[Gayle]

I don't add salt in the cooking to any meals and I get a bit peeved when people who I've cooked for add salt or pepper before tasting it. How do they know whether it needs additional seasoning. Because I don't add salt I can really taste in takeaway food, mainly in Chinese food as they tend to use a lot. Most processed foods are very salty as well - I wish they'd stop adding salt, it's hardly needed as a preservative these days.

Vinegar as part of a balanced diet can actually be very good for you. It's part of the Meditteranean diet which is extremely healthy - lots of tomatoes and vinegar. Obviously, I realise that if you have a reaction to vinegar it's not very good for you at all but as a generalisation for most people it is.