Salt Could Help Fight Cancer, Studies Show

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What if their salt intake prolonged their lives by "X" amount of time ?

I do not use salt as back in the 90s everyone was saying salt was bad for you so my wife had us cut out salt.. She died of cancer too.

Animals and ancient people seem to have placed great value on salt... All things in moderation Padawan ?

My sincere condolences about your wife.

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Animals and ancient people seem to have placed great value on salt... All things in moderation Padawan ?

salt or i should say sodium chloride is a critical mineral for for normal body function not just for taste.
i doubt very seriously ancient people before age of reason knew that salt / sodium chloride was combination of two electrolytes
and needed for good hydration, muscle, and nerve function. the greeks and romans may have had a little knowledge about it as well as the chinese. but i think it is more likely what they knew was how it could be used for in food preparation/ preservation and not the need for it in our health.

before those civilizations, i think it was the taste that drove humans along with animals for the search of the mineral by instinct.

Something interesting to add to this. 

I picked this up in Biblical studies college.

And I agree with what SJL says here.

To add a bit, salt was actually pretty sacred back then. Men used to carry bags of salt on them like money bags. They even used it for money, for some purchases amongst themselves. They would also use salt to make a vow or promise to each other. The person making the vow would take a single grain of salt from their salt bag and place it in the person's salt bag they were making the promise to. That person would then shake their bag so that the single grain would get lost in their salt, so that they basically couldn't "take it back." It was a way of keeping your word to someone. A way of signifying that you had made a promise and couldn't "take it back."

Salt is actually powerful enough to be used in magick. It is highly believed to ward of evil spirits. The salt lines on windows and doors to keep evil spirits out is widely used by more people than you'd think.

Like SJL pointed out, it is definitely vital to our existence. As well as being somewhat sacred to people as far back as we can see.

As far as the science behind it....nah...they were clueless back then, except in the preservation Of food. I think they may have used it medicinally as well. Cleaning wounds with salt, or  salt water.