Personally, I think that it's a mineral deficiency that makes some of us, including our fellow creatures, to crave salt. Natural salt, like sea salt and, my fav. Himalayan, is a make up of minerals. I think, like anything, salt is fine in moderation...as long as it's not table salt...Namaste! Pamela
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....?
--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "barnabywalker" <barnabywalker@...> wrote:
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> Now, I have my own question about Salt?
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> Made mistake of seeing a short Dr. Oz segment about Salt and blood pressure. Since I've found best policy is to Dis-Believe EVERYTHING said by Government...I'm curious if Salt is truly the "poison" they claim it is. I've never been one to put more than a sprinkle on meat, so suspect it's like so many Government-created "Crisises", No Big Whoop.
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