I get your skepticism. As you say, when something that you like turns out to be "healthy", it feels like you just passed through a portal into the wrong universe... but I've done quite a lot of technical reading on this now. All the references to salt being bad for your cardiovascular health come back to the same couple of very poor studies. That's not acceptable for a universal medical paradigm. When you have to genetically alter rats to make them sensitive to salt, then extrapolate experiments on them as proof that salt is bad for humans, you know you're dealing with shoddy experimental methodology. I'd say cut back on sugar—we know that stuff's bad for you—and enjoy salt with your food and you'll be a lot better off than if you do the reverse! :)
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Good to know. After watching What the Health last night I can believe it. A lot of the salt recommendations come from the associations that are mentioned in that documentary.