We use salt for making food taste better and also it makes our bodies stronger as the sodium that we get from salt allows nerves to send & receive electrical impulses, thus making our muscles stronger. There is more to salt than just these advantages, it literally saves lives and also prevents a considerable number of injuries each and every year.
This is the conclusion reached by the Marquette University as their study shows that when there’s ice on the road after a winter storm, de-icing the road by using salt will lower accidents by a whopping 88% and also injuries by 85%.
Let’s not forget about the financial component as when the snow combined with the ice make our roads impassable, state economies end up paying as much as $700 million a day, while using salt is very cheap and it deices the road in about half an hour or so.
