because anybody willing to beat up a muslim for being muslim is not likely to be intelligent enough to tell the difference between brown and muslim . <| sep |> It ' s literally the top post right now dude . <| sep |> I ' ll just note that a lot of recent research suggests that sodium doesn ' t increase blood pressure as much as previously thought . Very high doses of salt 24 g per day do appear to cause high BP , but in the normal range 616 g there doesn ' t appear to be much correlation for most people . For example in one large scale found There was no correlation between salt intake and blood pressure in women . There was a correlation in men . Men with normal BP could have low or high salt intake , but men with high blood pressure were more likely to have high salt intake . This suggests that salt affects different people differently . Not eating fruits and vegetables was correlated with high BP in both sexes . Alcohol intake correlated with high BP in both sexes There was no correlation with physical activity an BP . Age and body mass index were the two most important factors in high BP . Of course since having large a r m s c u f f s m a y o v e r e s t i m a t e b loodpressureinindividuals . pdf leads to a blood pressure cuff overestimating BP , some estimates are that 30 % of heavy people with high BP are misdiagnosed , so we ' re not even sure about the BMI correlation . Some of the better data on sodium and BP is based on analysis of many published s t u d i e s d i e t a r y s a l t f o r t h e p r e v e n t i onofcardiovasculardisease which concluded that Reducing salt intake reduces BP a little bit not enough to help . There there might be other benefits to heart health from reduced salt intake that aren ' t explained by BP reduction . There is not enough evidence to support advising people to reduce their salt intake . There ' s another study I read , that I can ' t find right now , that measured sodium in the blood and urine , and BP at the cardiac artery . They found a small 3 mm Mg reduction in BP , but only in 20 % of people , and only when measured at the heart , not when measured at the arm .