Eating more salt might save your life? Not so much

Salt

Maybe just a small sprinkle

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Newspaper headlines might lead you to wrongly believe that paradigm shifts in the world of nutrition occur regularly. Barely a week goes by without someone proclaiming that everything we know about diet needs turning on its head.

Despite this, one truth has remained pretty much accepted. Keeping our intake of salt down to around 6 grams per day is generally accepted as good for health, and features in dietary advice worldwide.

Clearly this has left a gap in the market, because nothing attracts attention more than questioning the nutritional orthodoxy. Enter James DiNicolantonio, a

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