How do salts/salty foods make a person fat?

Question

I thought salts are minerals and are needed by the body. Can a person really gain weight by eating salts/salty foods?

Answer 1

the salt helps stor fat thay work yogether tage team stile to slow your motabulisum andthat makes you stor mor fat

Answer 2

Salty food aid in the retention of water in your body. If you watch boxing or wrestling, most of these guys can weigh in about 10 to 15 pounds lower than what they actually weigh. Salt is a big part of that.

Answer 3

"Most of the bodys weight gain is through consuming too many carbohydrates "And" saturated fats."


Your Right!" the body does need some sodium to maintain proper diets." But" Salt is also a factor for high blood pressure and heart disease if consumed constantly."

Answer 4

it is not the salt that makes a person fat, is is what it causes the body to do, Satl leaches water from the body and one must drink water to help ride the body of it, in turn it causes the body to swell, but most of the time you will lose the excess weight when your body purifies it and exits during removal process...if not is causes the body to store it in your body fat and there for you gain weight

Answer 5

It doesn't make you fat. But it does make you retain fluid. Wherever sodium goes, water follows. So if you eat a lot of saltly foods, you get thirsty, you drink and retain.

Answer 6

Salt makes you retain water, and it drives up your blood pressure.

Answer 7

The kidney will bloat and will give stone trouble, thereby your heart will suffer and you don't like to move very much that you'll retain more fluid than dispensing it.

Answer 8

eating a lot of salt tends to make you retain fluids there for you are bigger

Answer 9

eat a lot of salty food and you'll end up like these people
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A55CzcYl7qQ

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2jtRWFOd04