“diseases linked to excessive salt consumption”
Well, yeah, they say that, then they usually change their tune every five years or so. So excuse me if I don’t take it too seriously.
Plus, I watched my grandparents live to a ripe old age eating bland low salt food on their doctor’s orders and I think I’d rather go out a decade earlier and enjoy some flavor in the meantime.
“NOBODY adds 10gams of salt to their food daily.”
What about sailors on the high seas in the age of adventure? :P
I scrub my cast iron skillet out with kosher salt. That’s way more salt than I would ever eat in one day.
“I watched my grandparents live to a ripe old age eating bland low salt food on their doctor’s orders and I think I’d rather go out a decade earlier and enjoy some flavor in the meantime.”
My grand dad had retired at age 65 and loved his salt. However, his daughters, including my mother nagged him about him taking a salt shaker to work to get salt with his lunch.
They nagged him until he died in his mid 70’s.
My summer before my senior year in college, I lived with my grandmother. She had a great garden and was a good cook. I often bought meat for our dinner and grilled it. I used a lot of salt, and on Friday or Saturday, I made a pizza for dinner with salt. She loved her salt and told me not to tell her daughters/including my mother.
When I got ready to go back to college, my sister was at granny’s for the ride to our college. I took both of them out to dinner, the last night at granny’s..
Our grandmother was the Queen of home fried chicken, and she wanted to go to the KFC. So we went, ate dinner there and bought her a mini bucket to dine on after we went off to college. She told all of her friends and even her daughters how good the KFC chicken was.
One of my male cousins was starting a pizza business. When he came to visit her, he bought a good supply of his pizzas for there and her after he went back to college/work.
She passed in her mid 70’s in 1962. A full life and lots of good food cooked by her and as a thank yous from her GK’s, KFC and pizza.