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Seems there's been a campaign to reduce salt intake in the diet of humans, 
as too much may cause or precipitate heart attack.
  True, too much salt may be bad for you, but what is too much?  When we 
perspire, salt is present in the water of our sweat, and replacement is 
warranted.
  Fat, like salt, is also frowned on by diet faddists, yet Eskimos exist (or 
did) on a diet of nothing but fish, and seal meat.
  Heart attack and arteriosclerosis are more likely in old age, but can be 
precipitated at any time by excess cholesterol in the veins and arteries, 
like clogging of a plumbing system.
   And daily stress and tension can cause restriction of the arteries, etc, 
so cholesterol can't escape, leading to high blood pressure, stroke, heart 
attack, etc.  Calm, relaxed, and lazy folk are less prone to heart attack 
than tense active executive types, always on the go.  But this type of 
analysis doesn't fit in with the Work Ethic, and is seldom mentioned.
    Salt?  I'll continue to put it on my cold meat and salad, add it to my 
porridge, and so on.  A short life, but a merry one?