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   Too much candy: Man dies from eating bags of black licorice   
      
   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 whack and caused the 54-year-old   
   man's heart to stop, doctors reported Wednesday.   
      
   "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.   
      
   The problem is glycyrrhizic acid, found in black licorice and in many   
   other foods and dietary supplements containing licorice root extract.   
   It can cause dangerously low potassium and imbalances in other   
   minerals called electrolytes.   
      
      
      
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