On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Hans Kylberg wrote:

> Once You stop eating salt You get rid of that taste, so I think it
> is just a bad habit, deeply embedded in our culture. It probably
> started with use of salt for preservation.

I wish that were true for me, because I have a very strong liking
for salt, which is much harder for me to resist than sugar.  I
have succeeded in abstaining from salt for lengthy periods of
time, but I have never lost the desire for it, and I at least
imagine that I feel better when I get it.  This is probably
because when I go without salt I gradually lose interest in food
altogether.  I have in the past perversely used this anorexia as
a weight-reduction strategy, but it's not very pleasant.

I do not have a problem with high blood pressure, as long as I
restrict my carb intake.  When my pressure was high, avoiding
salt didn't lower it; when it became normal, eating salt didn't
raise it.

Todd Moody
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