Salted, roasted nuts ARE junk food. Are you aware, Q, that raw and unroasted nuts are about 10 times better for you than the salted, roasted variety? The raw ones still have life energy in them. "Prana". The cooked ones don't. They're energetically stone dead. The raw ones also have a delicate and excellent taste, perhaps not immediately detectable to a pallet that is normally deluged in salt, sugar, or other strong spices.

The taste of the raw nut is a far better taste once you get used to it.

Subtlety is something not to be missed...in either food or life...in my opinion.

But, hey, if you are in a hurry to get your entire monthly salt requirements for a healthy body...and you want to do it in just one sitting....by all means, eat a bag of potato chips or a bag of salted nuts! ;-) For your entire YEARLY allotment of salt and a month's worth of overcooked oil besides, just scarf down a couple of orders of fries at a "New York Fries" place. They're dead too.