Comments about ‘Salt-potassium ratio may trump blood pressure for heart disease’

Wonderful article, but with terrible news. I read it on a day I had eaten much more salt than I normally do, and was wishing I had access to potassium to offset it. If an imbalance in salt intake is responsible for 50 percent of the public dying quicker in a 15-year period, doesn't that make it one of the most deadly drugs we can take? It should then, most surely, be taken off FDA's safe list.

Read some more, finding one website suggesting we could save 150,000 lives a year if we cut salt consumption in half. Read a USA Today article with a quote saying salt is the most harmful element in our food supply. . . .
But, then this: Scientific American indicates it is all bunk. Salt is not a known harmful substance, at all. Google "It's time to end the war on salt" and go sprinkle as much of the stuff as you want on that hamburger.