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TAKE IT WITH A GRAIN OR MORE

For decades, a long time, in this house, we have made our vows about salt. Till death do us part.

That is, we had decided that if and/or when the day came we had to curtail salt, we would jump ship and use it no matter what "they" thought it was doing for us.

Did you ever have a boiled egg without salt? Impossible.

What about any entree or snack?

Well, I don't put salt on pieces of fruit although I know some folks who do.

Looming over our taste for salt has been this bogeyman. The idea that salt kills. Salt destroys. Salt will give you a fucking heart attack! Screams inserted here.

Now, once again, common dietary wisdom is trumped with some actual research.

Panel Finds No Benefit in Sharply Restricting Sodium

Salt joins the long line of things that are good then condemned then, well if not good, OK again.

I know. It is just a case of cherry picking the data but it is not too much of a reach.

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