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Salt

A recent item on our local news advised that a British group is endeavouring to have the amount of salt in food reduced. The question is why, why do manufacturers add salt? The answer to that is, because it improves the taste; it tastes good. Why does it taste good? Because our bodies need salt, salt is an important ingredient to a functioning healthy body. When I was still a young man and living with my parents (over 50 years ago) my Mother read an article that said salt was not good and so she reduced our salt intake. This was fine until I came home ill one day suffering severe cramps and vomiting and even passing out several times. My parents rushed me to the doctor who looked me over and told my parents to go over the road to the Chemist shop and buy me some salt tablets, on taking two my condition improved rapidly. Salt is necessary for the body to retain fluid and not become dehydrated, which is why we provide salt lick for livestock. Salt is so essential that in ancient times th