The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for April 16, 2024

As long as it’s just one grain you should be fine!

That was a salty answer.

But salt is essential, most foods are bland without salt. I’ve tried salt subs, blah!

But no more than that.

I usually get a second opinion but that idea works too!

Probably several grains of salt.

[More likely many.]

Salt is a preservative. He’ll need more than a grain if he doesn’t want to become Rancid!

Believe it or not, a doctor in a hospital once told me to consume more salt. I guess the fact that many tests had shown my arteries were completely clear made his direction a safe bet. It seems I needed the electrolyte of salt for fluid retention.

Brutus is the salt of the earth…

I think you’ll be ok with a “pinch” of salt. One grain seems too low. :)

Brutus is on a roll. First he leaves Mother Gargle nonplussed and now he leaves Gladys in the same state. Hurray Brutus!

Nice one Brutus. You da man. Even Gladys coffee snickered.

well okay, just make sure the food doesn’t already have any in it. :}

GUFFAW ! ! !

I’ve been on a low sodium diet since a heart attack in 2019. Honestly, I like it.

Brutus, knowing you, you’re more likely to drop the whole saltshaker on it.

Good one Brutus! As one on a restricted sodium diet I can tell you there’s nothing more frustrating than trying to stay within the daily limits of sodium. And if you’re a saltaholic, trying to quit cold turkey results in pretty bland food. Given how Gladys cooks, I’m guessing that salt is even more important to Brutus to make it through dinner! Not to mention lunches at the diner. Good luck, Brutus.

Any reduction is good, but I too like to salt my food for the flavor enhancement. He could reduce some of those saltladened products that might help, but in moderation only. What’s life if you can’t enjoy the taste of it…..

I have reason to question the link between salt and hypertension. The main proponent of “salt is bad for you” was Lewis Dahl.

Dahl claimed that he had “unequivocal” evidence that salt causes hypertension: he induced high blood pressure in rats by feeding them the human equivalent of 500 grams of sodium a day. (Today the average American consumes 3.4 grams of sodium, or 8.5 grams of salt, a day.) The absurd amounts he fed the rats didn’t really make sense with respect to a human correlation.

Dahl also discovered population trends that continue to be cited as strong evidence of a link between salt intake and high blood pressure. But as a paper pointed out several years later in the American Journal of Hypertension, scientists had little luck finding such associations when they compared sodium intakes within populations, which suggested that genetics or other cultural factors might be the culprit. There have been studies comparing salt intake vs hypertension in the US vs in Japan. Japan’s salt intake far exceeds that of the US, but their hypertension rates are much lower. Nevertheless, government and the medical establishment listened to Dahl and his zealous crusade against salt, which he was determined to pursue regardless of data (he had a personal aversion to salt).

Intersalt, a large study published in 1988, compared sodium intake with blood pressure in subjects from 52 international research centers and found no relationship between sodium intake and the prevalence of hypertension. In fact, the population that ate the most salt, about 14 grams a day, had a lower median blood pressure than the population that ate the least, about 7.2 grams a day.

I think Dahl was full of it.

nothing like a bit of salty humor… ☺

Only a grain, Brutus? :-)