The Facts:
About 25-percent or less of sodium comes from food preparation or salt added at the table. Most sodium comes from processed foods. It’s added to help preserve, add flavor, improve the texture, bind ingredients, and control the speed of fermentation (in foods like cheese, bread dough, and sauerkraut).
Source: American Dietetic Association
Me, I’ve never been much of an add-salt-to-food kind of gal. In fact, I’m quite the opposite – I’ve been known to pick salt off pretzels. 
How about you? Do you usually add salt to your food… or eat it as is?
The CBC in Canada did an expose of restaurants and the calories, fat and sodium found in their meals.
Shocking to see how a small appetizer can have 1100 calories and 3 days worth of sodium
http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/calorie_confidential/
Your site is awesome. I think you are on a great mission! I try to season more with spices and really try to limit adding extra salt. Hubby salts his food very heavy-handed. He was a smoker for many years and I think it has something to do with it…….his parents, still smokers, are the same. Luckily, he quit smoking almost 2 yrs ago
so now we just have to work on the sodium. One step at a time
I am in Kansas too…St. Marys…half way between Topeka and Manhattan
Nice fact, thanks for sharing!
I must confess, salty food is my achilles heel, and has been ever since I can remember. I could do without sweets of all kinds for the rest of my life and not miss them, but I am careful to not even eat one yummy, salty, potato chip; one leads to dozens more!
I do try to use other spices, and being a huge salsa fan I often put it (fresh with lots of cilantro whenever possible) on my foods; it seems to satient that hunger for salt.
I rarely add salt to my food. Also, whenever my husband and I go out for sushi, I have stopped using even the low sodium soy sauce. I’ve noticed that even after a dinner of sushi, so low in calories, I can be 2 pounds heavier in the morning because of the soy sauce! Also, I never eat soup. It’s also supposed to contain much sodium….the soup served at restaurants, especially.
Since I’ve started reading labels, I can’t believe the amount of salt added to food. You have to be careful, even food labeled as healthy can whollop at heavy sodium punch. I’m not overly crazy about salt myself, but my poor husband lathers salt on his food, before he even tastes it. As a result, I cook with very little salt.
I’ve noticed recently how much salt our sandwich meat has. It’s shocking when you start to read the labels how much hidden salt is in processed food. I’m finding that the more whole foods that I eat, the saltier (in an unpleasant way) processed foods taste. I still like salt – but only so much!
In my old life, I used to put salt on everything when I cooked. And that is in addition to all the processed food I used to buy (particularly, Weight Watchers frozen food).
Now I read the labels. I have switched to organic vegetable broth because it only has 330mg of sodium, compared to the 700 the old standard has.
I also don’t put any salt in food that I cook. I wait until I am able to eat and taste it first to make sure it even needs it.
I season with lots of garlic, lemon, green onions, and herbs – anything and everything, before I put in salt.
I used to add a lot of salt, now I add a little bit much less than before, but to eat a food without any salt I don’t think I will be able.