As an aside, it's highly unlikely that avoiding salt will help with hypertension.
My doctor told me that hypertension is harder to control when you eat a high-salt diet. I see a fair amount of research suggesting this is the case.
Given that we don't require a high-salt diet to be healthy, I see no reason to eat a lot of salt. Whether it's bad for us or not may be debatable, but it would be hard to argue that loads of salt is good for us.
