Follow this link to the Associated Press article that breaks this startling news.

The headline is “NYC takes lead in setting next food target _ salt”.  In this article by Stephanie Nano of the Associated Press I find the following statement:

A recent analysis showed that for every gram of salt cut, as many as 250,000 cases of heart disease and 200,000 deaths could be prevented over a decade.

As I said in the title to this post, this must make common table salt the most deadly poison in nature.  Imagine a gram of salt causing 250,000 cases of heart disease and 200,000 deaths. If the 1 gram of salt can be ingested over an entire decade and still cause this effect, you have to wonder what the 1100 milligrams of salt in a single serving of canned soup can do to you.  How does anyone survive?

You have to wonder who edits or fact checks these articles.

I don’t know whether this falls under Greenberg’s Law of the Media or not.  This statement is so blantantly ridiculous that it cannot really be misleading.  It just makes you want to laugh at the author and her editors.