Shock new study claims eating more salt could cause you to LOSE weight

According to a shocking new study, eating salt could increase weight loss.

For a long time now salt has had a reputation for being a “dangerous” food ingredient, but the new research claimed Russian cosmonauts were hungrier when they ate more salt because their bodies turned fat into water.

Among other things, salt can also aid with sleep, reduce stress, improve digestion, and even help ward off allergy attacks.

It's widely-thought that eating too salt much can increase weight as the body retains more water, with nutritionists advise that more than 6g of salt a day can severely affect health.

But German researcher Dr. Jens Titze may have quashed that theory.

Titze undertook tests on Russian cosmonauts on the Mir space station.

He noticed that despite eating more salt on set days, the space adventurers drank less water.

Which goes against previously-held beliefs that eating more salt causes someone to drink more.

Despite taking on less water, the crew were still urinating similar amounts – meaning water was being produced without drinking.

Titze added: “There was only one way to explain this phenomenon.

The cosmonauts bodies were breaking down fat to produce fluids.

“The body most likely had generated or produced water when salt intake was high.”

His research also found that mice ate 25 per cent more just to maintain their weight when they ate more salt.

Researchers at the elite Harvard University say the new findings are “fascinating”.

Dr. Melanie Hoenig, an assistant professor of medicine at the American university, told the New York Times: “This is just very novel and fascinating.

“The work suggests that we really do not understand the effect of sodium chloride on the body.”