Hach, what have we pulled ourselves together with the salt shaker all these years: And only to read now: Complete nonsense. Salt is healthy!
Nutritional science is usually a caustic spoilage. You shouldn't be fat, you shouldn't be sugar, wheat bread is terrible, salt is incredibly evil, umami the plague and chips like all-encompassing culinary hell. But, broccoli, this bland something, broccoli is great, thank you so much. For nothing.
Salt is healthy
But there is hope for the relationship between nutritionists and the rest of the world because they were wrong (and they admit it). Recent studies suggest that salt is not as bad as expected. Or even better: certain amounts of salt are supposedly even healthy for the heart. This health aspect is apparently quite insignificant, but now we don't want to be petty and prefer to take the no less insignificant placebo effect with us.
Asian women eat a lot of salt
Before any game spoiler comes up with the idea that the healthy salt is just a pseudo-study that will be revised the day after tomorrow: We have evidence, namely living evidence. To be precise, damn long lives. The Japanese women who consume a lot of salt reach an average age of 86.6 years (whereas German women only live on average 83 years). With 11.7 grams per day and head, Japan is in second place worldwide behind China in terms of salt consumption. We simply assume that there is a connection. In any case, the white gold definitely cannot be too terrible. So bring the good stuff! And always in with it! Long live nutrition science!