The Healthy Home Economist
The Feds are at it again. This time, if they have their way, the amount of salt in food will soon become highly restricted, perhaps the modern manifestation of the ancient salt routes, which during the Dark and Medieval Ages, lined the pockets of the rich and greatly harmed the peasants who were unable to procure enough to maintain health. Of course, the FDA push to control the sodium content of food is cloaked in the argument that low salt diets are beneficial to health.This is simply not so. Low salt diets are harmful to health and there is plenty of compelling research that backs this up.
