WHITE SALT!!!

Sodium chloride commonly known as table salt is the next among killer foods. Any white refined salt that you can pour, whether from an earth source or sea source, is almost 100 percent sodium chloride. Although the body does indeed require some sodium for survival, we get more than enough in its natural form though plant based foods such as celery and other vegetables.

   Salt has been traditionally used as an antiseptic and food preservatives. That is because salt is toxic to living things, and it effectively kills bacteria and anything else exposed to it in higher concentrations. But for the same reasons, when we exceed our body's requirement for salt, we present a toxic substances that wreaks havoc in our system and in our cells.

  Salt is a major contributor to arterial sclerosis - hardening of the arteries, which is a precursor to serious heart problems. Salt also raises the blood pressure . For a person with normal blood pressure, the recommended maximum daily salt limit is 240mg.

  Do you know that one teaspoons of salt contains approximately 230mg?. Commercial cereals contain about 700 - 1,100 sodium(mg) per serving, hot dog about 1,100, salad dressing about 700 - 1,300, canned soup about 350 - 450, processed cheese contain about 1,189 of sodium.

   A low sodium diet will reduce the risk of hypertension and its complications, kidney stones, stomach cancer, complications of congestive heart failure, cirrhosis of the liver, and osteoporosis.

   Societies that ingest little or no salt have no hypertension, and when diets very low in salt such as a diet of fruits and vegetables are given to hypertensive patients, blood pressure usually falls towards normal.

     So how should you season your foods? first, when you boil or heat food, you take most of the flavoring out, so most people have to put something back in to enhance the taste. Like many acquired tastes, folks simply develop an addiction to sodium, which perpetuates itself so food seems tasteless unless its loaded up with salty flavours. 

  But once you start to take food in their natural form, your taste buds will return to their natural state and true flavours of food will become wonderful again. Raw foods don't need salty seasonings to make them delicious, they have their own natural flavours. When you need to use salt, used unrefined sea salt.