re: #206 SteveC

A NewsBabe on Fox was reporting on recommendations from the American Heart Association for living longer. Story concludes, she chuckles “Don’t drink, don’t smoke, less than 1500 milligrams of salt a day? Not me!”

Honey, that’s normal for a lot of your viewers. Wait until your health goes in the shitter, you’ll do a lot of things that you think you won’t do.

I quit smoking several years ago, after a long, long struggle, and haven’t looked back. It’s bad for you, mmmkay? And you get nothing in return from it. I drink, but not much - maybe a bottle of wine every couple of weeks, and probably half of that gets poured down the sink ‘cause I don’t feel like finishing it.

Salt…well, I’m probably bad about that. But I do most of my cooking from scratch. And there’s actually some question over whether salt is all that bad for you. Some people are sensitive to it, and for them it boosts blood pressure, but it turns out this is rather rare; most people can severely restrict their salt intake and see no change in their blood pressure. So unless I see a problem, I put on as much salt as I think a meal needs.