Man dies after addiction to licorice caused his heart to stop – NEWS.com.au

A construction worker has died after his daily licorice habit cost him his life.The 54-year-old US man from Massachusetts was at a fast-food restaurant last year when he suffered a sudden cardiac arrest.
He was taken to hospital but had died the following day.
The unnamed man was eating more than a bag a day of the treat, over a few weeks, when he suddenly lost consciousness, a study published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine stated.
Doctors wrote that he had “a poor diet, con…

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