Do You Crave Salt?
Do you crave salt? Do you put salt on your food? Do you love
salty nuts, potato chips or French fries, popcorn, pretzels,
cheese puffs, or other salty snack foods? Chances are, you are
eating the wrong kind of salt!
Natural Salt
Salt, as it occurs in the Earth, is a complex crystal containing
eighty-four elements that are vital to life. These include
hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, sodium, magnesium, silicum,
chloride, calcium, titanium, chromium, manganese, iron, copper,
zinc, selenium, zirconium, silver, iodine, platinum, gold, and
many more. As salt moves through the ecosystem, salt nourishes
plants and animals, supporting all life.
These nutrients are the same elements originally found existing
in the "primal ocean" where all life originated, and the same
elements our bodies need for good health.
Table Salt -- Industrial Sodium Chloride
What is sold as table salt for us to eat is actually a product
of industrial production.
About 93 percent of salt production worldwide is used directly
for industrial purposes. It is essential to make products such
as laundry detergent, varnish, plastics and other products.
For these industrial uses, chemical processes require pure
sodium chloride. To obtain sodium chloride, all the essential
minerals and trace elements are removed from natural salt and
discarded as impurities.
The remaining sodium chloride is used to preserve foods
inexpensively, which is why so many ready-to-eat food products
are heavily "salted" with sodium chloride. The sodium chloride
inhibits the natural breakdown of the food, increasing its shelf
life of foods that would naturally spoil very quickly. Since
foods break down in our bodies with the same processes nature
uses to break foods down outside of our bodies, sodium chloride
in food products also makes them more difficult to digest.
Sodium chloride is fine for factories, but it doesn't belong in
our bodies! It is an unnatural, isolated substance that is
nothing like the living salt found in Nature.
Our Bodies Contain a Living Sea
Our bodies contain the same salty liquid as that of the primal
sea--a fluid consisting of water and salt. This flows through
more than 56,000 miles of waterways and blood vessels,
regulating and balancing the functions of our bodies.
To replenish this sea, our bodies need natural salt. While our
bodies require only 0.007 ounces of whole, natural salt per day
(that's about 1/25th of a teaspoon), we could eat sodium
chloride--with only two of the eighty-four essential
elements--all day long and still be deficient of the nutrients
we need from real salt.
Nutrient-deficient Sodium Chloride Makes Our Bodies Crave Real,
Natural Salt
Because our bodies need natural salt, when we eat less than
0.007 ounces of natural salt per day, a salt craving kicks in.
When we eat sodium chloride, it contains none of the nutrients
our bodies need. Craving the nutrients found in natural salt, we
eat more and more sodium chloride and set up a vicious cycle
that results in more and more cravings.
Whether or not we are aware of the dangers of sodium chloride,
our bodies recognize sodium chloride as an unnatural
substance--a poison--and try to eliminate it as quickly as
possible. The problem is, we eat more salt than our bodies can
process out. Here in the United States, our average daily
consumption of table salt is between 0.4 ounces and 0.7 ounces.
Our bodies are only able to excrete 0.17 ounces to 0.25 ounces a
day through our kidneys, depending on our age, constitution and
sex.
Our bodies then try to neutralize whatever sodium chloride is
left in the body by surrounding it with water molecules in order
to break it down into sodium and chloride. For this process, our
bodies take water from our cells. Without water, our body cells
die.
The result is edema, or excess fluid in the body tissue. This is
why doctors tell us to avoid salt.
If there is more sodium chloride in a body than it can
neutralize by pulling water out of cells, the body get rids of
the excess sodium chloride by binding it with uric acid to form
new crystals. These are deposited directly in the bones and
joints and are known as arthritis, gout, and kidney and gall
bladder stones.
The Natural Salt Solution
When we eat natural, living salt, which contains all it's
original elements, our bodies receive the 0.007 ounces of actual
salt it needs to thrive. A little goes a very long way to
creating good health.
Because natural salt provides the elements the body needs, the
body no longer craves salt and the natural balance of salt
intake and elimination is re-established. Ills caused by
excessive intake of sodium chloride disappear. You can enjoy the
enhanced flavor of foods with salt that will add to your good
health, naturally.
Read more about healthful salt at
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