RE: The sorry story of salt, and how we got fooled, again!
I have found that choosing the highest nutritionally dense foods that we have available to us and then not overconsuming or underconsuming it is a collection of learned skills. Of course the nutritional ratios of vital minerals, vitamins and enzymes are different for each person, so we start with a good foundation of base knowledge and then start fine tuning. This also means that we need to build personal evaluation skills at the same time, so that we can respond to and make adjustments to our biological fueling practices as we go. We need to be able to read what our bodies are communicating to us and then make adjustments to our practices as we go. The first step is to look at each critical component like sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium and understand what each does why makes those components are essential and vital to life. Thank you for "un-demonizing" salt and suggesting that it is a component that requires respect with use. It is a great discussion topic. We're are dead without it and dead if we take in too much.
I believe that the more we eat real food, and can feel what it does in our bodies, the more likely we are to eat appropriately. Not always of course, because we can still be addicted to real food. But with real food, we can actually taste what the salt does, and I think are less likely to overdo it.
I completely agree.