"You are a doctor. Tell me. I want to know! Can the type of salt we eat help or hinder our health?!" AnonymousDMG said ...
The short answer Anon, is NO."Sodium, is sodium is sodium."
Sea salt, table salt. The difference is the "impurities" found in things like Pink Himalayan salt (look up the composition).
WRONG
Denmark Vesey said ...
The Plantation MD is as mistaken as the H1N1 "Pandemic". His kind of backwards unscientific thinking is why people who depend on medical doctors to provide them "health care" ... are so fucking sick.1) Salt and Sodium are two different things.
2) The process of manufacturing commercial table salt, involves the use of aluminum, ferro cyanide and bleach.
3) Aluminum, ferro cyanide and bleach are all toxic materials that your body takes in with refined, commercial salt.
4) And because of that process, almost all the vital minerals that are contained in unprocessed salt are removed.
5) One or two servings of refined salt won`t kill you. But continued almost daily use will avail you to the perils of aluminum toxicity.
6) Ferro cyanide is listed by the EPA as a toxic chemical not fit for human consumption.
DMG, I am sure you are aware of the hazards to human health of chlorine, which is used to bleach the salt.
Unrefined salt is an excellent detoxification aid, as well as a provider of mineral nutrients in a naturally bio-available balance.
There are usually around 80 minerals and essential trace elements in unrefined, organic salt.
Soil grown food is lacking in many of these because the soil has been depleted of trace elements and minerals.
Some of the major minerals included with unrefined salt are: Magnesium (a very essential metabolic agent), calcium, potassium, and sulfate.
Natural salt = 50% sodium.
Refined salt = 99% sodium.
2 comments:
"Natural salt = 50% sodium."
Depends on what you mean by "natural". All I've ever heard you talk about is Himalayan pink...which we all know is anything but pure sodium chloride. But, wait...we went over this Pink pakistani himalayan sea salt stuff a year ago, and found ALL SORTS of impurities--and is the reason it's pink (think copper). So WRONG
"Refined salt = 99% sodium"
Um..NO. Elemental sodium is a metal that's so unstable, that it will BURN when it makes contact with water.
No my mentally challenged friend, Sodium ion when combined with chloride ion forms what we all know as table salt. But you are correct (slightly) on one point Table salt however is not 100% sodium chloride.
If you want pure sodium chloride, you'll need to go to a chemistry distributer.
"DMG, I am sure you are aware of the hazards to human health of chlorine, which is used to bleach the salt."
Um, no again. Chloride ion as I have said, combines with Sodium to form the salt....otherwise how would you get your "50% sodium in your 'natural' salt"?? And how would you otherwise get all that sodium on your food? Could be an explosive meal...but that's unfair, you didn't know that.
You don't know alot of things.
So, what is low-sodium table salt, or sea salts? Some of the Sodium is replaced with other cations, like say Potassium ion (K+, rather than Na+) to combine with Chloride ion. So there will be NaCl (sodium salt), and KCl (potassium salt) for instance.
And you don't need to get Magnesium from a condiment like sea salt. Good sources of the essential mineral are from green leafy vegetables, nuts, and whole grains.
And here's a video.
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