Everything should be moderated.. Salt can be dangerous, but we do need it.

People should be smart enough to maintain the ratio. We actually need different types of minerals. and yes they must be in balance..

the seasalt restraunts are usein are no diferent then regular table salt,all processed!The public needs to be aware of this,this needs to be exposed!

80% of the sodium that we as a population consume comes from processed foods (including fast food). Yes, sodium does occur naturally in plant foods that come from the ground, and we can get naturally occurring “sea salt” in eating heart healthy fatty fish. A high sodium intake does not only increase one’s risk of heart attack and stroke, but it is associated with kidney disease, hypertension, gastric cancer, decreased blood sugar control, osteoporosis, and other diseases. Salt is also an appetite stimulant. (So beyond the link between sodium intake and blood pressure, salt can still be detrimental to health). The link between sodium intake and heart health is indisputable when blood pressures improve more dramatically in patients on a no-salt vegetarian plus fish diet than on medications, and patients are actually able to reverse heart disease as well.

Anna LaBarre, RD, LDN

I for one are against any government legislation.
They are telling us now what we should and can’t eat, smoke, drink, take, etc, and want to have them tell us more of what we should/can’t do ? Besides they really do not any constitutional grounds to do so (even thought they get away with it) is our biggest problem today. Best not to impose on the freedoms we are supposed to have. Better to educate than to legislate, but then the government would loose all their power, wouldn’t they

If the amount og money spent on legislation, law enforcement, trying to combat issues with people doing to themselves what they want (when does no harm others), were spent on educating the facts that like the ones that are discussed in this and other forums, we would be able to combat more than 500 percent more issues with health than is currently done.

The government really has no basis to prevent anyone eating, taking and/or smoking anything that occurs in nature (selling is another issue), Personally responsibility has been dismissed too often today, replaced by more government control over our daily lives, especially when it comes to our health, Greed for wealth and power has taken a forefront to actually caring about people today.

However, I am not putting the entire blame on the government, whose leadership has committed treason against their own people, but I put the majority of the blame on the people in this country as a whole, including myself. All I have to do or anyone has to do is look in a mirror and ask not what I have done, but what I have I not done to help prevent many of the issues we face today with our government.
We are all too busy, too lazy, or whatever the reason to keep up with what is going on and help prevent the things we do not want to happen.
The old adage, the squeaky wheel get the oil, too many times a minority people/group whines about what they want and no one else speaks up to counter the issues and behold we have a new unwanted law for all.
When was the last time, or how many times this past year did anyone write to their congressman ?
I am guilty, I, only one, sad, very sad indeed.

Mike

One maay wonder why the shadow government wants us sick and weak. If they are so “concerned” about our health as they say nowadays, they should BAN table salt, refined sugar and bleached flour, along with preservatives, colorings, artifical flavoring, sweeteners, as well as pesticides, herbicides and enforce stricher rules, laws on environmental dumpings.
The overpopulation issue is a longtime concern for them. Our health is just money, business for profit, just like our freedoms. More people behind bars brings more fat checks for lawyers, judges, prisonguards, and related “services” such as bailbond agencies, cops…
Our health, our freedoms are for sale… One may wonder: how long?

Thanks, Barbaraa. I’ll give Celtic Sea Salt a try.

I have been using Celtic Sea Salt for years and it is wonderful. It takes much less b/c of the intensity. Yummm!!!

Yes, what is Truth about anything? John, where do we get seat salt where we can be sure they have not processed all minerals/nutrients
out of it?

There is an allusion here to most sodium coming from “processed foods and does not naturally occur” but the article is misleading… Unprocessed sea salt or Himalayan or Celtic Sea Salt are all good for us. The sodium cloride junk that they sell in most supermarkets has all the good stuff scrubbed out of it leaving only sodium cloride which is not good for anyone. BTW: After they scrub out all the good nutrients, the manufacturers sell them to make more $$$ for themselves…surprise…!!!!

Be careful though. much ‘sea salt’ has been overly refined. (and thus most minerals have been removed) I use ‘real salt’ which is mined, but not refined. You also can get mineral drops, or supplements which help supply the 63 required minerals, and maintain healthy Ph. (Joel Wallach says 63, but I’m not sure he knows about all needed minerals.)

Right on MaryLou. Sea salt brought me back to life. The first thing they do when they admit you to a hospital is to give you a saline drip. You need salt to help digest your food or indigestion & flatulence occur which means you aren’t absorbing your nutrients well. A recent buried study shows that 90% of clinically depressed people are dangerously sodium deficient. I was never one to salt anything, but years of strange aches & pains in my elbows & knees & 6 months of strenuous activity resulted in an emergency room visit where I was told if my sodium level got any lower I would have a seizure or a stroke. From then on I have supplemented w/ Hain iodized seas salt, Celtic sea salt, & Himalayan salt. Sea salt saved my life. I always carry a shaker on me & when I feel the symptoms, I take a teaspoon w/ water. If I don’t get results in 20 minutes, I do it again. Peace & Love, Jeff

Bob, I’m surprised you let this go through.
What I recall you saying many times is that Sea Salt is very, very good for us, but the processed salt that one buys from the store has had all the minerals removed and is a bad choice. I have a book written by Dr. David Brownstein called “Salt your way to health”.
And you yourself tell us you bring home sea water and take it for the salt benefits. What’s going on here? Mary Sue

that’s bologni. Human body needs SALT. Now the evil governments use refined salt (or table salt) which ha snothing beneficiary for the body. Sea Salt, on the contrary has almost 75 different minerals NOT removed by refining. Sea salt also has Iodine which is a very importnat mineral for the body. It is known as lower blood pressure and fights inflammation in the heart which causes heart-disease. Eat SAE SALT only! Avoid refined salt, refined sugar (brown sugar is fine), and use unbleached flour, in stead of bleached flour.