1. Grabbing a bowl of salad or a saltshaker as it's being passed to someone who asked for it is the equivalent of cutting in line: greedy and rude.

2. When you find yourself getting heavy-handed with the saltshaker, simply drop a few apple (or potato) wedges in your pot.

3. Yet the saltshaker has become one of the most powerful weapons in the public health arsenal.

4. Danny: All right. (To Fanny)Will you please pass me the saltshaker?

5. Three-quarters of the sodium in our diets isn't from the saltshaker.