How does salt make you fat if it doesnt have any calories?

I heard salt is not good for your diet, besides high blood pressure..why not?...

I heard salt is not good for your diet, besides high blood pressure..why not?

D¤Money	makes you retain water makeing you gain water weight

Dan H	Salt doesn't make you fat, though it can cause you to retain water. However, salt intake can lead to high blood pressure and exacerbate diabetes among other things.

Rebecca Lynn	Salt retains alot of water. You gain water wieght & can also get dehydrated. Hope this helps! Good Luck with everything!

stanwshura	It does not make you fat.

MiMi Sugar	Salt makes you retain water and it has a lot to do with high blood pressure

cj baby	Well, it does open up your appetite... the more salt, the bigger your appetite will be and the more liquid you'll need in your body..

deemee	Salt causes you to retain water. It is not real weight, you'll pee it out within a day!

Kami	it dosen't make you fat, it lets the water comes under your skin, and it is not a good thing.

d	It's just the high blood pressure. It absorbs water. It's not that it's "not good" for your diet. It is "not good" for your diet if you consume it in excess. You must have salt to live. Eat all the salt you want until you are about 35. That's when you should start worrying about salt in your diet. Unless you're dumping heaping spoonfuls of salt onto everything you're eating, or unless you're eating nothing but junk food, you're fine. Oh, and drink a lot of water. It's good for your skin, your digestive system, your whole body, and it will help you a little bit in keeping fit.

honeytartine	Salt does not make you fat: it increases your blood pressure, which puts stress on your cardiovascular system.

HoffDNA	It doesn't make you fat, meaning it doesn't increase the amount of fat in your body, but yes, it does make you retain water in addition to the other health risks of excess sodium.

SubVana	Its good for getting rid of cramps thats all i know, but its also bad for your artaries too so that might make you fat i guess.

Big Kahuna	While salt does make food taste lots better - it causes a body to retain water. Water retention is not good for you but the good news is that water weight is the first weight you lose when you exercise.

Debbie M	Salt cause the body to retain fluid, and it raise Blood pressure over time in people who eat to much of it. So thats what it does......

xoTinaxo	it wont make u fat, but it will cause high blood pressure and combine with other problems that may cause u to become fat.

AutumnRose	Salt causes your body to hold in water so avoid foods with high sodium in them.

tangeray43	my mom's a nurse and she said you retain lots of water

Sonya	Salt makes you retain water which makes you look fatter.

?	Salt makes you retain water.

nita	It makes you retain water and that makes you bloated.

Mama Mia	Salt is good to use in moderation. Just don't use as much as a blow/puffer fish does, or you will just bloat and float, and so will your pressure! :>)

lala	salt helps the fat stick together

momoftwo	Water retention. However we need salt because of the Iodine. Without Iodine you can retain weight also.

alpla	Water shadows salt. You eat too much you retain fluid. And doesn't make you fat; gives the appearance of if you swell up.

bella	Makes you retain water

BeachBeauty	Salt has an affect on how much water your body retains. You want water to cleanse, not to add to your body weight. Salt is bad for blood pressure and cholesterol and aids in being bloated. It does not necessarily have a direct affect on gaining pounds, but doesn't necessarily help you lose any.

Carol B	It makes you retain water.

awtybird	salts good for ya, it hardens your arteries!!

D'lo	Because it makes your body retain water.

tlcats	Causes your body to store water to "de-salinate" your system.

Em C	It doesn't make you fat really, but it does tend to swell your body up because it holds more water it. That is why when you eat something high in salt you can gain a lot of weight when you put yourself on the scale, but once you flush out all that salt from your system you appear to have lost weight, you didn't really lose fat, just water.