You Need MINERALS From Foods!! re food cravings

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Try increasing your mineral intake. LOTS of ORGANIC RAW GREENS.

Wheat Grass Juice or Barley Grass Juice powders will help

quench your thirst for salt too. I doubt it will happen overnight.

Give your body 3--6 months to readjust. There is plenty

of sodium in greens too along with all the other minerals we

need. So you are NOT lacking in sodium if you ate,

say, 2-4 pounds of greens + carrots daily. If you look

up the figures, you might think you would get too much

sodium! But this is NOT the same thing as eating rock

salt or sea salt.

 

To get more greens, try salads, juicing, & making a

ground up combination of carrots and greens (like

baby food). A Champion juicer is good for baby

food. Grinding the food up finely releases the nutrients

and flavors by breaking the cell wall--works better

than our own teeth. You NEED to eat ground up

or juiced foods IMMEDIATELY so as to obtain the

nutrients before they oxidize. In other words, don't

let the food/juice sit for an hour or more while you

prepare all sorts of other things. Don't store it in

the refrigerator for 3-6 hours. Sit down and enjoy

it NOW! That is the whole point of preparing foods

like this, so you can obtain the raw nutrition unharmed

by heat, oxygen, and light.

 

Remember, there are trace minerals we need too. And

our body may be giving us the signal (craving) to look

for salts (plural) in order to get the trace minerals we

are often so deficient in. ORGANIC produce does have

more minerals including the trace minerals. Eat a VARIETY

and don't eat them from the same source all the time.

One farmer's field may be deficient in selenium whereas

another farmer's field is not, even though the may be

growing the SAME crops.

 

If I start eating salty foods, not even adding salt

to them, I gain water weight. When I used to

eat pizza, I would gain 10 pounds of water weight

over the next 2 or 3 days and then it took another

2 or 3 days to lose it. I am a SLIM person, so its

easy to tell it was water. Of course, I would eat half a pizza

(or more) back then. I quit that habit because I didn't like

the water gain and the corresponding water loss.

It is unhealthy for that to go on and I can see why

people look so bloated as they age--it is this

water gain/loss cycle occurring over and over due

to salt addiction.

 

By the way LULU, have you read the WARNINGS on

" lo' salt " ?? Look on the box...

 

Don't go for the quick fix, go for the long lasting

cure. It may take longer, but the reward is so

much better!!

 

Eugene

 

PS You might try growing your own veges, greens, etc.

and use ROCK DUST that has the OK for organic farmers.

This will give your garden back the minerals, especially

trace ones, that it is missing or low in. Your produce

will grow like it hever has before and WITHOUT TOXIC

Chemical Fertilizers!!

 

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At 21:19 2003-04-07, you wrote:

>At 05:34 PM 3/31/03 EST, lulu wrote:

> > hi i read with interest re food cravings, i have them all but mostly

> what i

> >am totally in need of i SALT i love it and sometimes i need it so much

> that

> >i just eat it on it's own, i especially like the big sea salt crunchy

> >crystals. i know everyone says it's bad etc.. stroke -hard arteries, high

> >b.p., but i have a very low b.p. and i wonder if perhaps that is why i

> crave

> >it so much, what do you think? if there is a way to come off it with

> >alternative supplements then i will - and by the way i do eat lo' salt most

> >of the time so as not to totally kill myself, also it means i can have a

> bit

> >more of it.

>

>

>Sea salt is supposedly good for you; like you, I've craved salt for ages and

>will eat it straight. Like you, I once upon a time had low blood pressure.

>Now that I'm in my 40's, I have developed high blood pressure.

>

>I wish we could find out what causes these salt cravings.

>

>- Anna