“…and Hoden, who wrote a book more technical than the Brewer's wrote, about the importance of salt in preventing high blood pressure in pregnant women. Salt restriction is pretty sure to cause hypertension in pregnancy. And so I made the analogy between premenstrual syndrome and pregnancy and suggested that women who swell up before their period try eating as much salt as they crave during that time, and usually they crave extra salt like pregnant women. And when they ate lots of salt, they didn't swell up. So then my old”