You know why I brought this up? Last year, after reading too much health articles, I decided to cut the salt habit. No salt here no salt there. No more salt in my cola. Even for fries, I'd tell Mc to pack my fries before sprinkling salt. For Chinese and Japanese food, no more soy sauce.
A few months later, I felt very ill and weak, hardly the finger strength to lift a cup of tea. Then one day, I collapsed, semi-conscious. I was ambulanced to hospital and warded; salt deficiency and low blood pressure.
For two days and two nights in hospital bed, I was fed with nothing but potassium drip. We all know it's a salt just like sodium, better quality perhaps. By the third day, I was revitalised enough to take solid food.
While it's true I've overdone myself in the abstinence from salt, I think that the anti-salt health scare is being overdone too. Anyway, after discharge from hospital, I've gone back to my salt habits feeling fine.