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Regardless if you used a lot of salt in your food or just sparingly, salt contributes flavor. However, if you need to eliminate salt from your recipes, then you know how bland food can suddenly taste.

Sodium is everywhere in our diets. We asked experts for the bottom line on its health risks. By Alice Callahan Without sodium, you wouldn’t be able to survive. Nerves would fail to fire; muscles ...