Mark Carroll's Journal

By my understanding, salt causing elevated blood pressure is a much less scary issue than people think.

If you're not predisposed to it, there's no problem. If you are, it can raise your blood pressure. But if you cut back on salt, it then drops again. The main risk is that the high blood pressure migth go undiagnosed.

If you eat bucketloads of salt all at once, you die.

The other potential risks from salt are scarier, but far from proven.