Love to eat crispy roasted nuts and potato wafers that are high in salt? In mice, the high-salt diet reduced the resting cerebral blood flow by 28% in the cortex and 25% in the hippocampus – brain regions involved in learning and memory. Eating too much salt can lead to high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke. Rodents that only ate the high-salt diet developed dementia, and performed significantly worse on an object recognition test, a maze test and nest. It appears to counteract the cerebrovascular and cognitive effects of a high-salt diet,” explained Giuseppe Faraco, assistant professor at the varsity.

Source: Hindustan Times January 17, 2018 10:18 UTC