By: Chuck Bluestein
Salt is not a food. It is a rock. If you put 4 ounces of salt in water and drink it, you will die due to all that sodium. There are websites that say that you need salt. They are selling salt. Then they say that regular salt is bad but their salt is good for you. But it still has the sodium in it that will kill you. No fossils of man that over 10,000 years have salt in them. So they figured that that is when people began eating salt. They have skeletons of people that are millions of years old.
The refrigerator is only a recent invention. Fruits and vegetables can be kept un-refrigerated but animal products need to be kept cold. Salt kills bacteria so that would help keep animal products to stay good a little longer. Salt can be used to keep foods from becoming bad, until they could ferment. It kills life. You can rub into cuts to torture people.
When people consume salt, the body is constantly trying to get rid of it but can only get rid of so much per day with you consuming more everyday. So it stores the excess under the skin. Salt needs to absorb lots of water to prevent it from being toxic. So salt causes a lot of water weight.
LATEST NEWS: In an effort to reduce high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease, the American Medical Association is urging "the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to revoke the 'generally recognized as safe' (GRAS) status of salt and to develop regulatory measures to limit sodium in processed and restaurant foods." Vitamins and minerals have a minimum RDA (recommended daily allowance). All of them have this except sodium. Instead it has a maximum RDA.
If you look in the foods made by nature they have around 15 milligrams of sodium. When it comes to man-made foods, a large pizza has 3,000+ mg of sodium and a can of chicken noodle soup has 2,000+ mg of sodium. An avocado has 21 mg of sodium but 1,400 mg of potassium making it a very healthy food for you.
The body determines how much water you need by the concentration of sodium in it. That is the reason that if you are on a raft in the ocean with water all around you, you can still die of dehydration. You will only get more dehydrated drinking the ocean water or your salty urine. This is the reason that I call it anti-water. It makes it so water will not work.
There is a book called The Rice Diet Solution (©2006) by Kitty Gurkin Rosati R.D. and Robert Rosati M.D. says that in addition to salt causing water retention, it also stimulates the appetite causing people to eat more. During the first 5 days of a fast the body dumps huge amounts (up to 80,000 mg per day) of salt so it gets rid of all the excess salt. So this is why someone can lose up to 15 pounds of weight during the first 5 days of a fast. They lose 15 pounds of water.
If the body continued to lose sodium after this excess is removed then the person would die after a few more days of fasting due to lack of sodium instead of being able to fast a month. But the body no longer needs to get rid of it so the sweat and urine are no longer salty. But due to ignorance, some people think they need to replace this salt since the body is getting rid of it. Sweating helps you lose retained water since you are sweating out excess salt.
Chuck Bluestein is an ethnobotanical herbalist, fasting expert and a nutritionist. His website has information on losing weight, healthy diet, fasting, neck and back pain, natural cures, pure drinking water, Amazon rainforest herbs and how to be happier. http://www.camucamufruit.com
