My full given name is Fred C. Klein and the C. might as well stand for Chip as I am so addicted to them that I well might be made of them.

Then, last week I sat next to my fellow Friar and New York Health and Aging GC Gideon Schein and right away I noticed his appreciable weight loss and, of course, always looking for a dieting SECRET, I asked him what did the trick and he said it was a low salt diet.  Hmm...

When I was young I ate a lot of red meat sprinkled liberally with salt, but rising blood pressure problems reformed me and now I rarely reach for the shaker. 

Amongst the foods Gideon told me he now eschews are chips. 

I love chips!  Who cares about the salsa. I have been known to quickly inhale a bag of chips before dinner.  Yum!

But now I am at a cross roads and just might have to change my middle name to Carlos (which is a story for another day).