Once I stood on the bank of a rice paddy in rural Sichuan Province, and a lean and aging Chinese peasant, wearing a faded forty-year-old blue jacket issued by the Mao government in the early years of ...

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To create the white, cubic crystals known as salt, it takes two equal sums of elements: sodium, a reactive metal, and chlorine, a poisonous gas. A plethora of benefits from salt exist, including its ...

This week, the New York City Health Department and Mayor Bloomberg raised the ire of olive lovers and populists alike by introducing the National Salt Reduction Initiative, a voluntary measure aiming ...