Unintended consequences...
Jul. 1st, 2012 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daveonSodium Chloride gets a bad press. It can be a trigger for elevated blood pressure and it generally gets a bad rap for pre-packaged problems.
However, a guilty pleasure of mine is Restaurant Impossible where the improbably small headed Robert Irvine tries to fix broken restaurants. The last few have had chefs saying, but what about people who can't eat salt!
So... just to be clear. There is a difference between a few grammes of salt in every serving of you cornflakes, or a slice of bread and having a fraction of that amount seasoning the food you eat. You can't cook without at least a little salt and pepper - honestly, I watch my salt content - in fact, I rarely use salt for anything. But a sprinkle of salt into a meal you're making or on meat makes the difference between something that you can eat and you can't.
That doesn't mean that you're like my dad who, literally, wanted a teaspoon of salt on his dinner.
But for crying out loud people. You have to have the stuff to live. Like all things in life, use in moderation.
However, a guilty pleasure of mine is Restaurant Impossible where the improbably small headed Robert Irvine tries to fix broken restaurants. The last few have had chefs saying, but what about people who can't eat salt!
So... just to be clear. There is a difference between a few grammes of salt in every serving of you cornflakes, or a slice of bread and having a fraction of that amount seasoning the food you eat. You can't cook without at least a little salt and pepper - honestly, I watch my salt content - in fact, I rarely use salt for anything. But a sprinkle of salt into a meal you're making or on meat makes the difference between something that you can eat and you can't.
That doesn't mean that you're like my dad who, literally, wanted a teaspoon of salt on his dinner.
But for crying out loud people. You have to have the stuff to live. Like all things in life, use in moderation.
