> Like saturated fat, salt has been incorrectly demonized in the course of propping up ill-conceived modern dietary standards. The history actually runs in the

> Like saturated fat, salt has been incorrectly demonized in the course of propping up ill-conceived modern dietary standards. The history actually runs in the other direction - step one was that someone decided that salt was bad, and step two was that a bunch of dietary standards were created to express the revealed truth that salt was bad. The demonization is the beginning of the process and was done for its own sake.