Worried about salt?

[Guest guest]

Restricting salt in your diet is one of conventional nutrition's most well-known

mantras. Salt, they say, will contribute to high blood pressure and increase

your risk of heart disease. While this may be true for certain salt-sensitive

people, it doesn't apply to most of you in the general population. No study on

the general population has ever found an association between low-sodium diets

and a reduced risk of heart disease or other diseases.

An eight-year study of people with high blood pressure living in New York,

however, found that those on low-salt diets had more than four times as many

heart attacks as those with normal sodium intake. Why would this be? Because

salt is essential for life -- you cannot live without it.

The problem with salt intake here in the United States has to do with the fact

that more than 75 percent of it in the average American's diet comes from

processed foods, like fast food, packaged snacks, convenience foods, and

restaurant meals.

And the salt that is used in processed foods is also the highly processed

variety -- NOT the natural salt your body needs to function.

The Difference Between Table Salt and Natural Salt.........

You may not realize that not all salt is created equal. There is actually a

major difference between the standard, refined table and cooking salt most of

you are accustomed to using, and natural health-promoting salt.

Restricting salt in your diet is one of conventional nutrition's most well-known

mantras. They say, will contribute to high blood pressure and increase your

risk of heart disease. While this may be true for certain salt-sensitive people,

it doesn't apply to most of you in the general population. No study on the

general population has ever found an association between low-sodium diets and a

reduced risk of heart disease or other diseases.

An eight-year study of people with high blood pressure living in New York,

however, found that those on low-salt diets had more than four times as many

heart attacks as those with normal sodium intake. Why would this be? Because

salt is essential for life -- you cannot live without it.

The problem with salt intake here in the United States has to do with the fact

that more than 75 percent of it in the average American's diet comes from

processed foods, like fast food, packaged snacks, convenience foods, and

restaurant meals. And the salt that is used in processed foods is also the

highly processed variety -- NOT the natural salt your body needs to function.

Your table salt is actually 97.5 percent sodium chloride and 2.5 percent

chemicals such as moisture absorbents and iodine. This salt is dried at an

excessively high temperature -- over 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit -- that actually

negatively alters the natural ionic physical structure of the salt. Moreover,

when your body attempts to eliminate the excess processed salt, water molecules

must surround the sodium chloride to break it up into sodium and chloride ions

in order to help your body neutralize these ions. To accomplish this, water is

taken from your cells, which tends to compromise the fluid balance in your

cells. The rest of the article can be found here.

http://tinyurl.com/2m575g

General information and misconceptions on salt,

Lottie

[Guest guest]

This is so interesting!

For the past year or more, I've been using kosher salt, because I like its

flavor. It is virtually impossible to over-salt (tastewise) with kosher salt.

But I wonder how it measures up in terms of its effect on health?

From: lotajam@...

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:15:04 -0600

Subject: [ ] Worried about salt?

Restricting salt in your diet is one of conventional nutrition's

most well-known mantras. Salt, they say, will contribute to high blood pressure

and increase your risk of heart disease. While this may be true for certain

salt-sensitive people, it doesn't apply to most of you in the general

population. No study on the general population has ever found an association

between low-sodium diets and a reduced risk of heart disease or other diseases.

An eight-year study of people with high blood pressure living in New York,

however, found that those on low-salt diets had more than four times as many

heart attacks as those with normal sodium intake. Why would this be? Because

salt is essential for life -- you cannot live without it.

The problem with salt intake here in the United States has to do with the fact

that more than 75 percent of it in the average American's diet comes from

processed foods, like fast food, packaged snacks, convenience foods, and

restaurant meals.

And the salt that is used in processed foods is also the highly processed

variety -- NOT the natural salt your body needs to function.

The Difference Between Table Salt and Natural Salt.........

You may not realize that not all salt is created equal. There is actually a

major difference between the standard, refined table and cooking salt most of

you are accustomed to using, and natural health-promoting salt.

Restricting salt in your diet is one of conventional nutrition's most well-known

mantras. They say, will contribute to high blood pressure and increase your

risk of heart disease. While this may be true for certain salt-sensitive people,

it doesn't apply to most of you in the general population. No study on the

general population has ever found an association between low-sodium diets and a

reduced risk of heart disease or other diseases.

An eight-year study of people with high blood pressure living in New York,

however, found that those on low-salt diets had more than four times as many

heart attacks as those with normal sodium intake. Why would this be? Because

salt is essential for life -- you cannot live without it.

The problem with salt intake here in the United States has to do with the fact

that more than 75 percent of it in the average American's diet comes from

processed foods, like fast food, packaged snacks, convenience foods, and

restaurant meals. And the salt that is used in processed foods is also the

highly processed variety -- NOT the natural salt your body needs to function.

Your table salt is actually 97.5 percent sodium chloride and 2.5 percent

chemicals such as moisture absorbents and iodine. This salt is dried at an

excessively high temperature -- over 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit -- that actually

negatively alters the natural ionic physical structure of the salt. Moreover,

when your body attempts to eliminate the excess processed salt, water molecules

must surround the sodium chloride to break it up into sodium and chloride ions

in order to help your body neutralize these ions. To accomplish this, water is

taken from your cells, which tends to compromise the fluid balance in your

cells. The rest of the article can be found here.

http://tinyurl.com/2m575g

General information and misconceptions on salt,

Lottie

[Guest guest]

So sea salt would be better??

Eva

From: Lottie Duthu

Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 5:15 PM

CML

Subject: [ ] Worried about salt?

Restricting salt in your diet is one of conventional nutrition's most well-known

mantras. Salt, they say, will contribute to high blood pressure and increase

your risk of heart disease. While this may be true for certain salt-sensitive

people, it doesn't apply to most of you in the general population. No study on

the general population has ever found an association between low-sodium diets

and a reduced risk of heart disease or other diseases.

An eight-year study of people with high blood pressure living in New York,

however, found that those on low-salt diets had more than four times as many

heart attacks as those with normal sodium intake. Why would this be? Because

salt is essential for life -- you cannot live without it.

The problem with salt intake here in the United States has to do with the fact

that more than 75 percent of it in the average American's diet comes from

processed foods, like fast food, packaged snacks, convenience foods, and

restaurant meals.

And the salt that is used in processed foods is also the highly processed

variety -- NOT the natural salt your body needs to function.

The Difference Between Table Salt and Natural Salt.........

You may not realize that not all salt is created equal. There is actually a

major difference between the standard, refined table and cooking salt most of

you are accustomed to using, and natural health-promoting salt.

Restricting salt in your diet is one of conventional nutrition's most well-known

mantras. They say, will contribute to high blood pressure and increase your risk

of heart disease. While this may be true for certain salt-sensitive people, it

doesn't apply to most of you in the general population. No study on the general

population has ever found an association between low-sodium diets and a reduced

risk of heart disease or other diseases.

An eight-year study of people with high blood pressure living in New York,

however, found that those on low-salt diets had more than four times as many

heart attacks as those with normal sodium intake. Why would this be? Because

salt is essential for life -- you cannot live without it.

The problem with salt intake here in the United States has to do with the fact

that more than 75 percent of it in the average American's diet comes from

processed foods, like fast food, packaged snacks, convenience foods, and

restaurant meals. And the salt that is used in processed foods is also the

highly processed variety -- NOT the natural salt your body needs to function.

Your table salt is actually 97.5 percent sodium chloride and 2.5 percent

chemicals such as moisture absorbents and iodine. This salt is dried at an

excessively high temperature -- over 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit -- that actually

negatively alters the natural ionic physical structure of the salt. Moreover,

when your body attempts to eliminate the excess processed salt, water molecules

must surround the sodium chloride to break it up into sodium and chloride ions

in order to help your body neutralize these ions. To accomplish this, water is

taken from your cells, which tends to compromise the fluid balance in your

cells. The rest of the article can be found here.

http://tinyurl.com/2m575g

General information and misconceptions on salt,

Lottie