Too much salt may hit immune system

摘要

EATING too much salt may impair the body's ability to fight bacterial infections, according to studies in mice and in 10 people. Christian Kurts at the University Hospital of Bonn in Germany and his team first showed that mice given a high-salt diet were less able to fight kidney infections caused by £ coli and body-wide infections due to listeria monocytogenes, a source of food poisoning.