> The problem is that there are a large number of people who literally
>believe that salt is unhealthy in any amount and should be removed from
>their diet entirely.

Most of Those people are misinformed....even some nutrttion teachers
are<grin>
> The 'low sodium' trend has actually been blamed in part for an increase
>in goiter and other thyroid ailments in Australia. They have iodized salt
>as well, but it's become unfashionable to consume salt. The other factors
>identified were a decrease in seafood consumption and relaxed dairy
>sanitation regulations that no longer require that holding tanks for milk
>be sterilized with iodine.

.> You can't always apply logic to the things humans do. There's an
axiom
>in marketing that people don't want things that are healthy, they want
>things that they believe are healthy. Sometimes people do things that are
>just dumb

Peoples opinion are sometimes attributed to be the cause of their
demise<grin>.



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