Medical headline of the day

Nanny state is going to keep salt out of your food...

The FDA plans to work with the food industry and health experts to gradually reduce the salt consumed each day by Americans. The initiative, when launched later this year, would eventually lead to the first legal limits on the amount of salt allowed in food.

Guess they never heard of salt shakers...
or Patis (aka fish sauce or Soy sauce...

Actually, Asian salt consumption is twice that of the US, which is why we have so much high blood pressure...but in Zimbabwe the poor, who had little salt in their diet, rarely had high blood pressure, whereas it was common in the richer who ate a European foods with their diet, and very high in West Africa, where seafood consumption is common.

Jennifer Lockett's podcast notes that the Romans used it too...it was called garum......more here