You've seen the headlines all week, that the FDA wants less salt in our food. The people who run the companies that load their products with sodium squeal like stuck pigs when this happens, and, invariably, the editors illustrate the piece with a picture of a salt shaker.
Goddamn it, the salt shaker in your kitchen and on your table IS NOT THE PROBLEM. The problem is the salt that's in the cans and boxes of processed crap you warm up in the microwave, and in the industrial sludge you eat in restaurants. All that stuff has way too much salt. You may think you're eating a healthy breakfast if you're putting unsalted butter on whole wheat toast, but there's a good chance you're ingesting 400 mg of sodium nonetheless, whereas a boiled egg, even when it's liberally sprinkled with salt, will
cost you less than 100.
But that's beside the point. Salt is not the enemy. Salt is good for you. Human bodies need salt; the cardiologists have finally admitted as much. Good grief. It's not "salt" or "sodium" that kills ya, it's the sewage.
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