On Thu, 05 May 2011 21:06:52 -0700 in rec.food.cooking, isw
> wrote,
>
>As I understand it, as explained by my doctor: For *some* people, it is
>"all about the salt". For most folks, though, dietary salt has little to
>no effect on blood pressure.

Or in other words, it's a genetic trait. Some people are sensitive
to salt and get high blood pressure from it that can kill us. Some
people are not. Which is what makes it so damned offensive when
somebody who doesn't have that problem says "It didn't bother me,
so stop bitching about salt."