> I thought that was a myth of the past. Salt consumption has almost zero to do with blood pressure. Not accurate. Salt affects different people differently.

> I thought that was a myth of the past. Salt consumption has almost zero to do with blood pressure. Not accurate. Salt affects different people differently. But for many people, it raises their blood pressure substantially, but only transiently, much like caffeine. For most people the root cause of high blood pressure is going to be weight or lack of exercise, absent other risk factors. So if your morning blood is normally 100 / 60, then reasonable quantities of salt aren't going to raise your blood pressure enough for long enough to cause vascular damage. But if your baseline blood pressure is closer to pre-hypertensive or worse, then eating too much salt is going to raise your blood pressure enough to cause artery damage, and eventually heart disease.