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17939971

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-10-17
pubmed:abstractText
Although the efficacy and the health benefits of sodium restriction are clear, such restrictions continue to be met with the greatest reluctance, most particularly--as underscored by the historian Bergier in his hypothesis--because profoundly symbolic values are unfailingly related to salt. This brief report summarizes several historical aspects of salt's role as a substance participating in religious rites and linguistic contexts where its past role can still be seen today. It broaches the important question of "salt hunger" of the vital role of salt in past times, a costly substance because it was indispensable, and the basis of a tax (the salt tax) which underlay the French Revolution.
pubmed:language
fre
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1769-7255
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
3 Suppl 2
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
S84-90
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
[Sodium at the crossroads of history and culture].
pubmed:affiliation
Ruperto Carola Universität Heidelberg, Germany. Prof.E.Ritz@t-online.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract