One author says: "Another reason is that the body absolutely needs some salt for various purposes and this need causes a craving for it." This craving for salt is pure fiction. It exists only in the imagination of salt eaters. If these people will do without salt long enough to recover from their perversion, they will discover that both the need and the craving for salt are fictions. He says: "The craving for salt is so deeply rooted in human beings that no other condiment is able to replace salt satisfactorily."

The amount of salt used by peoples and individuals is in no sense correlated with any need for salt, but with custom and individual taste.

He says: "Children take much less salt than adults, not only because they eat less food but also because their craving for salt is considerably less." Young smokers also crave less tobacco than hardened perverts. The salt-eating habit is progressive. Increasing dullness of the sense of salt, caused by salt using, calls for increasing quantities of salt to give the desired taste to the food.