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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Two new studies add to a growing pile of evidence that a salt-heavy diet can spur the development or worsening of autoimmune diseases. These ailments, which include multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, and psoriasis, result from an immune system gone haywire that attacks the body instead of germs.
Medical investigators have long searched for environmental triggers to explain the spike in many such diseases over the last half-century in Western countries. The too-much-salt hypothesis is an attractive one, given the simultaneous rise in the popularity of processed and other "fast" foods which, as we all know, often come loaded with sodium. The evidence is fast becoming clear that there is some connection between salt and these disorders.
http://www.mensjournal.com/health-f...iets-can-lead-to-autoimmune-diseases-20130828
Medical investigators have long searched for environmental triggers to explain the spike in many such diseases over the last half-century in Western countries. The too-much-salt hypothesis is an attractive one, given the simultaneous rise in the popularity of processed and other "fast" foods which, as we all know, often come loaded with sodium. The evidence is fast becoming clear that there is some connection between salt and these disorders.
http://www.mensjournal.com/health-f...iets-can-lead-to-autoimmune-diseases-20130828