The Shaker

One recent study claims that the amount of salt most people consume is okay for heart health, but too little may be as bad as too much. Almost everyone agrees that for some people, salt does increase blood pressure.
            A second study estimates that sodium contributes to over a million and a half deaths a year. Now can you tell me how they figured that out? Unless they examine thousands and thousands of cadavers, how in the heck would they know? Thinking they died from this or that doesn’t make it so. However, if they did a few autopsies, the examiner might say, “Yep, he died from too much salt. Has he been swimming in the ocean…or was he a Shaker?”