I'm interested in this subject all of a sudden. I've gone on the record
as saying that I like salt. Now I'm wondering if a person's taste for
salt can change and what would make it change.


I always used to buy salted butter. Now it tastes too salty for me. My
first guess was that the producer was adding more salt and that I might
change brands. Instead, I switched to unsalted which was easier than
experimenting.


Next, I spent 3 weeks in Fort Lauderdale. (Work for Jim, and a visit to
my parents, followed by an extra week involving a 9-1-1 call and the
removal of Jim's gall bladder.) As a rule, the restaurants were great.
We found 3 cute little French restaurants that I loved and kept going
back to. Maybe they used a tad more salt than I do at home, but I'm
used to restaurants doing that. Then we ate at a Thai restaurant where
the added salt made one of the dishes inedible. I did the best I could
and ate around that dish.


It took me a while to put it together, but the next day, my jeans didn't
fit. I go back and forth between a 6 and an 8 and had a pair of each
with me. I don't consider it any big deal when I wear the 8s for a
while, but when I get too big for the 8s, I wonder what's going on.
True I'd been eating out a lot, but I'd been swimming every day too
which is excellent exercise.


Then the lightbulb went on. The salt. I wasn't gaining weight; I was
gaining water. I'm home now and planning a low-salt diet for a while.


--Lia