On 3/26/2010 3:45 PM, Krypsis wrote:
> On 27/03/2010 2:57 AM, J. Clarke wrote:
>
> <snip>
>>
>> So you were born into a family which has problems with salt and you want
>
> I was born into a family which has a predisposition to high BP. Whether
> it is genetic or not is yet to be proved.

So what other explanation is there, divine intervention?

> If the younger members of my
> extended family prove to be resistant through education on the use of
> salt in food, then it will prove something to me at least.

Yeah, that their illness can be controlled through diet.

>> the whole rest of the world to put up with legislation that solves your
>> personal problem.
>>
> I live in Australia, you live in the US, a country I have no intention
> of visiting in the foreseeable future.

There _is_ a God.

> legislation in YOUR country will
> have no effect on me whatsoever.

So you don't want salt banned where you are?

> As for personal problems, please be
> reminded that I do not have a problem with salt as I avoid its use where
> possible.

Yes, you do have a problem with salt. You may not be aware of it but
your continued ranting about it makes it clear to the rest of us that
you have a problem.

> You, however, may or may not have a problem with salt in YOUR
> future.

Not your kind of problem I won't.

> All I wish for in my country (Australia, remember!) is that it
> be easier for people such as I to easily avoid excesses of salt.

It is. Just don't eat packaged foods.

> It has
> already become much easier for people such as myself to avoid the
> effects of passive smoking through legislation so one lives in hope.

Oh, you're one of _those_ loons.