Salt: was Re: Stefansson's Book Online

[Guest guest]

Hmmm.. Yet they continued to use tobacco. I wonder if their use

of " addictive " was translated right. Yes, the more salt you eat the

more you want (sometimes), but it also has some health benefits, such

as helping the adrenals, maintaining the electrolytes, contributing the

chlorine for digestive acid and sodium for the buffer. I have a

personal theory that some foods taste better with salt because the salt

adds something to make them more digestible. I've read cases where

giving a colicky, fussy baby a bit of salt will settle the sick tummy

(and the baby) right down.

In my experience, salty foods are at their peak of seductiveness when

I've been sweating a lot (losing salt) like at a carnival in 100 degree

weather nothing is quite as refreshing as a sour pickle. I guess

people on low-salt diets, tho would find salty foods always seductive.

I really wonder how many elderly people die in heat waves because their

salt-intake is severely restricted by their doctors for fear of heart

problems. So their electrolytes get dangerously low and give them

a " heart problem " !

>

> Stefansson wrote in FOTL that first nations people considered salt to

> be addictive. They made an analogy to their own addiction to tobacco.

> They felt that white people's salting of food made it addictive.

>

[Guest guest]

My theory is that it's more to do with getting the electrolytes replenished

moreso than getting sodium replenished. If you have unrefined salt such as

seasalt with all the trace minerals and plenty of the mineral complex I don't

think your body will crave salt nearly as much.

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On Feb 9, 2009, at 2:02 AM, " haecklers " <haecklers@...> wrote:

Hmmm.. Yet they continued to use tobacco. I wonder if their use

of " addictive " was translated right. Yes, the more salt you eat the

more you want (sometimes), but it also has some health benefits, such

as helping the adrenals, maintaining the electrolytes, contributing the

chlorine for digestive acid and sodium for the buffer. I have a

personal theory that some foods taste better with salt because the salt

adds something to make them more digestible. I've read cases where

giving a colicky, fussy baby a bit of salt will settle the sick tummy

(and the baby) right down.

In my experience, salty foods are at their peak of seductiveness when

I've been sweating a lot (losing salt) like at a carnival in 100 degree

weather nothing is quite as refreshing as a sour pickle. I guess

people on low-salt diets, tho would find salty foods always seductive.

I really wonder how many elderly people die in heat waves because their

salt-intake is severely restricted by their doctors for fear of heart

problems. So their electrolytes get dangerously low and give them

a " heart problem " !

>

> Stefansson wrote in FOTL that first nations people considered salt to

> be addictive. They made an analogy to their own addiction to tobacco.

> They felt that white people's salting of food made it addictive.

>

[Guest guest]

There was a book review in our local paper a couple years back by a

doctor of anthropology. . . .he mentioned that the meat of wild game was

significantly higher in salt, so were human diets back when. Wild

animals seek out salt licks and marsh grasses, etc. It was said matter

of factly, as if everyone knew this. It wasn't until domestication of

livestock that humans needed extra salt (and developed a salt trade which

became early currency). So those salt addictsmay have been addicted to

a missing link in their diet. . . .

Desh

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I don't know about the role of salt in early animal domestication, but

in modern times salt is one of the most common supplements given to

animals. And it's common for animals gorge on it so I would say modern

domesticated animals probably have as much or even more sodium than

wild game.

I also think that the development of the salt trade may actually have

been the result of a switch from an all meat faunivore diet to a mixed

diet. Grains and vegetables have lower amounts of sodium than animal

tissues.

>

> There was a book review in our local paper a couple years back by a

> doctor of anthropology. . . .he mentioned that the meat of wild game was

> significantly higher in salt, so were human diets back when. Wild

> animals seek out salt licks and marsh grasses, etc. It was said matter

> of factly, as if everyone knew this. It wasn't until domestication of

> livestock that humans needed extra salt (and developed a salt trade

which

> became early currency). So those salt addictsmay have been addicted to

> a missing link in their diet. . . .

>

> Desh

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