I'm curious about various folks' takes on the eating of salt. I'm reading the Schwarzbein principle, and she's again' it.

Who here does not use salt? What evidence is there that it's bad for us? How the heck can you stomach meat and eggs without it? (I don't put it on fruit, veggies, or cottage cheese, but I cannot imagine an unsalted omelet...eww.)

Do people who claim they don't add salt also buy unsalted butter? Avoid cheese, olives, soy sauce and everything else salty? There are tremendous levels of salt in all those foods.

We evolved as nomads following routes out of Africa along the coasts, first of the Middle East, then Asia, eventually to the Americas...so we must have had salt all along and evolved to metabolize it.... On the other hand, if Mother Nature wanted eggs to be salty, she'd have made them salty, eh? I'm having a paleo dilemma, here.

I can't imagine a life without it. My not-overweight grandfather was told to eliminate it once...and lost 21 pounds in a month cuz food tasted so awful (which probably helped kill him, poor guy!) But does my reluctance to let it go mean that I should let it go? (My whining here sounds like addictive talk to me!)

Thoughts, links to reliable web sites or scientific references would be appreciated. Thank you all!