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Topic: Salt ,good or bad?
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jason from oz
Knowflake Posts: 62
From: melbourne victoria Australia
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted July 05, 2003 10:21 AM
 
For about 7 years now I have lived on amainly raw fruit diet and have loved it.
Therefore salt is not usually present in my daily diet, but I've read about the natural antaganism between sodium outside the cells and pottasium inside.Apparently most people sway in favour sodium and when sodium enters the cells disease starts.
So people like me or monkeys! dont have a prob with pottasium, but if you dont eat salt how do you replace any lost.How much is lost in most circumstances and how much do you need anyhow? I have noticed that if I sweat alot(due to sauna use for example) I tend to need salt to retain fluid again (Ive lost about 3 kilos in fluid in afew days and put it back just as quick with the help of salt).
So should fruitarians and raw fooders eat salt? I've read about Hunza people having more than 30 cups of tea a day with a huge chunk of rock salt and butter in each!
BUT I ,like most people think of salt as bad, is this true or just programming? Sorry for rambling,( I always confuse myself and everyone else!)
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SunShyne
Moderator Posts: 449
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Registered: May 2003
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posted July 06, 2003 12:20 AM
Hi Jason,I think salt is like everything else. It has its uses, but if you overdo it, it'll harm. Sports people and athletes usually need more salt than most coz of the loss through perspiration.
Wish I could help more, but I'm sure someone here will jump in and add something useful. 
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anafaery
Knowflake Posts: 863
From: west coast, yummy rain forest, canada
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted July 06, 2003 07:42 AM
i think that any processed food is probably more harm than good. i use sea salt, just because sometimes i like the taste. i think its fine really. i dont like the taste of white table salt, ugh. its awful. i think some things about sea salt are good for you... you can get it in the natural health food store, and it is pure.im not much help other than that, sorry  IP: Logged |
Randall
Webmaster Posts: 16464
From: Columbus, GA USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted July 07, 2003 02:33 AM
We need natural sodium, but I think table salt isn't quite the same thing.  ------------------
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Lunargirl
Knowflake Posts: 1513
From: south of utopia
Registered: Mar 2003
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posted July 09, 2003 01:37 AM
Here's a great link with some cool info about salt... some new findings too, in the debate about it, and an article about how too much water intake without proper sodium replenishment can lead to death.
http://www.salt.org.il/frame_phys.html ...although the anti-salt camp can indeed, take it with a... grain of <WHAP!>  Lunargirl IP: Logged |
Nebel
Knowflake Posts: 218
From: Australia
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted July 09, 2003 10:21 PM
Hiya Jase  Well here is what i know... Salt - in any form other than that we eat through fruit and veg is UNNATURAL. Even mineralised salt, sea salt, celtic salt - whatever. When consumed, this unnatural salt 'replaces' the natural body salt in the body. As far as i have been taught, the body cannot use this unnatural salt in the same way as the natural salt found in fruit, veg and sprouted grains (Which I assume is the mainstay of your diet?) I would suggest that, after exercise or a sauna, you drink something other than water with salt in it - such as beetroot juice, or some other vegetable juice with a 'high' salt content. Let me reiterate. Salt in any other form than that found in Mother Natures foods is TOXIC - keep away from it as much as you can! Hope this helps?
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Nebel P.S. Even though you have a raw fruit diet - do you still cleanse?? I assume in your earlier years you had a pretty 'mainstream' diet?? In this case there still may be toxins and debri's in your system that prevent you from properly assimilating minerals such as salt... Give it a thought OXOOX ------------------
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