Salt: It does a body no good (WAS: Unrefined sea salt v. refined sodium chloride (huge difference)

[Guest guest]

Please please please ... don't be taken in by this material.

 

It is true that sodium chloride is one mineral salt, and that there are many

other substances in

chemistry called " mineral salts " . But sodium chloride is sodium chloride, the

body cannot digest

it regardless of where it comes from or what else is in the mixture. The fact

that sodium

chloride is accompanied by 1-2% of other materials that MAY be useful does not

changed the

terribly harmful nature of the sodium chloride itself. The authors of this (and

other) articles

cannot, for all their wishful thinking and marketing zeal, change the laws of

physics, nor the

fundamental designs of plants and animals, respectively.

 

Suppose I were to say to you, " Here is a wonderful product. True, the medium,

98% of the

product's material, is caustic to your system and will have serious " side

effects " . But the

other 1-2%, wow, what a find! You've just gotta eat this to be healthy! " Any

sane person would

immediately realize that no matter what is in the 1-2%, consuming 98% caustic

material is not a

good idea at all.

 

If salt products -- any salt products -- substance were sold as a drug, the FDA

would require a

" side-effects " warning! But because the same substances are sold as food, no

such warning is

required. This is actually true. Example: acetic acid is sold to chemistry labs

in a jug labeled

with a skull and cross-bones: DANGEROUS!! But in a 5% solution with water, it is

renamed

" vinegar " and considered food! So as the entire population suffers from acidosis

-- overwhelming

the body with acid-forming substances, we all collectively take a substance that

contains

NOTHING other than acid and water, and label if food!

 

So it is with all the " wonderful " salt products -- sea salt, Celtic salt,

" Himalayan " salt, and

so forth. When one adds sodium chloride to water, the water becomes heavier .

For example, sea

water is heavier than fresh water -- always -- at any given altitude

(atmospheric pressure).

This is why ANYONE can float in the Dead Sea.

 

When we add salt to the blood (roughly 85% water):

 

- the blood literally becomes heavier, and a bit thicker

 

- the burden on the heart increases 24x7 to move the same volume of blood the

same distance

 

- the pressure in the circulatory system rises, at least a bit

 

- the blood becomes more abrasive against the walls of the blood vessels

 

- the capacity of the blood to absorb other genuinely necessary materials --

including usable

minerals!!! -- into solution is diminished. A given volume of water can only

hold so much

material in solution, period.

 

and many, many other immediate, unavoidable negative effects. These are not

" side-effects " , they

are direct effects, occurring in 100% of cases. The laws of physics so mandate.

And as I've

written previously, the body simply cannot digest (break down) nor make other

constructive use

of ionically bonded salt. The correct quantity of ionically bonded salt in the

human diet is

zero.

 

The minerals you seek are found in adequate quantities AND in a digestible form

in fruits and

greens, particularly if these foods come from decent sources. An excess of any

material,

minerals or otherwise, constitutes foreign matter and places an additional

eliminative burden

upon the body.

 

And going a step further, what has let you into a self-diagnosis that you are

deficient in this

or that mineral? And even if you are, do you understand the cause of the

deficiency?

 

In almost every case when someone does turn up deficient in some mineral, the

first cause is not

diet. Rather, the first cause is leaching from the body. When we consume

primarily acid-forming

foods (as most Westerners do), the body MUST " lighten " or " weaken " the acids

before the residue

can be safely eliminated. To accomplish this, and in the absence of a RELATIVELY

insufficient

supply of alkalizing minerals, the body draws against its own mineral reserves

-- primarily

calcium stored in the bones and in other lean tissue, but also magnesium and

other substances.

 

By " relatively insufficient supply of alkalizing minerals " , I mean, in

proportion to the volume

of acid-forming material consumed. Once we go raw, or even low-fat vegan, we

dramatically reduce

the volume of acid-forming material we introduce into the system, and this

leaching process

rapidly dissipates. Then, and ONLY then, can the body begin to rebuild its

mineral reserves.

Until the leaching stops, there is NOTHING one can eat that will enable the body

to replenish

its reserves, the metabolic capacity simply cannot keep pace with the rate of

use of the

minerals.

 

Example: menses. Western women dump enormous quantities of minerals during

menses. This occurs,

not because this phenomenon is biologically " normal " , but because it is

ubiquitous -- women's

bodies are so filled with foreign matter, their bodies use any available avenue

for dumping the

trash. And as a result, most women are iron deficient. Now, mainstream thinking

would have us

believe that the answer is to consume more, or " better " , or " different " iron

sources.

 

But the body can NEVER metabolize enough iron to offset the ongoing loss in

menses. The ONLY

viable solution is to stop the loss, the leaching of these essential minerals

and other

resources from the body. And this can be accomplished ONLY by reducing (or

stopping) the

ingestion of trash in the first place.

 

In other words, the solution lies at its cause, not in any form of treatment.

The mindset that

we must " take " or eat extra minerals or vitamins or whatever the " deficiency of

the month " may

be, always leads to treatment -- the sale of useless and indeed

counterproductive products to a

terribly uneducated population. (No insult intended, but when was the last time

YOU took a math,

physics, or chemistry course -- and understood what was being taught?)

 

Other factors are also important WRT mineral utilization and construction of

healthy tissue:

 

- Inadequate sunshine adversely effects metabolism of calcium (and therefore

many subsequent

metabolic activities). There is no food that substitutes for sunshine, though

many would

advocate otherwise.

 

- Physical activity -- load-bearing and/or impactful activity in particular --

stimulates the

body to construct bone, muscle, and other lean tissue. NOTHING ELSE STIMULATES

THE BODY TO

INCREASE SUCH LEAN TISSUE.Example: 100% astronauts experience bone density

loss, even though

they may be in space for only a few days. Why? In a " zero-gravity " environment,

there is no

" natural resistance " when we perform normal human activities. So not only does

the body not

construct NEW lean tissue, it actually loses lean tissue, and quickly. Pertinent

to our

discussion here, no food or other ingestible substance substitutes for such

physical activity.

 

From my own experience working with people, salt may very well be one of the

most challenging

food habituations in modern society. Why? Salts in any quantity -- and here I DO

mean ionically

bonded mineral salts in general -- overwhelm the taste buds; the tongue and

taste buds become

inflamed and swollen, and the taste buds become relatively ineffective. We lose

at least a

portion of our capacity to use our sense of taste distinguish the best foods for

us, to

distinguish satiation, to distinguish thirst from hunger. People experience a

" need " for more

spices and other condiments in order to " enjoy " the foods they consume. The

mouth becomes dry

(relatively) and no longer produces well balanced saliva or metabolizes

carbohydrates properly.

 

Further, the thermal capacity of the blood itself -- the capacity of the blood

to heat and cool

the body -- is adversely effected by the presence of even a minute quantity of

salt in the

blood. And the list of adverse effects goes on. Consuming sodium chloride,

regardless of what

may be mixed in with it, is a VERY expensive proposition.

 

So to create health:

 

1. Stop performing uninformed self-diagnosis.

2. Eat primarily fruits and greens. Cut the fat and the protein; cut the salt

and the

spices/condiments.

3. Get plenty of sunshine and fresh air.

4. Become physically active, at whatever your present capacity may tolerate.

5. Sleep and REST well.

6. Seek the best relationships you can imagine.

7. Laugh out loud whenever possible -- no matter who else is present.

8. Enjoy life!

 

Best to all,

Elchanan

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Thank you Elchanan, I am learning a great deal from your posts. I find your

posts challenge my thinking, and starts me asking questions, which of course

leads to more learning. I can see that you put a lot of time into your replies,

and I want you to know it is appreciated!

 

Leah

 

Elchanan <VLinfo wrote:

Please please please ... don't be taken in by this material.

 

It is true that sodium chloride is one mineral salt, and that there are many

other substances in

chemistry called " mineral salts " . But sodium chloride is sodium chloride, the

body cannot digest

it regardless of where it comes from or what else is in the mixture. The fact

that sodium

chloride is accompanied by 1-2% of other materials that MAY be useful does not

changed the

terribly harmful nature of the sodium chloride itself. The authors of this (and

other) articles

cannot, for all their wishful thinking and marketing zeal, change the laws of

physics, nor the

fundamental designs of plants and animals, respectively.

 

Suppose I were to say to you, " Here is a wonderful product. True, the medium,

98% of the

product's material, is caustic to your system and will have serious " side

effects " . But the

other 1-2%, wow, what a find! You've just gotta eat this to be healthy! " Any

sane person would

immediately realize that no matter what is in the 1-2%, consuming 98% caustic

material is not a

good idea at all.

 

If salt products -- any salt products -- substance were sold as a drug, the FDA

would require a

" side-effects " warning! But because the same substances are sold as food, no

such warning is

required. This is actually true. Example: acetic acid is sold to chemistry labs

in a jug labeled

with a skull and cross-bones: DANGEROUS!! But in a 5% solution with water, it is

renamed

" vinegar " and considered food! So as the entire population suffers from acidosis

-- overwhelming

the body with acid-forming substances, we all collectively take a substance that

contains

NOTHING other than acid and water, and label if food!

 

So it is with all the " wonderful " salt products -- sea salt, Celtic salt,

" Himalayan " salt, and

so forth. When one adds sodium chloride to water, the water becomes heavier .

For example, sea

water is heavier than fresh water -- always -- at any given altitude

(atmospheric pressure).

This is why ANYONE can float in the Dead Sea.

 

When we add salt to the blood (roughly 85% water):

 

- the blood literally becomes heavier, and a bit thicker

 

- the burden on the heart increases 24x7 to move the same volume of blood the

same distance

 

- the pressure in the circulatory system rises, at least a bit

 

- the blood becomes more abrasive against the walls of the blood vessels

 

- the capacity of the blood to absorb other genuinely necessary materials --

including usable

minerals!!! -- into solution is diminished. A given volume of water can only

hold so much

material in solution, period.

 

and many, many other immediate, unavoidable negative effects. These are not

" side-effects " , they

are direct effects, occurring in 100% of cases. The laws of physics so mandate.

And as I've

written previously, the body simply cannot digest (break down) nor make other

constructive use

of ionically bonded salt. The correct quantity of ionically bonded salt in the

human diet is

zero.

 

The minerals you seek are found in adequate quantities AND in a digestible form

in fruits and

greens, particularly if these foods come from decent sources. An excess of any

material,

minerals or otherwise, constitutes foreign matter and places an additional

eliminative burden

upon the body.

 

And going a step further, what has let you into a self-diagnosis that you are

deficient in this

or that mineral? And even if you are, do you understand the cause of the

deficiency?

 

In almost every case when someone does turn up deficient in some mineral, the

first cause is not

diet. Rather, the first cause is leaching from the body. When we consume

primarily acid-forming

foods (as most Westerners do), the body MUST " lighten " or " weaken " the acids

before the residue

can be safely eliminated. To accomplish this, and in the absence of a RELATIVELY

insufficient

supply of alkalizing minerals, the body draws against its own mineral reserves

-- primarily

calcium stored in the bones and in other lean tissue, but also magnesium and

other substances.

 

By " relatively insufficient supply of alkalizing minerals " , I mean, in

proportion to the volume

of acid-forming material consumed. Once we go raw, or even low-fat vegan, we

dramatically reduce

the volume of acid-forming material we introduce into the system, and this

leaching process

rapidly dissipates. Then, and ONLY then, can the body begin to rebuild its

mineral reserves.

Until the leaching stops, there is NOTHING one can eat that will enable the body

to replenish

its reserves, the metabolic capacity simply cannot keep pace with the rate of

use of the

minerals.

 

Example: menses. Western women dump enormous quantities of minerals during

menses. This occurs,

not because this phenomenon is biologically " normal " , but because it is

ubiquitous -- women's

bodies are so filled with foreign matter, their bodies use any available avenue

for dumping the

trash. And as a result, most women are iron deficient. Now, mainstream thinking

would have us

believe that the answer is to consume more, or " better " , or " different " iron

sources.

 

But the body can NEVER metabolize enough iron to offset the ongoing loss in

menses. The ONLY

viable solution is to stop the loss, the leaching of these essential minerals

and other

resources from the body. And this can be accomplished ONLY by reducing (or

stopping) the

ingestion of trash in the first place.

 

In other words, the solution lies at its cause, not in any form of treatment.

The mindset that

we must " take " or eat extra minerals or vitamins or whatever the " deficiency of

the month " may

be, always leads to treatment -- the sale of useless and indeed

counterproductive products to a

terribly uneducated population. (No insult intended, but when was the last time

YOU took a math,

physics, or chemistry course -- and understood what was being taught?)

 

Other factors are also important WRT mineral utilization and construction of

healthy tissue:

 

- Inadequate sunshine adversely effects metabolism of calcium (and therefore

many subsequent

metabolic activities). There is no food that substitutes for sunshine, though

many would

advocate otherwise.

 

- Physical activity -- load-bearing and/or impactful activity in particular --

stimulates the

body to construct bone, muscle, and other lean tissue. NOTHING ELSE STIMULATES

THE BODY TO

INCREASE SUCH LEAN TISSUE.Example: 100% astronauts experience bone density loss,

even though

they may be in space for only a few days. Why? In a " zero-gravity " environment,

there is no

" natural resistance " when we perform normal human activities. So not only does

the body not

construct NEW lean tissue, it actually loses lean tissue, and quickly. Pertinent

to our

discussion here, no food or other ingestible substance substitutes for such

physical activity.

 

From my own experience working with people, salt may very well be one of the

most challenging

food habituations in modern society. Why? Salts in any quantity -- and here I DO

mean ionically

bonded mineral salts in general -- overwhelm the taste buds; the tongue and

taste buds become

inflamed and swollen, and the taste buds become relatively ineffective. We lose

at least a

portion of our capacity to use our sense of taste distinguish the best foods for

us, to

distinguish satiation, to distinguish thirst from hunger. People experience a

" need " for more

spices and other condiments in order to " enjoy " the foods they consume. The

mouth becomes dry

(relatively) and no longer produces well balanced saliva or metabolizes

carbohydrates properly.

 

Further, the thermal capacity of the blood itself -- the capacity of the blood

to heat and cool

the body -- is adversely effected by the presence of even a minute quantity of

salt in the

blood. And the list of adverse effects goes on. Consuming sodium chloride,

regardless of what

may be mixed in with it, is a VERY expensive proposition.

 

So to create health:

 

1. Stop performing uninformed self-diagnosis.

2. Eat primarily fruits and greens. Cut the fat and the protein; cut the salt

and the

spices/condiments.

3. Get plenty of sunshine and fresh air.

4. Become physically active, at whatever your present capacity may tolerate.

5. Sleep and REST well.

6. Seek the best relationships you can imagine.

7. Laugh out loud whenever possible -- no matter who else is present.

8. Enjoy life!

 

Best to all,

Elchanan

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I'd like to second this - it's extremely valuable to

have someone so well informed who's prepared to put

the time into explaining their views so clearly, thank

you very much!

 

--- Leah Morrison <l_morrison2002 wrote:

 

> Thank you Elchanan, I am learning a great deal from

> your posts. I find your posts challenge my

> thinking, and starts me asking questions, which of

> course leads to more learning. I can see that you

> put a lot of time into your replies, and I want you

> to know it is appreciated!

>

> Leah

>

> Elchanan <VLinfo wrote:

> Please please please ... don't be taken in

> by this material.

>

> It is true that sodium chloride is one mineral salt,

> and that there are many other substances in

> chemistry called " mineral salts " . But sodium

> chloride is sodium chloride, the body cannot digest

> it regardless of where it comes from or what else is

> in the mixture. The fact that sodium

> chloride is accompanied by 1-2% of other materials

> that MAY be useful does not changed the

> terribly harmful nature of the sodium chloride

> itself. The authors of this (and other) articles

> cannot, for all their wishful thinking and marketing

> zeal, change the laws of physics, nor the

> fundamental designs of plants and animals,

> respectively.

>

> Suppose I were to say to you, " Here is a wonderful

> product. True, the medium, 98% of the

> product's material, is caustic to your system and

> will have serious " side effects " . But the

> other 1-2%, wow, what a find! You've just gotta eat

> this to be healthy! " Any sane person would

> immediately realize that no matter what is in the

> 1-2%, consuming 98% caustic material is not a

> good idea at all.

>

> If salt products -- any salt products -- substance

> were sold as a drug, the FDA would require a

> " side-effects " warning! But because the same

> substances are sold as food, no such warning is

> required. This is actually true. Example: acetic

> acid is sold to chemistry labs in a jug labeled

> with a skull and cross-bones: DANGEROUS!! But in a

> 5% solution with water, it is renamed

> " vinegar " and considered food! So as the entire

> population suffers from acidosis -- overwhelming

> the body with acid-forming substances, we all

> collectively take a substance that contains

> NOTHING other than acid and water, and label if

> food!

>

> So it is with all the " wonderful " salt products --

> sea salt, Celtic salt, " Himalayan " salt, and

> so forth. When one adds sodium chloride to water,

> the water becomes heavier . For example, sea

> water is heavier than fresh water -- always -- at

> any given altitude (atmospheric pressure).

> This is why ANYONE can float in the Dead Sea.

>

> When we add salt to the blood (roughly 85% water):

>

> - the blood literally becomes heavier, and a bit

> thicker

>

> - the burden on the heart increases 24x7 to move the

> same volume of blood the same distance

>

> - the pressure in the circulatory system rises, at

> least a bit

>

> - the blood becomes more abrasive against the walls

> of the blood vessels

>

> - the capacity of the blood to absorb other

> genuinely necessary materials -- including usable

> minerals!!! -- into solution is diminished. A given

> volume of water can only hold so much

> material in solution, period.

>

> and many, many other immediate, unavoidable negative

> effects. These are not " side-effects " , they

> are direct effects, occurring in 100% of cases. The

> laws of physics so mandate. And as I've

> written previously, the body simply cannot digest

> (break down) nor make other constructive use

> of ionically bonded salt. The correct quantity of

> ionically bonded salt in the human diet is

> zero.

>

> The minerals you seek are found in adequate

> quantities AND in a digestible form in fruits and

> greens, particularly if these foods come from decent

> sources. An excess of any material,

> minerals or otherwise, constitutes foreign matter

> and places an additional eliminative burden

> upon the body.

>

> And going a step further, what has let you into a

> self-diagnosis that you are deficient in this

> or that mineral? And even if you are, do you

> understand the cause of the deficiency?

>

> In almost every case when someone does turn up

> deficient in some mineral, the first cause is not

> diet. Rather, the first cause is leaching from the

> body. When we consume primarily acid-forming

> foods (as most Westerners do), the body MUST

> " lighten " or " weaken " the acids before the residue

> can be safely eliminated. To accomplish this, and in

> the absence of a RELATIVELY insufficient

> supply of alkalizing minerals, the body draws

> against its own mineral reserves -- primarily

> calcium stored in the bones and in other lean

> tissue, but also magnesium and other substances.

>

> By " relatively insufficient supply of alkalizing

> minerals " , I mean, in proportion to the volume

> of acid-forming material consumed. Once we go raw,

> or even low-fat vegan, we dramatically reduce

> the volume of acid-forming material we introduce

> into the system, and this leaching process

> rapidly dissipates. Then, and ONLY then, can the

> body begin to rebuild its mineral reserves.

> Until the leaching stops, there is NOTHING one can

> eat that will enable the body to replenish

> its reserves, the metabolic capacity simply cannot

> keep pace with the rate of use of the

> minerals.

>

> Example: menses. Western women dump enormous

> quantities of minerals during menses. This occurs,

> not because this phenomenon is biologically

> " normal " , but because it is ubiquitous -- women's

> bodies are so filled with foreign matter, their

> bodies use any available avenue for dumping the

> trash. And as a result, most women are iron

> deficient. Now, mainstream thinking would have us

> believe that the answer is to consume more, or

> " better " , or " different " iron sources.

>

> But the body can NEVER metabolize enough iron to

> offset the ongoing loss in menses. The ONLY

> viable solution is to stop the loss, the leaching of

> these essential minerals and other

> resources from the body. And this can be

> accomplished ONLY by reducing (or stopping) the

> ingestion of trash in the first place.

>

> In other words, the solution lies at its cause, not

> in any form of treatment. The mindset that

> we must " take " or eat extra minerals or vitamins or

> whatever the " deficiency of the month " may

> be, always leads to treatment -- the sale of useless

> and indeed counterproductive products to a

> terribly uneducated population. (No insult intended,

> but when was the last time YOU took a math,

> physics, or chemistry course -- and understood what

> was being taught?)

>

> Other factors are also important WRT mineral

> utilization and construction of healthy tissue:

>

> - Inadequate sunshine adversely effects metabolism

> of calcium (and therefore many subsequent

> metabolic activities). There is no food that

> substitutes for sunshine, though many would

> advocate otherwise.

>

> - Physical activity -- load-bearing and/or impactful

> activity in particular -- stimulates the

> body to construct bone, muscle, and other lean

> tissue. NOTHING ELSE STIMULATES THE BODY TO

> INCREASE SUCH LEAN TISSUE.Example: 100% astronauts

> experience bone density loss, even though

> they may be in space for only a few days. Why? In a

> " zero-gravity " environment, there is no

> " natural resistance " when we perform normal human

> activities. So not only does the body not

> construct NEW lean tissue, it actually loses lean

> tissue, and quickly. Pertinent to our

> discussion here, no food or other ingestible

> substance substitutes for such physical activity.

>

> From my own experience working with people, salt may

> very well be one of the most challenging

> food habituations in modern society. Why? Salts in

> any quantity -- and here I DO mean ionically

> bonded mineral salts in general -- overwhelm the

> taste buds; the tongue and taste buds become

> inflamed and swollen, and the taste buds become

> relatively ineffective. We lose at least a

> portion of our capacity to use our sense of taste

> distinguish the best foods for us, to

> distinguish satiation, to distinguish thirst from

> hunger. People experience a " need " for more

> spices and other condiments in order to " enjoy " the

> foods they consume. The mouth becomes dry

> (relatively) and no longer produces well balanced

> saliva or metabolizes carbohydrates properly.

>

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Monday, August 14, 2006 8:05 AM

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Re: [Raw Food] Salt: It does a body no good (WAS: Unrefined sea salt v.

refined sodium

chloride (huge difference)

 

Thank you Elchanan, I am learning a great deal from your posts. I find your

posts challenge my

thinking, and starts me asking questions, which of course leads to more

learning. I can see that

you put a lot of time into your replies, and I want you to know it is

appreciated!

 

Leah

________________

Thank you!

Elchanan