Guest guest Posted August 10, 2006 Report Share Posted August 10, 2006 <<<I was just like that until I cut out salt, spices and spicy condiments such as onions, garlic, and jalapenos. I suddenly was not hungry and I have been releasing weight for the last month. Averaging about 3 pounds per week.>>> That is AWESOME Sheri! 3lbs a week! No hunger? WOW you are doing what is right for you for sure. I DO use salt- " Real Salt " sea salt with the minerals left intact. I was under the impression this was a necessary thing....well at least according to a book I read recently called " Water and Salt " that I bought on Amazon. It touted Himalayan salt as an essential item in daily life. Do most of you NOT use salt anymore??? That would be a hard one for me to give up. Unsalted tomatoes and cukes? Say it isn't so!!!! Donna Anne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 10, 2006 Report Share Posted August 10, 2006 rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of Donna Masi Wednesday, August 09, 2006 6:44 PM rawfood [Raw Food] Re: cravings / hungry That is AWESOME Sheri! 3lbs a week! No hunger? WOW you are doing what is right for you for sure. I DO use salt- " Real Salt " sea salt with the minerals left intact. I was under the impression this was a necessary thing....well at least according to a book I read recently called " Water and Salt " that I bought on Amazon. It touted Himalayan salt as an essential item in daily life. Do most of you NOT use salt anymore??? That would be a hard one for me to give up. Unsalted tomatoes and cukes? Say it isn't so!!!! Donna Anne _____ We do not digest any substantive quantity of sodium chloride, common salt. Himalayan salt is 100% myth, it does not exist. There is not a single working salt mine in the region from which this material is said to come. It is 100% marketing. Sorry to burst a few bubbles on this one. Elchanan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 10, 2006 Report Share Posted August 10, 2006 > _____ > We do not digest any substantive quantity of sodium chloride, common salt. > > Himalayan salt is 100% myth, it does not exist. There is not a single working salt mine in the > region from which this material is said to come. It is 100% marketing. Sorry to burst a few > bubbles on this one. > > Elchanan > Himalayan salt might come from mines in Pakistan, India or China. I have seen the bio-assays and it is out of balance and incomplete compared to seawater and sun dried sea salts (celtic, desouza, etc.) which makes it kinda useless. Same goes for Redmond RealSalt, which also contains a couple of toxic radioactive elements. Some folks are using seawater and sea salts as a supplement in growing grasses, sprouts and leafy greens, which is potentially a good way to assimilate the full spectrum of minerals separate from the sodium and chloride. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 10, 2006 Report Share Posted August 10, 2006 > Himalayan salt is 100% myth, it does not exist. There is not a single working salt mine in the > region from which this material is said to come. It is 100% marketing. Sorry to burst a few > bubbles on this one. > > Elchanan > Incidentally I heard a similar case for Goji berries, that there is not much Goji in Tibet, that it mostly comes from China (aka wolfberries). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 10, 2006 Report Share Posted August 10, 2006 rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of redlunarmoon Thursday, August 10, 2006 1:55 AM rawfood [Raw Food] Re: cravings / hungry Incidentally I heard a similar case for Goji berries, that there is not much Goji in Tibet, that it mostly comes from China (aka wolfberries). _____ Could be, I haven't investigated that one. I'm not in search of any " magic bullets " . Elchanan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 10, 2006 Report Share Posted August 10, 2006 rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of redlunarmoon Thursday, August 10, 2006 1:53 AM rawfood [Raw Food] Re: cravings / hungry Himalayan salt might come from mines in Pakistan, India or China. I have seen the bio-assays and it is out of balance and incomplete compared to seawater and sun dried sea salts (celtic, desouza, etc.) which makes it kinda useless. Same goes for Redmond RealSalt, which also contains a couple of toxic radioactive elements. Some folks are using seawater and sea salts as a supplement in growing grasses, sprouts and leafy greens, which is potentially a good way to assimilate the full spectrum of minerals separate from the sodium and chloride. _____ " Himalayan " salt can come from any bloody salt mine on Earth, it's a label, nothing more. So whatever was tested one day may be different the next. As for the minerals in these other salt mixtures/source ... 1. They all consist almost entirely of sodium chloride, both by mass and by volume. 2. The other minerals are almost all in their ionic (inorganic, in the chemistry sense of the term) form, and therefore our bodies do not digest them. There are many great myths out there in the world of health and nutrition, and in front of almost every great myth are products. There is NO salt product that is good for us. The human body -- and indeed all the large terrestrial mammals, perceive these ionically bonded salt compounds as foreign matter, often highly caustic (as with sodium chloride). NONE of these products is viable food for our species. If you were willing to study a bit of geology, and specifically to explore the distribution of salt (sodium chloride) and mineral salts in general over the surface of the Earth (the land masses), you would rapidly discover that the majority of the surface present virtually no easily obtainable salts of any kind, and particularly almost no sodium chloride. In other words, life on Earth has done just fine for billions of years without benefit of any substantive quantities, or extractible quantities, of any form of salt mixture. This is ALL modern pseudoscience, propping up various lines of modern-day snake oil. Green leaves possess the " technology " to disassemble SMALL quantities of mineral salts, to break them down into a form usable to themselves and to us. We possess no such capacity, we must receive the salts in an already usable form. This is just basic biochemistry. And even in the case of green leafy plants, if there is too much salt in the soil, the plants, for the most part, perish. The ancient Romans knew this well. Following their conquest of Carthage, a perennial enemy on the north African coast, they plowed salt into the soil, that nothing would grow there for a thousand years. And from that day to this, more than 2000 years later, virtually nothing green can grow in the area they plowed. Save your money, take a friend to Disneyland instead. Best to all, Elchanan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 11, 2006 Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 <<<We do not digest any substantive quantity of sodium chloride, common salt. Himalayan salt is 100% myth, it does not exist. There is not a single working salt mine in the region from which this material is said to come. It is 100% marketing. Sorry to burst a few bubbles on this one. Elchanan>>> WOW- I did not know that!! How did you find this out? I am glad I didn't order any of it at $30 a lb!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 11, 2006 Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 Someone else did the original research, followed the history from the introduction a number of years ago, learned what region in the Himalayas the salt is supposed to come from, then tried to find a working salt mine. One must go quite a distance to find one ... to another country!!! I verified a portion of the information on my own. Best, Elchanan rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of Donna Masi Thursday, August 10, 2006 5:39 PM rawfood [Raw Food] Re: cravings / hungry <<<We do not digest any substantive quantity of sodium chloride, common salt. Himalayan salt is 100% myth, it does not exist. There is not a single working salt mine in the region from which this material is said to come. It is 100% marketing. Sorry to burst a few bubbles on this one. Elchanan>>> WOW- I did not know that!! How did you find this out? I am glad I didn't order any of it at $30 a lb!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 12, 2006 Report Share Posted August 12, 2006 > " Himalayan " salt can come from any bloody salt mine on Earth, it's a label, nothing more. So > whatever was tested one day may be different the next. > > As for the minerals in these other salt mixtures/source ... > > 1. They all consist almost entirely of sodium chloride, both by mass and by volume. > 2. The other minerals are almost all in their ionic (inorganic, in the chemistry sense of the > term) form, and therefore our bodies do not digest them. > interesting I would like to gain more understanding on this, if the minerals in salt are ionic and our bodies do not digest them can you tell me in what form are vegetable based minerals, and what form the minerals in our cells are? I'm just curious what the term is so I can do a google on it. Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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