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.
Another common verbal response to another's sneeze is, Gesundheit; Gesundheit being a German word that means, appropriately, good health. Several hypotheses exist for why the custom arose of saying bless you or God bless you in the context of sneezing: Some say it came into use during the plague pandemics of the