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