But while salt eats away at electronic components rapidly, mechanical devices that have been underwater can sometimes be saved.
Yet consumption can be difficult to monitor as three-quarters of the salt eaten is in common foods such as bread, breakfast cereal and ready meals.
Well, that and her love of fresh tomatoes dressed with olive oil and salt eaten sun-warmed straight from the vine.
The first of the two reviews concluded that cutting back "the amount of salt eaten reduces blood pressure, but there is insufficient evidence to confirm the predicted reductions in people dying prematurely or suffering cardiovascular disease".
This is, after all, the state where a man high on bath salts ate another man's face off.
Instant, convenient, ubiquitous food, loaded with fat, sugar and salt, is eating and drinking Made Easy.
It's still carbohydrate, fat and salt, and eating them won't do anybody any good.
In 420 B.C.E., the Greek historian Herodotus noted that salt was eating away the Egyptian pyramids.
Take a little Epsom salt before eating butter or cream or whatever triggers a migraine attack.
