Why put an
industrial chemical into your body when it craves the healthy
minerals in natural salt?
Salt:
Natural or Artificial?
by Hilde
Bschorr
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
http://www.HimalayanLivingSalt.com Hilde Bschorr is the Owner of
Himalayan Living Salt, an online purveyor of natural, unrefined,
living salt products.
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