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.
We all fall down. It is probably from the 1600's and is a reference to the bubonic plague. The ring was the rash typical of having the plague. The posies were herbs and spices carried to freshen the air from the stench of death. Tisha (later Ashes) is the tissue that you held across your mouth to breathe through, although it could be sneezing. All fall down is dying from the plague.