Japanese medical research, which lasted for 11 years and included 40,000 people, aimed to reveal the effect of different foods on the risk of stomach cancer.
Salt appeared as the biggest culprit in this story.
But the most dangerous thing is that the excessive use of salt in smokers increases the risk of infection by a large percentage, The research added that consuming regular amounts of fresh vegetables and fruits can combat this problem.
Stomach cancer is the third biggest cancer killer and the fifth most common cancer in the world