The United States dietary guidelines, based on the 2005 Institute of Medicine report, recommend that the general population aim for sodium levels of 1,500 to 2,300 milligrams a day because those levels will not raise blood pressure.
One of the symptoms of the plague was coughing and sneezing, and it is believed that Pope Gregory VII suggested saying âGod bless youâ after a person sneezed in hopes that this prayer would protect them from an otherwise certain death. The expression may have also originated from superstition.
Early Christians believed that God made man (Adam) come to life by breathing the breath of life into his nostrils, so as in so many other examples, the two superstitions have conflated together over time, the old Pagan belief being Christianised by saying (God) bless you when you expel your soulf/life force by sneezing.