High Blood Pressure and Salt, What is the Big Deal?

Well we all know the answer to that one don’t we boys and girls? It’s an essential chemical compound (Sodium Chloride that is) needed for sustainable life and without your mums cooking wouldn’t taste so good right? Most people think of Salt purely in terms of that little white food seasoning found in shakers on virtually very food table the world over. Well in reality, salt is a little bit more complicated than just this but certainly does play an important role in our day to day lives. Salt has been an important commodity over the past few millennia. Wars have been fought over Salt supplies and certainly the capture of a nation’s Salt supplies has certainly played an important part in the nature of military campaigns. Salt has inspired literature and many of View the rest of this article