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Default Cooking pasta with salt and water


"HumBug!" > wrote in message
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> On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 22:56:52 -0500, "Christopher M."
> > wrote:
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>>I remember reading that a saltless diet can be very unhealthy.

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> On a junk science site??
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> There is WAY TOO MUCH salt in almost all processed foods, and even in many
> natural ones.
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> In fact, if you DON'T CHECK, you may be getting way too much salt in your
> food.
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> I didn't check, until I developed serious high blood pressure problems.
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> Now I SERIOUS watch everything I eat.


Sodium only affects about 10% of all people with high BP. I'm sorry that
you are one of them. I am not. Most of us are not. My diet is not overly
high in sodium. I have checked.