Salt: How Bad Is It, Really? | TIME.com

Salt: How Bad Is It, Really? | TIME.com.

In the end then, there may be no simple answers. Researchers and public health officials who support population-wide efforts to curb sodium intake have a vast body of evidence to support their point of view. For decades now, they can say, we have seen studies that suggest — but, yes, they only suggest — that salt is deadly. And those who don’t support efforts to curb salt consumption can claim, often correctly, that the evidence against salt is merely suggestive.

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