“Lowering salt consumption, along with stopping smoking, are two areas in which a broad public health effort can have the most impact on the most people,” Dr. Frieden, commissioner of New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in The New York Times. Being on a new salt regimen for a year, I can tell you for sure – he is right and living with only the salt that is found naturally in raw food is really really really hard. I can’t eat out almost always!