The United States dietary guidelines, based on the 2005 Institute of Medicine report, recommend that the general population aim for sodium levels of 1,500 to 2,300 milligrams a day because those levels will not raise blood pressure.
One of the symptoms of the plague was coughing and sneezing, and it is believed that Pope Gregory VII suggested saying âGod bless youâ after a person sneezed in hopes that this prayer would protect them from an otherwise certain death. The expression may have also originated from superstition.
The song was written about a terrible event in European history. It was referred to as the âBlack Plague.â It is estimated that the Black Plague took the lives of over 30% of the European population. The song then experienced a bit of a rebirth in the mid 1600s as the âGreat Plagueâ took hold in England.