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