For decades we’ve been experiencing the hype and hoopla about the “dangers” of sodium.
The so-called nutritional specialists and the medical world keep trying to convince us that the salt is a common denominator of high blood pressure and other cardiovascular diseases.
However, studies have failed to prove any health benefits of a low sodium diet. In fact, multiple researches revealed that the famous DASH diet (low-salt) was linked to an increased heart disease risk.
Salt is absolutely essential to maintain good health and wellbeing IF you use the right kind.
Due to this ongoing propaganda against salt, we tend to forget how crucial it is to our health and the fact that we cannot survive without it.
Unprocessed salt is necessary for many essential biological processes:
• Transferring nutrients in and out of cells.
• Regulating and maintaining blood pressure.
• Boosting the glial cells in the brain that are responsible for long-term planning and creative thinking.
• Salt is an important component of blood plasma, extracellular fluid, lymphatic fluid and amniotic fluid.
• Helps brain communicate with the muscles to create the movement.
It does however matter what kind of salt you use.
Regular, table salt is refined and contains as much as 89 percent of sodium.
Compare that to a natural, unrefined salt containing less than 84 percent of sodium chloride. The other 16 percent of natural salt consists of essential minerals like phosphorus, vanadium and silica.
In processed salt the remaining percentage consists of manmade chemicals like moisture absorbents and added iodine.
Processed salt is then dried using an excessive heat above 1200 degrees Fahrenheit, eventually altering and changing the natural chemical structure of it.
Same as with most of the foods, salt is healthiest when it is not processed.
One of the best natural salts available in the market today is pink Himalayan salt.
It is absolutely natural, pure salt that spent thousands of years maturing under the tectonic plate of the Himalayan Mountains.
Pink Himalayan salt is minimally processed, hand-washed and hand-mined containing as much as 84 trace minerals from ancient seas.
These minerals are crucial to many biological processes including regulation of glucose levels and blood pressure, healthy circulation and good bone health.
Luckily, you can find this wonder salt in most health food stores and supermarkets all over the world. Even though it’s pricier than regular refined table salt, it’s definitely worth the price.
Especially when it is also addictively delicious!
Blue Heron offer cheap and interesting health information. They actually tell you stuff as opposed to offering in a very long winded way to tell you stuff if you buy their book.
Himalayan Salt IS addictive! I have been diagnosed with Hypertension and High Cholesterol but am still eating Himalayan Salt, which has no effect on my blood pressure, although I encourage everything in moderation. I keep bees as well and now in winter hey have to be fed as there was not enough to forage on in late summer. The feeding formula includes 2/1 sugar syrup with camomile tea and a generous pinch of Himalayan salt. Commercial salt has chemical additives to stop it from clumping, and can kill bees, whreas the Himalayan salt has trace elements and minerals that the bees require to be healthy and get them through the winter months. I would say they are the best judges of what is healthy to ingest.
I have been enjoying your books and they are very interesting, that i have started practising some of the advice.
I recently bought Pink Himalayan salt quite cheaply from Costco. Good to know it isn't only pretty!
Salt is good ?
This is essential to maintaining good health.
Thank you veronica your tips are great!
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Thank you Blue Heron. I have been receiving your informative Newsletter for some years now and I have in the past purchased some of your e-books.
I use Himalayan salt for quite some time now.It does have a different taste than a regular table salt. It
is actually less saltier and tastes much softer that a regular salt.
My doc wants me to go on a sodium free diet( because of my high blood pressure) but I disagree with
him because I know that salt is very essential to our health. Especially when you use a healthy type of
salt like this one..
Thanks for sharing this useful information!
I have been using sea salt in all my recipes for over 30 years. I also take a high quality vitamin to sustain my health. Not until 10 years ago when I was working too many hours and taking sudafed for my allergies did my health take a nasty plunge.
If you stay away from medications and stick to high quality vitamins you will live a healthier life. The AMA keeps us going to doctors by telling us lies about what we should stay away from, like salt. The FDA has allowed the food companies to put additives like GMO's, aspartane, MSG, floride, artificial sweetners and many other toxins into our food products. This is why, we as a nation have so many health problems. Thank goodness Blue Heron is making us aware of the problems in our food supply.
Remembr ur pairs has no spair parts so..do protect by taking high quality food…!
Re: "In fact, multiple researches revealed that the famous DASH diet (low-salt) was linked to an increased heart disease risk." I was able to find NO EVIDENCE of this at all. In fact, all of the studies I know of show just the opposite: the DASH diet REDUCES the risks of hypertension and heart disease. Could you please give research citations or STOP giving people bad information.
Hey I’m confused. Just a few months ago this same website was recommending the DASH diet?!
I used Himalayan salt until a found high Arsenic in my hair analysis and the following blood check, privately done as our NHS don't notice these things. I suspect the salt source as it was cheap enough. I've switched to some existing sea salt I had instead, for now. This is white so will have been processed to some degree but still better than table salt. Moral: Buy your salt from a good source and get some sort of quality check done on supplier/s.
I think you mean CAN reverse? I have the book, btw!
I will look for this natural salt as from today . I always enjoy your health education
Every person is an individual and one man' poison is healing for another. There are a few of us who cannot digest mined salt. Period. The inability to digest food is the beginning of disease. Please see http://www.doctorananda.com and http://www.songofhealth.com.
Living in Thailand and when driving in the direction of the salt winning spots, we always buy a big bag of see salt along the road right in front of those fields. It’s almost white. Is this processed than???
When you see them scrape the salt together, it’s a bit more grey-ish.
btw, your site name we shout many times in our garden. the heron’s here eat at our fish ponds for breakfast-lunch and dinner, so we yell @#$%%^ heron’s
The shop owner, where we buy the fish always put out the red carpet when we arrive. yuck!!!
LOUISE
Gerry,looking for a high quality vitamin myself! Would you mind sharing name of yours w/me? Would surely appreciate !