They ate things like salted meat which had an overload of salt, how come they didn’t have problems with high blood pressure?
I’m asking this because I recently discovered the papadams I eat with indian food have an insane amount of salt, and I’m having to become much more salt-conscious.
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Some people did. Lots of people had outdoor, labor-intensive occupations, in which salt intake is less of a problem.
Also, lots of modern processed food has a mind-blowing amount of salt in it for preservation and/or taste. That wouldn’t have been a thing a century ago, in terms of processed food. Sure, salted meats, but not the same way.
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