From Jim Haigh
Franco Cappuccio and Simon Capewell make an assumption in their article on the health risks of eating salt: that what people want more than anything else is to live for a long time (1 May, p 22).
Some people consider it more important to enjoy life than to live as long as possible, and enjoying one’s food is an important part of that. If a sprinkling of salt makes my food taste better, I shall take the salt – and the consequences. Since we all have to die sometime of something, I do not think that my salt intake will put any extra burden on the medical facilities.
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK
