Here's an article that may make you give serious consideration to cutting down on your salt intake

but as usual it doesn't explain that this would reduce excess weight...)o:

However, it does mention that quite a lot of the diseases associated with obesity would be reduced by cutting down on salt.

See Eating a Bit Less Salt Can Be a Big Health Boon
article in Time magazine

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, heart attack, vascular dementia, stroke, osteopenia, osteoporosis, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, liver and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs, hunger or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better! See my website www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk
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Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

And see Sodium in foods