HEALTH: AMA's campaign against salt fails to recognize health benefits of sea salt and trace minerals (DIET, RECIPE)

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AMA's campaign against salt fails to recognize health benefits of sea

salt and trace minerals

www.NewsTarget.com

Originally published July 18 2006

You may have heard the recent news that the AMA has publicly come out

against excessive sodium consumption and salt in particular. Suddenly,

the alternative health community is engaged in a whirlwind of debate on

the topic. But wait, if salt is a major risk factor in heart and renal

diseases, why is anyone upset?

Quite simply, the issue is that not all sources of sodium and salt are

the same. As far as the body is concerned, there is no connection

between the chemically-cleansed sodium chloride table salt you buy in

the supermarket, which is added to virtually every processed food you

buy, and the mineral rich organic sea salt available in health food

stores. One can kill you; the other heals you. In fact, it's essential

for life.

One point everyone can agree on is that the body needs sodium to

function. It is the main component of the body's extra-cellular fluids,

and it helps carry nutrients into the cells. Sodium also helps regulate

other body functions, such as blood pressure and fluid volume, and works

on the lining of blood vessels to keep the pressure balance normal.

Everyone can also agree that just like anything else, salt or sodium

should not be consumed in excess. (But then again, that's true of water

and oxygen as well.) Which brings us back to why the AMA came out with a

warning: Americans are consuming ever higher amounts of sodium, up to

6,000 milligrams a day, instead of the recommended 500 to 2,000

milligrams per day. These high amounts, in a form that is unfriendly to

the human body and with no ancillary mineral benefits, are what lead to

serious health problems. However, this is not necessarily the heart of

the debate. The issue is that the AMA is against all forms of salt,

which could threaten to obscure salt's importance and to confuse

thoughtful consumers.

To further explain, standard table salt is highly refined, chemically

cleansed, and unfriendly to the human body. Unrefined sea salt, on the

other hand, is a naturally occurring complex of sodium chloride, which

includes major minerals such as calcium and magnesium and a complete

complement of essential trace minerals. This is the form of salt the

body is designed to utilize - having been the salt of choice since

humans first walked the earth. Refined table salt, on the other hand, is

a modern invention, artificially designed to look white and pour easily.

The human body doesn't like it.

This is very similar to the vitamin dilemma. The best vitamin

supplements are full complexes that can be absorbed into the body

because they mimic how they are found in nature. Vitamin E, for

instance, is usually sold as d-alpha-tocopheol (dl-alpha if you buy

synthetic), but vitamin E naturally exists as a complex of at least

eight components - 4 tocopherols and 4 tocotrienols, of which d-alpha is

at best the sixth most potent (source: VitaminRetailer.com).

Likewise, the vitamin C found in a lemon does not exist as ascorbic

acid, but as a complex that includes bioflavonoids and calcium. You will

notice that now most vitamin C supplements contain added bioflavonoids

and calcium because over time supplement manufacturers have learned that

the body doesn't utilize pure ascorbic acid without the rest of the

vitamin C complex present. But nature had it right from the very

beginning. Lemons contain the full complex; oranges contain the full

complex; and grapefruit contain the full complex. Similar to complex

vitamins, unrefined natural sea salt is also a complex, one that

contains the full spectrum of trace minerals that are essential for life

but lacking in our modern diet.

Here we get to the heart of the debate: trace minerals.

The issue of getting enough trace minerals in our diet should not be

taken lightly. Traditionally, eating fresh grains, fruits, and

vegetables grown in nutrient-rich soil, drinking mineral rich water, and

including naturally occurring forms of raw salt in the diet have

provided the full spectrum of ionically-charged trace minerals necessary

for life.

Unfortunately, naturally occurring, nutrient-rich soil is almost

non-existent on commercial farms and bottled water is mostly devoid of

trace minerals. Key trace minerals now missing from the modern diet

include copper, tin, silver, gold, and lithium. The entire burden has

shifted to naturally occurring salt and/or trace mineral supplements.

Recently, trace minerals in the news include selenium for preventing

cancer, boron for preventing osteoporosis, and chromium for regulating

blood sugar levels. Of course, finding the right source of trace

minerals is tricky, but that is another topic.

In the end, as the scientific community debates on whether sodium

chloride causes high blood pressure or if sodium bicarbonate (baking

soda) is a better alternative, others will remind consumers that going

back to nature is the key. Although we can't rely on our fruits and

vegetables any more for minerals, we still have a natural alternative:

unrefined sea salt. Of course, at least everyone can all agree on one

thing: a healthy diet is a diet in moderation.

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[Guest guest]

HI guys,

I am not picking on you mouse, just this article from Mike .

Such misinformation, pushed onto an already duped public. Mike is very

crafty at what he writes but unfortunately he isn't being very upfront

and honest. But then he makes his living by selling not only these lies

but also supplements and supposedly worldly wonderful nutriceutical

garbage that your body just can't live without.

Salt is salt is salt, it is all sodium chloride - NaCl. Even sea salt

and Himalayan salt are 97 -99% NaCl. Salt is caustic, it is a toxin to

the human body. Many people, apparently including Mike, try to make all

this sound really scientific by mentioning salt and sodium in the same

breath like they are one and the same thing. This is just not true.

Sodium is an ionic element, salt is a combination of elements bonded

with an ionic bond - Na^+ Cl^- . Notice the little + and - signs? These

designate the type of ion that these two elements happen to represent.

The plus and the minus seek each other out and create an ionic bond that

the human body cannot break down. Salt and sodium are not the same

period. To even infer that they are the same thing is downright

misleading if not criminal. The big dupe is on the magical " minerals " ,

in these salts that your body cannot use anyway, as they are inorganic

minerals. The human body can only utilize organic minerals that can only

come from plants, not sea water, not Himalayan foothill dirt not even

Morton Salt Co. All the sodium (not salt as the body cannot use it and

no where in the human body is salt used in any biochemical pathway) the

human body needs and can utilize easily and efficiently comes from

plants, ie. the raw (not cooked) fruits and vegetables that we eat.

Organic sodium and organic chloride as found in plants bonded to the

enzymes produced by the plants, through the process of photosynthesis,

are the only way the human body can utilize them.

This is another aspect of his article where he aligns sea salt

(completely dead and devoid of life) as something similar to a lemon and

its Vit. C. content (which is a living thing full of life). This is

pretty clever of Mike but the minerals in sea salt do not even come

close in comparison to the vitamins and organic minerals that are found

in a lemon.

Okay, I've said my piece on this now I will get off my soapbox.

Don Quai

wildmouse wrote:

> AMA's campaign against salt fails to recognize health benefits of sea

> salt and trace minerals

> www.NewsTarget.com

> Originally published July 18 2006

>

> You may have heard the recent news that the AMA has publicly come out

> against excessive sodium consumption and salt in particular. Suddenly,

> the alternative health community is engaged in a whirlwind of debate on

> the topic. But wait, if salt is a major risk factor in heart and renal

> diseases, why is anyone upset?

>

> Quite simply, the issue is that not all sources of sodium and salt are

> the same. As far as the body is concerned, there is no connection

> between the chemically-cleansed sodium chloride table salt you buy in

> the supermarket, which is added to virtually every processed food you

> buy, and the mineral rich organic sea salt available in health food

> stores. One can kill you; the other heals you. In fact, it's essential

> for life.

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Alright, Don comes through again while my brain is still kicking into gear!

Have been without salt for 26 days now and I am a different person. Dropped 10 pounds and my face looks very different. I was bemoaning the fact I was needing an eyelift. No more! My eyes are no longer puffy and droopy. Even my husband noticed.

Shari