Uganda, May 4 -- To what lengths are you willing to go to keep your salt intake within acceptable standards? If you do not mind swapping your table salt with sea salt, it will set you back just under Shs200,000-a staggering amount by any measure, especially with the current inflationary pressures. And if you want to answer that decades-old 'how much is too much' question, suppressing the culinary godsend will come at the cost of your food tasting, feeling, looking, and even smelling better.

This white crystalline substance used for seasoning or preserving food is loved and loathed in almost equal measure. But how is this for a fact? The first-line treatment of high blood pressure or hypertension is, wait for it, significantly scaling bac...