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What you say makes no sense. It makes no sense that "prior to modern prepackaged food", throughout the hundreds of thousands of years that anatomically modern h

What you say makes no sense. It makes no sense that "prior to modern prepackaged food", throughout the hundreds of thousands of years that anatomically modern humans have existed, we needed salt in our diet "badly". If we did, we would have died out as a species, because for most of the time we existed we did not have access to salt. We had no salt mines, no salt flats, etc etc. What makes a lot more sense is that we can get all the sodium we need from the food we eat, given a balanced and varied diet, like the omnivores that we are. In fact, this is the only thing that makes sense: that our bodies are tuned to our natural diet and that we can get enough nutrition from the food our bodies expect without the need for any additives. So let's be honest here: the only reason that modern people salt their food is for the taste, and nothing else (not even preservation is an issue anymore, with modern refrigeration technology). Which is fine and dandy, but not when it becomes an obsession and it causes overconsumption that can cause health problems.

b112 4y ago
We have an extensive salt trade going back through all of recorded history, along with most people living near the ocean. Salt used to be extremely expensive, and there have even been wars fought over the salt trade. As cited elsewhere in this thread, birth defects, and health issues abound without idodine too, which is why iodised salt is a law in many countries. Through most of history, you ate salt water fish and also shellfish, or became sickly, and died. Please do a little research. This isn't a guess, it's fact.
- cheese_goddess 4y ago
  It's nonsense is what it is. Do you think the steppe nomads ate "salt water fish and also sellfish"? The people who lived in mountains, in the center of Europe or Africa and far away from sea? Recorded history is 5000 years btw but we've been around for more than 200,000 years, and most people definitely did not live near the ocean for all that period. Instead of telling me to "do a little research" you show me what "research" you did that supports your preposterous ideas.

b112 4y ago

We have an extensive salt trade going back through all of recorded history, along with most people living near the ocean. Salt used to be extremely expensive, and there have even been wars fought over the salt trade. As cited elsewhere in this thread, birth defects, and health issues abound without idodine too, which is why iodised salt is a law in many countries. Through most of history, you ate salt water fish and also shellfish, or became sickly, and died. Please do a little research. This isn't a guess, it's fact.

cheese_goddess 4y ago
It's nonsense is what it is. Do you think the steppe nomads ate "salt water fish and also sellfish"? The people who lived in mountains, in the center of Europe or Africa and far away from sea? Recorded history is 5000 years btw but we've been around for more than 200,000 years, and most people definitely did not live near the ocean for all that period. Instead of telling me to "do a little research" you show me what "research" you did that supports your preposterous ideas.