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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
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