Every overweight person who seriously follows my advice to abandon dieting and simply avoid eating salt and salty food loses weight easily and safely. Here is an unsolicited example: http://rayhayden.us/lowsodium.html

Salt is associated with many diseases and you’re right to advise people to reduce their intake.

But on your website you repeatedly assert: ‘If you cut down on calories you will not lose weight.’

You appear to base this claim on the idea that obesity is exclusively caused by excess fluid and fat retention resulting from excess salt and too little calcium.

You suggest that: ‘Most fat people are “dieting” most of the time – i.e. they are eating insufficient food for their body’s needs.’

You present no evidence for this claim, which seems most unlikely. I can’t say I’ve observed this behaviour in fat friends or acquaintances.

In truth a great many of us over eat. I’m often tempted by comfort foods myself. Sadly, all the evidence is that eating foods high in fat leads to obesity.

High sodium intake is the main cause of child obesity, and children need to be protected from eating and acquiring a taste for salty foods and snacks. See http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/children.html