Even if salt per se isn't bad for you, if you avoid sodium, that forces you to make healthier food choices. There is a correlation between "crap food" and "loaded with salt". Or, more generally, "loaded with sodium".
This is simply because the addition of sodium compounds to food is a processing step. Right off the bat, anything which contains lots of sodium is almost certainly a processed food.
Let's look at it another way: Q: what do a slice of fresh meat or fish, a carrot and an apple have in common? A: no added sodium! No salt, no baking powder, no monosodium glutamate, ...
Salt is also abused by senseless cooks who don't take pride in creating flavor. They just throw stuff together and douse it with salt. You can almost measure a restaurant by how salty are the offerings. Approximately, the saltier the cooking, the more they just care about money (and therefore use lower quality ingredients, which they mask with salt or salt-containing sauces, flavor enhancers like MSG, or excessive spicing).
This is simply because the addition of sodium compounds to food is a processing step. Right off the bat, anything which contains lots of sodium is almost certainly a processed food.
Let's look at it another way: Q: what do a slice of fresh meat or fish, a carrot and an apple have in common? A: no added sodium! No salt, no baking powder, no monosodium glutamate, ...
Salt is also abused by senseless cooks who don't take pride in creating flavor. They just throw stuff together and douse it with salt. You can almost measure a restaurant by how salty are the offerings. Approximately, the saltier the cooking, the more they just care about money (and therefore use lower quality ingredients, which they mask with salt or salt-containing sauces, flavor enhancers like MSG, or excessive spicing).