Salt
-Salt-
What is the truth?
Salt is seen more and more as the cause of
the high blood pressure with result the many deaths by a brain stroke, heart attack or
heart disease.
But what kind of salt is responsible for
that?
The natural sea-salt crystals?
Or...?
Starting from the base
- The embryo, the beginning of life, grows
in a fluid of the same composition as the sea.-
- Blood contains almost all the elements of the seawater.
- Also the brain is constantly bathing in a salty cerebrospinal fluid.-
Above phrases are scientific conclusions
and are showing the relation of the sea, with all its elements, with life.
- The body contains a rather big amount of
salt, approximately 200 grams, 0.28% of its weight, for its physical needs.-
Also this is a scientific conclusion, with
the confirmation that this salt together with its minerals and trace-elements is found all
over the body, the bones, the brains, the organs, the cells, blood, not only for the right
functioning but also as a help for almost all the physical processes. It assists for the
food intake, the digestion and the final assimilation, it takes care of the humidity
balance in the cells which is extremely important for the whole body and specially the
brain. It is indispensable for the working of the nerve system, the transport of the
oxygen to and from the lungs and in fact for so many more life functions.
Is that correct?
You can ask your doctor or otherwise read
it in the medical literature.
If the elements of salt are considered as the base for the well functioning of the body,
then salt is as the oil of the motor of our car. Without oil the motor does not live very
long.
Also this is confirmed by the scientists of medicine; without salt we will die. Even more
correct; without water and salt life is not possible!
Why salt is seen as the villain?
This in fact is a crucial question. It is
at least confusing to know that salt is absolutely necessary for the functioning of the
body and on the other hand to consider it as the cause of high blood pressure with result
the so many deaths from heart and brain strokes.
It cannot be only because of the high consumption of salt, as too much salt in a meal you
notice immediately and it is impossible to consume. Or could it be because of the hidden
salt in all our daily shopping's, such as bread, cheese, meat, snacks and so many more
products?
Do we ever ask ourselves what kind of salt
the scientists are talking about in this judgment? What kind of salt is used during the so
many researches to find the cause of these terrible sicknesses?
Or is it considered not to be relevant, as salt is salt and it is all the same?
Salt and salt, is it all the same?
In order to understand this, we have first
to investigate how salt is created and how it comes to the consumption salt. Only then
will we be able to judge what kind of salt could be the cause of all the problems.
Salt is found in the earth, hundreds of
millions years old, but is also freshly crystallized every year in the solar sea salt
works. This kind of salt, old or fresh is a direct composition of the sea and contains
therefore all the elements which exist in the sea. This salt consists mainly of sodium and
chloride, app. 98% and app. 2% of minerals and trace-elements (app. 80 pieces). This salt
is called natural salt.
The industry takes this natural salt and
dissolves it in water in order to clean it from all eventual dirt, non solvable elements
and from its minerals through chemical refining process. This solution is recrystallized
and consists of 99.9% sodium and chloride and is called industrial salt.
Worldwide, the total yearly production of
salt, natural and industrial, is app. 200 millions tons, of which one third is natural sea
salt, produced by solar sea salt works. Most of this salt, app. 60-80% goes into the
chemical or related industries as first material for the processing of more than 10.000
products, among which the salt for the consumers' market.
It is known that only 10% of the worldwide
production is used for human consumption, either for direct use as table salt, or as an
additive for the food industry. It is clear that the biggest part of this salt is
industrial salt, as natural salt can only be found more or less as a specialty.
This means that industrial salt has to be
examined more carefully for the sake of health. Namely this kind of salt is provided with
various additives for the colour, against clotting and inorganic iodine. Also for the
processing of industrial food, bread, cheese, meat, etc. salt is provided with various
chemical additives according to the demand of each product, colour, taste, preservation
etc.
It is herewith clear that the salt produced
by the industry, in whatever form, has nothing to do with pure natural salt, a creation of
the seawater with the energy of the sun. There is no industry in the world which can
produce natural salt with its more then 80 elements as the sea. Therefore industrial salt
cannot be considered as natural or act as such.
Does it matter for the body, natural salt
or industrial salt?
This is in fact the main question of the
whole subject. In case the composition of salt is irrelevant to the health problems, the
kind of salt is not important and only the quantity will remain for research for the cause
of high blood pressure.
However the scientists are here divided.
Here starts the confusion.
All the supporters of the natural salt,
either Himalayan salt, or Celtic sea-salt from Bretagne, or Solar sea-salt from the
Mediterranean, say that only natural salt can be absorbed in the form of ions by our
organism and this salt is good for the total body as described before. It is even said
that this kind of salt is helping in the regulation of the heart beat and the blood
pressure. This and much more you can see by yourselves in the various sites, among others:
www.curezone.com/foods/saltcure.asp
(salt that heals and salt that kills.)
www.himalyancrystalsalt.com/wellness/answers.html
(salt facts, from the compelling book, Water & Salt- Essence of life, by Dr. Barbara
Hendel, MD and Peter Ferreira)
www.watercure.com (van Dr. F. Batmanghelidj, the
health specialist in the field of water and salt.)
The industry says that by adding
Potassium-Iodide the salt becomes good for the thyroid gland problems and the other
additives for bleaching, anti caking and the stabilizing of the iodine are allowed and
accepted by the departments of food control and the medical establishments. Besides the
industry says: our salt is better than the natural sea salt as it is refined from all
heavy metals of the polluted sea of today. On top, in relation to health problems, they
have developed a new type of salt with less sodium and more potassium, for those who are
on reduced salt diet.
Whom do we have to believe now?
This is the biggest problem and for sure if
you have a problem!
On one side we have a natural product and
on the other side an industrial product made by man. We can see it symbolically as the
battle between nature and the human ingenuity.
We could ask ourselves: is man so ingenious
that he can equalize himself with nature?
Is human ingenuity so clever that it can regulate the so complicated life functions?
Or is man so arrogant that he thinks he knows better than nature?
Or maybe the commercial values are influencing all of this?
Each one has to make his own conclusions
according to his believes, either in the power of nature or in the power of the industry
with the human ingenuity. But one important thing we have to ask ourselves in the research
about the truth in salt: why only iodine is added for health purposes to the industrial
salt and not all the (app. 80) minerals and trace-elements, which are found in the natural
salt and which are proved to be so necessary for our well functioning?
Maybe it is really too difficult for man to
copy the natural products and that's the cause of all the problems?
Paul de Graaf.
Author of the book "Zeezout - Een geschenk van Poseidon"
Published and sale by: Uitgeverij Elikser B.V. te Leeuwarden.
Author and administrator of www.solar-seasalt.com
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