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pictured above, from left to right: table (iodized) salt, kosher salt, and fine sea salt
What’s the difference between table salt, kosher salt, and sea salt? I get asked this question a lot... 
I'm not sure why, but I can't stop staring at pictures of KFC's newest Frankenfood creation, the Double Down . There's something about this glob of fat and sodium that I find mesmerizing.
Maybe it's a warning from 
You are correct. Here’s the deal – salt’s chemical name is NaCl – that’s sodium chloride. It’s about 40% sodium and 60% chloride. It’s that 40% that sort of gives salt the bad rap. The high...
Note from Connie: A fascinating study comes from the U.K. that draws a connection between salt intake and sugar intake. Jennifer Moore brings you details.
If young kids and adolescents cut their salt... 
Salt is literally in everything we eat – soup, bread, chocolate, macaroni and cheese, canned..., stimulating and a potentially deadly poison to us. If you have ever had an open wound and gotten salt...
Regular table salt is probably not something you think about having weird stuff in, but think... another typical American non-food. We use sea salt and Himalayan salt. True sea salt isn't white but a little... 
Should you use sea salt instead of ordinary table salt? While iodized table salt is a good source of iodine, sea salt often is not. If you don't use table salt or eat ocean fish or kelp...
. The best sources are iodized salt and seafood. Plants can be a good source, but only if they are grown on iodine... percent of people who eat both meat and vegetables. While iodized table salt is a good source of iodine... 
recommendations state that adults should eat less than 2,400 mg of sodium a day (that’s about a teaspoon of salt... than 2,000 mg per day. Getting rid of the salt shaker from the table and avoiding adding salt to foods...
Widespread media coverage of the dangers of salt and it’s toxic affect on health... and a preservative be all that bad for everyone?
Salt, technically speaking sodium is one of the electrolytes... 
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