Yup, good science shows that potassium is far more important than people seem to generally realize but people have been so busy demonizing salt for so long that

Yup, good science shows that potassium is far more important than people seem to generally realize but people have been so busy demonizing salt for so long that it's sunk into the collective consciousness of all those people who don't care to keep up on the good quality science being done in the area of nutrition lately. (There's a lot of crappy "studies" being done in this area which are unfortunately diluting the facts). Potassium is also the link between high vegetable intake and proven health benefits, not necessarily the vegetables themselves and you can get that potassium in other ways without having to eat like a cow every day.