Salt

  One day salt is bad, this guy says it's good. Who knows.

Guardian UK: A danger to public health? Uproar as scientist urges us to eat more salt - Exclusive: In his new book, James DiNicolantonio claims salt could make us healthier. But experts have condemned the advice as potentially dangerous

Eating more salt will reduce the amount of sugar in our diet and help us lose weight, he says. Indeed low-salt diets may be causing brittle bones and memory loss and more salt could fix diabetes, he claims.