Is Salt To Blame For Your Food Cravings?
Do you feel compelled to add an extra pinch of salt to your foods even before you taste them, chances are you’ve got an addiction to salt.
But rather than adding salt to food for the added spice it gives to your food, you’re probably adding it to because it puts you in a better mood.
I bet you never thought of that?
But according to researchers in the University of Iowa people who go with out salt can become depressed. They found that salt puts people in as better mood and creates cravings comparable to a drug addiction.
Although some salt in needed in the body to help fluids pass through the body too much can cause health problems like high blood pressure and heart disease.
Professor Kim Johnson who did tests on rats found that when salt levels were lowered they lost that pleasure in things like a sugary drink. They also noticed a similar change in brain activity when the rats were denied drugs.
“This suggests that salt need and cravings may be linked to the same brain pathways as those related to drug addiction and abuse,” Prof Johnson said.
While some people out there may say that obesity is a matter of poor will power it seems that manufacturers of food are designing food to become more addictive and salt seems to be a great way of doing this.
While we all know the dangers of eating too much sugary foods, salt hasn’t gotten as much press until lately, with ads on British TV highlighting the fact of high salt content in foods.
But you need to become more aware of this because salt is now being added to almost all types of food and camouflaged with high levels of sugar to sweeten the taste.
This is probably why a portion of salty French fries tastes so good when its washed down with your favorite soda drink. The salt give us a initial hit and heightens the feeling for the sugary taste of the soda.
If you think about it we’ve allowed our food to dictate to us what we should eat rather than the other way around.
So the next time you get a craving for something sweet think back, was that last food that I ate high in salt content?
Chances are it was, and know you know where that cravings coming from.
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