A few friends of mine told me that salt provides zeronutritional value to us, and in fact can harm our bodies. Now,these guys are medical students, and being an engineering studentmyself, I decided not to argue with them. The rest of this questionassumes that this fact is true, so if it's not, you can just goahead and call me out now...
So here's my understanding of things: we 'like' doing thingsbecause of our instincts, which have slowly become refined overmillions of years. For example, I 'like' eating foods with fat init because my instinct compels me to do so. Fat is 'good' for mybody, since it provides a lot of energy (obesity problemsaside).
So are there certain things, such as eating salt, that are notin fact beneficial in any way, and we only do these things becausewe were trained to as children? This is the only thing I could comeup with, but it's not a very satisfying explanation for a fewreasons. First, I think humans have been eating salt for a longtime. This would mean that most likely, it is actually our'instinct' to eat salt. Also, salt is eaten in every culture today,which has the same implication.
So is there some better explanation?
A few friends of mine told me that salt provides zeronutritional value to us, and in fact can harm our bodies. Now,these guys are medical students, and being an engineering studentmyself, I decided not to argue with them. The rest of this questionassumes that this fact is true, so if it's not, you can just goahead and call me out now...
So here's my understanding of things: we 'like' doing thingsbecause of our instincts, which have slowly become refined overmillions of years. For example, I 'like' eating foods with fat init because my instinct compels me to do so. Fat is 'good' for mybody, since it provides a lot of energy (obesity problemsaside).
So are there certain things, such as eating salt, that are notin fact beneficial in any way, and we only do these things becausewe were trained to as children? This is the only thing I could comeup with, but it's not a very satisfying explanation for a fewreasons. First, I think humans have been eating salt for a longtime. This would mean that most likely, it is actually our'instinct' to eat salt. Also, salt is eaten in every culture today,which has the same implication.
So is there some better explanation?
