A Massachusetts construction worker’s love of black licorice wound up costing him his life. Eating a bag and a half every day for a few weeks threw his nutrients out of balance and caused the 54-year-old man’s heart to stop, doctors reported.
“Even a small amount of licorice you eat can increase your blood pressure a little bit,” said Dr Neel Butala, a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who described the case in the New England Journal of Medicine… More here.
A sad story, but seriously how does anyone eat liquorice? It’s vile.
The article states it was an extreme case. Obviously.
Visit Holland where a lot of Dutch licorice (drop) is eaten, salty, sweet, hard soft and in loads of other ways. I grew up with it and I love the stuff, mind you, Dutch licorice is very different from English licorice.
It can’t be any worse!😳