I think he was just so desperate for acceptance from anyone that it clouded his judgment so he went along with it, just look at how he responded still trying to seem cool to the guy who tricked him into bricking all his electronics.
Eh yeah but it's a lot easier and quicker to reverse the adverse effects of long-term over consumption of sodium than sugar, you just abstain from salty foods and eat right and flush all the toxins out by drinking a lot of water for a lil while. Something ya really should do periodically anyway for general health. With regard to damage done to your body sodium and sugar shouldn't even be in the same conversation, especially if that convo is about losing fat.
Sodium isn't really bad for you. Infinitely, infinitely, infinitely better to binge on sodium every so often than it is to binge on sugar, which everyone already puts too much of in their bodies to begin with.
For your health.
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