Terrific article. I was diagnosed with congestive heart failure a few weeks ago and am limiting salt. Not that I use much anyway, but I have been buying yucky salt-free chips. Expensive. So I’ll just eat a few salted chips, enjoy them with nightly pre-dinner Kombucha, and forget to feel guilty.
There is a study about the relationship between sodium consumption and how long people live. If I recall correctly, the people who live longest are those who consume a lot more than the recommended amount of sodium.
Someone said that the component of salt that increases blood pressure is chlorine. If so, people could drink water with sodium.