Sad to see my original question about why too much salt, is always warned against by Government "experts", has degraded into the dirt.
I'll continue to take the Government recommendations as we should ALL..."with a grain of salt". ;-)
A little Salmon, Mackerel, mixed with butter, sour cream, cabbage and green beans, sprinkled with Cayenne Pepper is going to be my daily meal to hold me over for another 24 hours. My Umbrella Cockatoo, Fred, enjoys that meal, as well.
Barnaby
--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@...> wrote:
>
> One of the Hawaiian salts I picked up had for the ingredients: sea salt,
> plus Hawaiian clay.
> Basically that is what a lot of the sea salts are: they pick up clay from
> the drying bed.
> Cheaper to buy sea salt and add some clay, IMO.
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 4:43 PM, tamaratornado <tamaratornado@...>wrote:
>
> > Oh gosh, I went to the health food store today and they had 2 exotic salts:
> > Hawaiian Black Lava Salt and Red Alaea Sea Salt. They were really beautiful
> > looking.
> > They were over $7 each, little jars, so I didn't buy them as I am trying to
> > save $$ and not buy stuff I don't need, but I was really curious; I just
> > love to try new tastes.... the Red Alaea Sea Salt, said on the label that it
> > was traditional Hawaiian and had nutritional properties of some sort, I
> > don't remember.
>
> > Once I bought a "black salt" from India (actually beige colored) it tasted
> > awful, like sulfur. YUK.
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@> wrote:
> > >
> > > First, deer and other ruminants don't need nearly as much salt as humans
> > do.
> > > And not all humans need much either. There is a gene that appears to be
> > an
> > > adaptation to shore living, that causes some people to excrete salt and
> > > sometimes too much salt (and also might confer immunity to cholera, which
> > is
> > > spread by water snails). For myself, and my mother, our sodium levels are
> > > always chronically low, even though we tend to crave salt. My kids crave
> > > salt too. If I don't get enough salt in my diet, I start feeling faint
> > and
> > > lack energy.
> > >
> > > But there are some people who get high blood pressure when they eat too
> > much
> > > salt.
> > >
> > > So I think what should happen is: people should listen to their taste
> > buds.
> > > Ideally if you have high-enough sodium levels in your blood, your body
> > will
> > > tell you that you don't need more! Like your body should tell you about
> > how
> > > much food you need to eat.
> > >
> > > Also, I have found that since I've learned better how to cook, I need
> > less
> > > salt as a seasoning. The trick is learning how to use spices ... most of
> > > them are incredibly good for you, having anti-cancer and anti-oxidant
> > > effects, besides making food taste awesome. One thing about Stefansson's
> > > time: the English were really naive about spices! English food of the
> > time
> > > was rather horrid from a culinary perspective.
> > >
> > > I think if a person is living mostly off fish though, you wouldn't need
> > > extra salt? Seafood is pretty high in sodium. English food at the time
> > was
> > > land food, and typically very low in sodium except what was added.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 6:50 AM, tamaratornado <tamaratornado@>wrote:
> > >
> > > > We have debated salt on my paleolithic diet group. There are
> > traditional
> > > > cultures that use salt and trade for salt, and there are wild animals
> > that
> > > > go to great lengths to get salt: elephants and deer, I believe. But
> > there
> > > > are other deer that don't eat salt, and are just as healthy. There are
> > > > traditional cultures that don't add salt to their food. Some natural
> > foods
> > > > have an amount of salt in them, like celery.
> > > >
> > > > The explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who lived with the Eskimos, reports
> > > > that they did not use salt. He explains this is part II here (scroll
> > down):
> > > > http://www.biblelife.org/stefansson1.htm
> > > > That's a fascinating account, btw, I suggest to read the whole thing.
> > > >
> > > > Me, I use a small amount of sea salt in my food at home when I feel
> > like
> > > > it. If you go without salt, or on low salt, your taste buds adjust and
> > you
> > > > taste more flavors and don't need so much salt. I notice that if I go
> > to a
> > > > restaurant, that the food tastes very salty to me and makes me thirsty.
> > > >
> > > > There's a variety of healthy salts: sea salt, celtic sea salt, and
> > > > himilayan pink salt.
> > > > I have a hickory smoked sea salt I love.
> > > >
> > > > It's probably a question of balance, too much or too little of
> > salt....?
> > > >
> --
> Heather Twist
> http://eatingoffthefoodgrid.blogspot.com/
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