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I think I'll adopt a new slogan for Megaheart.com

"We were no-salt, before no-salt was popular."

For the past seventeen years we've seen only media articles that salt was okay, salt was needed, sea salt was healthy, etc. Now, sneaking in the backdoor we see that the medical and food science world are in fact catching on to our message. Salt is damaging and not just for our hearts. It kills, wounds, dissipates human energy. Just like we've been telling them.

Two years before the NIH promoted the DASH diet, which was so close to ours in our No Salt, Lowest Sodium Cookbook that I was personally floored. We had already reached the market via the Web and through our St. Martin's published No-Salt cookbook. Yet, even with all their hype for the DASH diet the media still promoted "fats" as the only problem with foods. I was turned down for TV and radio interviews and even by our local newspaper for discussions concerning no salt, except for two national magazines that specialized in heart health and nutrition health.

Now, quite suddenly, as though it's been a mystery all these years, the medical and food science media and some of the general media are catching on and behaving as though they invented the solutions for strokes, heart failure, Meniere's Syndrome, liver ailment, nephrotic syndrome, etc. Of course none of us invented that. Nature took care of it early on by placing just enough sodium in naturally grown foods to keep our bodies in perfect shape. But then along came food processors and, of course, fast foods and restaurants with chefs who have declared they cannot prepare a good meal without adding salt. Lots of salt.

But we have company now. We aren't alone in this battle to get the word out. Science professors and some medical writers have joined us.

About time, I say. So, let's get behind the effort and everyone help make this news "go viral." Salt is damaging. Stop using it in processed foods. We get enough sodium in natural, fresh foods. We don't need any added to our diet.