If you’re a smoker and a snacker, it may be time to finally ‘just say no’ or read your nutrition labels more closely. A new study found that smokers who eat a lot of salty foods more than doubled their risk of rheumatoid arthritis.
Researchers from Sweden’s Umea University released their findings earlier this month in the journal Rheumatology. According to Reuters, the study set out to find if a high-salt diet was linked to the development of rheumatoid arthritis in general, but after observing participants’ dietary habits, fitness, smoking and other social factors, the link was only found in the smokers.
The Painful Link Between Smoking & Salty Foods was originally published on blackdoctor.org
