Combatants in the Great Salt Debate divide into two camps with radically different views. One believes that we eat too much salt and should reduce our intake (a lot). The other believes that we eat too much salt and should reduce our intake (a bit). The weapons for each side are research papers that prove their point, and angry scorn for the “flawed” research that doesn’t.
The health journalist Claudia Hammond and her team at the BBC’s World Service recently convened a panel of professors (of cardiology, chemistry and health economics) to bring calm elucidation to this complex subject, plus a food historian (me) for some history.
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