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eat more salt
Tagged Under : health
No, don’t. Don’t eat more salt. But do read my latest work: a quick piece for National Geographic News about a study on salt and mood.
An editor at NG News forwarded me a press release about this research a few days ago. The scientist’s name was “Kim Johnson” but I saw on his website that his actual first name is Alan, so I asked him what he prefers in print. He says everyone calls him Kim but Alan is better because he gets the wrong pronoun all the time, and he’d already seen “she” a couple of times on stories based on that press release.
This reminded me of my favorite correction ever. When I was interning at the Monterey County Herald in 2002, I interviewed a guy named Kelly Sorenson. He’s the executive director of the Ventana Wildlife Society, which works with condors in Big Sur. He was one of several people I talked to for a story and I only referred to him once, so I never used a pronoun for him. Later that night a copy editor decided something else should be attributed to Sorenson, and added a “she said.” Hooooo boy was my editor mad.
The correction: “An article on page B1 Monday about lead poisoning in condors referred incorrectly to Kelly Sorenson, executive director of the Ventana Wilderness Society. He is a man.” I heard his coworkers cut it out and taped it to his door.