Table Salt and High Blood Pressure Walk Hand and Hand......with the cemetery.

   This story reaches a few years back just before I stuck out my hand for my diploma at Mercer Southern Collage of Pharmacy in Atlanta, Ga.

Okay, so it's been a little more than a few years, give or take a few.

I was asked to have an interview with an executive from Hoffman LaRoach Pharmaceutical company.Course that company changed its name several times I assume.

This company was big time since it produced Valium and a number of other main liners.The gentleman stood when I arrived and shook hands.

It was a lunch engagement, the man had eaten   ahead of time so he could interview others.

He was very attentive especially when my food was served.He watched my mannerisms and the  way I was unwrapping my napkin and where I located the silverware.For some ungodly reason      I began to recognize this was by far more important than discussing my experiences while working my way through Pharmacy school.

He passed me the salt and pepper shakers before I took the first bite.Fortunately my thoughts took me back to what I recently read in the Readers Digest.

It was a distinguishing characteristic for a person to taste his food before he applied the condiments.

WOW! That was what he was looking for and he immediately made a comment that he was impressed.

He shared," Out of the last dozen I have interviewed you are the only one who tasted first.Go ahead and enjoy your meal and you are hired if you want the job."

Only this week I witnessed several people sitting at my table reversed the procedure and poured the salt and pepper like we were giving out of salt in the shaker.

Having just had a physical and blood tests, my sodium was low and my B.P.was normal, 128/78 with a pulse of 54 from walking my dog in the mountains and controlling my intake of salt.

Do away with the NACL(salt) and your B.P.will be normal, or come down.A heart specialist told me that he had seen a twelve year old with a B.P.of 212.

He asked her if she liked salt and she said,      "Mister doctor, I just can't get enough salt, I salt everything, I salt it like it is going out of style."                                                       

Everett Beal Rph.                                                 Fight drug abuse

 Fatal Addiction.