Mike Adams
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 I rarely eat processed salt or any sort of salty snacks, junk foods or restaurant foods. Most restaurants serve food that's overly salty—especially the soups. If you visit a typical family style restaurant, order the soup and taste it. If you don't think it tastes way too salty, then you have become desensitized to salt and really need to move towards a diet of raw, fresh, natural foods that are low in processed salt. At first, you'll think they taste boring, but that's only because you're a salt addict. Over time, your taste will adapt, and you'll begin to enjoy unsalted, natural foods. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And yet frying starches at high temperatures isn't natural at all -- it's a human-invented process for making boring foods like potatoes taste interesting by loading them up with fat and salt.
The salt used in such foods isn't natural either. It's almost entirely processed salt, and even the products that claim to be made from "sea salt" are actually using a white, processed sea salt (not a full-spectrum brown or pink salt like you might find with Celtic Sea salt, which is truly natural). |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Reduce the salt in your diet by putting garlic salt or vegetable salt on the table. Experiment with the many tasty salt alternatives now available or use a combination of spices and various herbs to add zest to your cooking. Take time to read the labels on foods and choose reduced-salt, or preferably no-salt, varieties.
Water is as crucial to our existence as air. Water makes up more than half of our body's weight. Our cells are full of water. Water supports all our body's processes. Water is the basis of blood, and therefore of the transport system of the body. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The first product I found that I really like is the Royal Himalayan Pink Crystals salt. Now, this is a natural full-spectrum salt found in nature. This wasn't generated in a chemical factory. It's not a processed salt. It is a mined salt. It's actually mined out of the earth, out of the mountain range in the Himalayas.
I also want to mention that this salt is a full-spectrum salt, so instead of just getting sodium and chloride, you're getting a full spectrum of trace minerals and macro minerals, as well. |
Mike Adams
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| If you don't think it tastes way too salty, then you have become desensitized to salt and really need to move towards a diet of raw, fresh, natural foods that are low in processed salt. At first, you'll think they taste boring, but that's only because you're a salt addict. Over time, your taste will adapt, and you'll begin to enjoy unsalted, natural foods.
All the common grocery store foods like snack chips, soups, seasoned fish and many others are made with far too much salt in my opinion. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And then finally you've got tons of salt in the whole thing: there's salt in the bacon, there's salt in the cheese and of course there's salt in the burger itself. So you're going to get hypertension and high blood pressure from the salt, plus you'll promote chronic dehydration of your internal organs due to excessive consumption of salt. Then you've got kidney stress, liver stress, uric acid in your blood, suppressed immune system function, impaired oxygen diffusion in lung tissues, and so on. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you get a product from salt fields of France, it tastes different from the salt from fields in New Zealand and different from salt from fields in Australia.
Mike: Why is that?
Heine: It's due to different mineral contents in specific ocean regions. It depends on what the concentrations of different minerals are in a region. You can imagine that for Europe, which is a much more highly industrialized area, the sea water's a little bit different. The closest continent to us is Antarctica, and that's why our product is very, very clean. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It's almost entirely processed salt, and even the products that claim to be made from "sea salt" are actually using a white, processed sea salt (not a full-spectrum brown or pink salt like you might find with Celtic Sea salt, which is truly natural).
Grocery product makers are also adding various chemical additives to their "all natural" products, hiding them under innocent-sounding ingredients that don't raise red flags with consumers. Monosodium glutamate (MSG), for example, is a neurotoxic substance classified as an excitotoxin. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| And then finally you've got tons of salt in the whole thing: there's salt in the bacon, there's salt in the cheese and of course there's salt in the burger itself. So you're going to get hypertension and high blood pressure from the salt, plus you'll promote chronic dehydration of your internal organs due to excessive consumption of salt. Then you've got kidney stress, liver stress, uric acid in your blood, suppressed immune system function, impaired oxygen diffusion in lung tissues, and so on. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| If you get a product from salt fields of France, it tastes different from the salt from fields in New Zealand and different from salt from fields in Australia.
Mike: Why is that?
Heine: It's due to different mineral contents in specific ocean regions. It depends on what the concentrations of different minerals are in a region. You can imagine that for Europe, which is a much more highly industrialized area, the sea water's a little bit different. The closest continent to us is Antarctica, and that's why our product is very, very clean. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 And we do not include it in our recipes, since most of my husband's patients have cardiovascular disease and hypertension, and salt may cause further injury. We have found that most patients readily adjust to the natural flavor of a plant-based diet without salt.
If you miss salt, try vinegar, lemon, pepper, Mrs. Dash (in a variety of blends), Tabasco, or other hot sauces. If you still miss salt, try adding a little Bragg Liquid Aminos (available in health food stores), South River Sweet White Miso, or low-sodium tamari. Try to limit sodium consumption to less than 2,000 mg a day. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| IFOAM rep: The particular part of New Zealand where the salt is made is the Southern Ocean at its starting point. So the salt is made from very nice, clean, raw material. Also, the closest land masses are Antarctica and South America, so it's very free of pollutants.
Mike: Who is sponsoring this [convention] booth?
Heine: New Zealand trade. The idea is to expand our products into the grocery market.
Mike: Can you name a couple of stores where readers can see your product?
Heine: Molly Stone's and Whole Foods. Other than those, we're really in a lot of mom-and-pop stores. |
Stacy Malkan
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 He compared them to salt in cooking. "A little salt on your peas or tomatoes can be good," Dr. Bailey said. "But a lot of salt can have adverse health effects on your blood pressure, and too much can be fatal."24
Unfortunately, mixtures of chemicals with various toxic properties become more complicated than salt. A little bit of hormone-disrupting chemicals mixed with carcinogenic contaminants in the baby shampoo, the bubble bath and the body wash add up — day in and day out. The cosmetics companies insist their products are safe, but what do those claims really mean? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you go visit a restaurant and order a bowl of soup, or if you eat some canned soup from the grocery store and aren't completely bowled over by the amount of salt in that soup, then you are currently suffering from taste inflation. But you can reverse it by slowly eliminating the assault on your senses through manufactured foods, smells and consumer products.
By eliminating these high-salt and high-sugar foods from your diet, and by eliminating the high-perfume products marketed by the personal care and cosmetics industries, you can in fact greatly enhance your sensory acuity. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you're going to use salt at the dinner table or in cooking, go out and get yourself some ocean salt, or what is sometimes called "Celtic salt" or "Sea salt." That is, you want actual salt from the ocean, which is quite complex in its molecular structure. It has a great number of elements -- far more than just sodium and chloride -- and has a far different effect on your body than sodium chloride. In fact, sodium chloride could quite accurately be called a poison in sufficient doses. Each separate element is quite clearly a poison: sodium and chloride. |
John E. Sarno, M.D.
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 In genetically susceptible individuals, ingested salt is less efficiently excreted by the kidneys, leading to retention of sodium and fluid in the arterial system, and increased calcium ion levels in the smooth muscle cells of arterial walls, which elevate blood pressure. For particularly salt-sensitive people, even a little salt does this. Salt-sensitive hypertension is particularly common among African-Americans and in the elderly. Restricting salt intake can normalize blood pressure in some people with volume-related hypertension, but for many others drug therapy is needed. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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Transition Nutrition also offers new gift baskets containing Royal Himalayan salt -- a full-spectrum salt that's loaded with trace minerals and nutritional elements that simply don't exist in processed table salt. I use their salt every single day in my Juice Feasting smoothies (see http://www.newstarget.com/022368.html to learn more).
In all, there are seven different gift baskets available right now. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Personally, I can't touch a soup made by anything other than a gourmet restaurant, and canned soups found at the grocery store are also loaded with salt. Food manufacturers are adding so much salt to everything that millions of people are suffering from hypertension.
Sweet, redefined
We also have sugar inflation in this country. A loaf of bread was once actually bread, not cake. Today, there's so much sugar in bread that it's basically just sponge cake. A muffin was once actually a muffin, and corn bread once tasted sort of like corn. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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| We have found that most patients readily adjust to the natural flavor of a plant-based diet without salt.
If you miss salt, try vinegar, lemon, pepper, Mrs. Dash (in a variety of blends), Tabasco, or other hot sauces. If you still miss salt, try adding a little Bragg Liquid Aminos (available in health food stores), South River Sweet White Miso, or low-sodium tamari. Try to limit sodium consumption to less than 2,000 mg a day. Your choices are easier when you know the salt content of various seasonings. |
Ann N. Martin
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 Sodium Pets usually receive an adequate amount of salt through their diet and therefore adding salt is seldom necessary. Sodium regulates the fluid balance in the body and it is extremely important in maintaining blood pressure. Sodium deficiencies may result in muscle cramps, fatigue, hair loss, dry skin, and slow growth. The main source of sodium is table salt. Other sources include, ham, bacon, canned sardines, and snack foods.
Zinc Zinc is an antioxidant. Zinc promotes the healing of wounds and normal growth development. |
Hyla Cass
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 If you crave salt, this may be a sign of low thyroid and adrenal function. salt is particularly important for balanced function of many of the body's glands and organs. (The thyroid and adrenal glands make hormones that play roles in your energy levels and help keep you at an ideal weight; reduced function in either can lead to fatigue and weight gain.) Rather than reaching for the potato chips, though, add pure sea salt to your food, in moderation. But if your doctor has ordered a low-sodium diet for you, stick with that.
WHICH DIET IS BEST FOR YOU? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mined from natural salt deposits, these salts contain an array of health-promoting minerals (including trace minerals), far beyond the sodium and chloride found in typical processed salt. Find some sources for sea salt and trace minerals at: http://www.WebSeed.com/Trace_minerals.html.
At this point, you're probably getting some ideas about how you can defend yourself against the flu by avoiding many of these stresses. If you could live a stress-free life (which is probably impossible these days), you might never get sick at all. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Research has demonstrated that this is especially true for African Americans; their blood pressure is very reactive to salt. Now, salt also got a bad rap for a while, especially when it was first linked to high blood pressure, but it's a critical component of your body chemistry. It regulates fluid balance and nerve cell function. You can't survive without it. But when people who are especially reactive to it eat a diet high in salt, it can contribute to high blood pressure. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 The Sodium Factor
When it comes to diets, here is the real skinny on salt. Sodium is a mineral used by your body to regulate fluid balance, contraction of muscles and nerve impulses. It is measured in milligrams (mg). Table salt is 40 percent sodium (Na+), and one teaspoon of table salt contains 2,300 mg of sodium. The National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences recommends an approximate daily range of 1,100 to 3,300 mg of sodium for adults. For people with high blood pressure, hypertension experts are recommending no more than 2,300 mg of sodium a day. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It also impairs the mobility of water in your body, because the water will automatically be attracted to the salt. Wherever salt goes, water follows. So, if you're eating a lot of salt, it could mean that water is not going to get to your organs and cells because it's all tied up in the salt.
Often, sick people say, "I'm going to have some chicken soup" because that's supposed to be good for a flu. Chicken soup is actually one of the worst things that you can eat when you're sick due to its high sodium content. |
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