Anthony Joshua has revealed cutting salt and sugar from his diet helped him regain his heavyweight world titles. Joshua was dropped four times and stopped by Andy Ruiz Jr last summer before changing his game plan to exact revenge in Saudi Arabia six months later.
Joshua overhauled his training plan before the rematch but also dropped his weight by 10lb by making subtle changes to his nutritional plan. "I did cut out salt leading up to that fight but the food was so bland!" he told Men's Health. "You don’t realise how much we depend on salts and sugars.
When you remove them, you realise what the true taste of food is like. It had a real benefit, though, because it stripped my body of all the excess sugar and salt I didn’t need, and I