The raw starch in uncooked nuts gives my tummy the growlies.

There is, by the way, this interesting thing about humans and raw starch. When humans started cooking their starchy roots back in the stone age, they were able to retain far more of the nutrients of such foods, and thus grew bigger and healthier.

On saly: my Mom, bless her heart, having being diagnosed with high blood pressure and advised to avoid saly, avoided all of it. If it said salt on the package, she didn't eat it. Did all her own cooking salt free. No iodine in her diet to speak of.

Developed a goitre big enough to cause her to faint when it pressed on her carotid as she turned her head. Had to have her thyroid removed.