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Why are salty foods addictive?

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The body needs to maintain its salinity in order for its tissues to function properly.

Sodium salts also stimulate the taste receptors in the tongue, enhancing flavors. As people age, they often find themselves putting more salt on their food because their taste receptors become less and less responsive.

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They close your mouths guard cells making you want to have more and when you have much salt you feel thristy.

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Because pretzels have salt sprinkled all over them. Next time you eat one pay attention to those little white crystals on them, those are salt crystals.

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Salt craving causes are pregnancy, dehydration, Addison disease and other illness.

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because of President Barack Obama

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