Salt is a very important component in our bodies. This is because it helps in maintaining healthy fluid levels, aid in transmitting nerve impulses throughout the body as well as ensuring proper muscle function.

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Could you have found yourself craving for salt so often probably more than normal and when you order chips, crips or popcorn you are good? Some of us are restless till they eat a salty food.

Here's why you crave for salty foods;

1. You are dehydrated

You can crave salty foods when your body do not have enough water. This is because your body do not have the desired level of fluids to function properly. This serves as a way of your body communication that it requires you to drink or eat more.

2. You are under a lot of stress

Your day's anxiety and stress makes your adrenal glands to produce less cortisol hormone as a way of responding to stress. It will tend to react both physically and emotionally towards different things and this makes you to crave for salty foods hence you end up eating more salt than you really need.

3. You have been working out intensely

As you sweat , the amount of salt in your body greatly decreases to a point where it needs being replenished. Due to this, you body will  crave salty foods in response to increase the sodium level in your body.