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Should Doctors Start Recommending Salt?
Topic Started: Oct 5 2007, 06:57 AM (356 Views)
Selahgal
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Salt has become an inexpensive and readily available commodity that is taken for granted by most people.

But in older times, wars were fought over salt, and huge taxes were also
levied on it. In some places, salt was in such high demand that it was minted
into coins that were as valuable as gold and functioned as the basic currency
for ancient civilizations.

Where salt was scarce it was traded ounce for ounce with gold-for as the Roman statesman Cassiodorus observed, 'Some seek not gold, but there lives not a man who does not need salt.'

Because everyone, rich and poor, craves salt, rulers going back at least as far as the Chinese emperor Yu in 2200 B.C. have tried mightily to control and tax it. Salt taxes helped finance empires throughout Europe and Asia, but also inspired a lively black market, smuggling rings, riots, even revolutions.

Pure salt consists of the elements sodium and chloride. Its chemical name is sodium chloride and its formula is NaCl. Its mineral name is halite.

Table salt is a chemically simple combination of two components, sodium and chloride. The basic components of salt are, by themselves, are foundational
to life. Sodium is the foundational element for making other elements, and
chloride helps to buffer acids in the stomach when ingested. In combination,
though, the two elements form sodium chloride, commonly known as salt.

Salt is essential to life.

Each of us contain from four to eight ounces of salt. In the body, salt is as important to humans as water or air. It helps maintain the normal volume of
blood in the body and also helps keep the correct balance of water in and
around the cells and tissues.

Salt plays an important part in the digestion of food and is essential in making the heart beat correctly. It is also necessary for the formation and proper function of nerve fibers, which carry impulses to and from the brain.

Sodium, together with calcium, magnesium and potassium, helps regulate the body's metabolism. The sodium in salt is an essential nutrient. In combination with potassium, it regulates the acid-alkaline balance in our blood and is also necessary for proper muscle functioning. When we don't get enough sodium chloride, we experience muscle cramps, dizziness, exhaustion and, in extreme cases, convulsions and death.

Salt is essential to our well being.

For years, many researchers have claimed that salt threatens public health, mostly by contributing to high blood pressure. Recently, though, other researchers have begun to change salt's reputation. A recent review of salt studies conducted over the past two decades concluded that there's no reason for doctors to recommend reducing sodium intake for people with normal blood pressure. It may be that most of us are protected from excessive salt by our kidneys, which regulate the body's sodium level and eliminates any excess.

Salt cures aren't new. In the early 19th Century, sick people traveled to rudimentary spas such as French Lick Springs in Indiana and Big Bone Lick,
Kentucky, to soak in salt springs.

Today's more luxurious spas offer salt baths, glows, rubs and polishes to
exfoliate dead skin, stimulate circulation and relieve stress.

All salts come from a sea, but are processed in different ways. The oceans that once covered the earth left a generous supply of salt beds and underground deposits.

There are two basic methods for removing salt from the ground: room-and-pillar
mining and solution mining. In room-and-pillar mining, shafts are sunk into the ground, and miners break up the rock salt with drills. The miners remove chunks of salt, creating huge rooms that are separated by pillars of salt. The room-and-pillar method requires that about half the salt be left behind as
pillars. In solution mining, a well is drilled into the ground, and two pipes are lowered into the hole. The pipes consist of a small central pipe inside a larger pipe. The brine is either shipped as a liquid or evaporated in special devices called vacuum pans to form solid salt.

Crystal salt deposits are found on every continent. Oceans contained an estimated four-and-a-half million cubic miles of it.

Only about five percent of the world's annual salt production ends up as seasoning at the dinner table. The vast majority, however, pours into chemical plants, where it leads the five major raw materials utilized by industry: salt, sulfur, limestone, coal and petroleum.

Salt seasons food and drink, acts as a preservative, cures leather, makes
glass, rubber and wood pulp. Salt has some 14,000 uses, more than any other
mineral.

Salt is essential. In humans, it is the basic component of all our body
fluids and our life.

So here is the question: Should Doctors Start Recommending Salt?
The answer: Absolutely!

Salt is at the foundation of keeping our bodies alkaline.

Salt is foundational for making sodium bicarbonate to buffer dietary and metabolic acids.

Salt is necessary for the creation and transport of energy.

Salt is necessary to keep our bodies running.

Salt is necessary to have thoughts.

Salt is the foundational atom for making magnesium, potassium and calcium.

Salt regulates our temperature.

Salt is necessary to create calcium for making strong bones.

All fluids of the body are salty to maintain alkalinity and to protect and
preserve health, energy and vitality.

Salt is as important as oxygen.

Without salt there would be no plant, animal or human life on earth.

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http://www.phmiracleliving.com/phlavor.htm

http://www.phmiracleliving.com/pHourSalts.htm
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You can however, get too much of it. :( What I'm seeing about salt is that the table salt most of us have (from Morton's or Hain) is only sodium and chloride and those are supposedly bleached on top of that. Chloride is where chlorine comes from. (I think...) You know how bad chlorine is!!! I still feel the body can tell if the elementals are real or man-made.

Anyway, if you consume REAL salt which has all 81 minerals in it and has not been bleached you have a healthier thing. All the minerals work synergistically together, the way it was created to be taken in by humans and animals. And adding a lot of purified water to this actually seems to flush out bad stuff and keeps the body healther. The salt is diluted 2 ways. First by the addition of the other minerals and second by the water.

Hubby & I started the Water Cure program (www.watercure2.com) and could see results after only a few days. This program requires water and real salt to be consumed 6X a day. You drink, in oz., 1/2 your body weight. I weigh around 150, so I drink 75 oz. of water per day, minimum. I generally drink more than this anyway. I add a pinch of Himalayan pink salt to my first glass per day and use the sea salt or Himalayan on my food the rest of the day. (I also add 2 drops of Lugol's iodine, 15 drops stevia and 1/2 tsp. apple cider vinegar.)
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