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03-24-2008, 03:32 AM
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 |  Is eating salt essential to life?
i want to write an article on the health benefits of using sea salt instead of standard table salt. however, i came across the following website during my research. it paused me in my tracks and prompted the creation of this thread. the link is not about mere sodium reduction, but claiming there is no need for salt, period. Just Kick the Salt Habit - Negative effects of Sea Salt, Iodized Salt. |
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03-25-2008, 07:59 AM
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| TESTOSTERONE NATION - Sodium, Your Secret Weapon Has an interesting article about that from a bodybuilding, weightlifting perspective. If I look at it from my personal view, I prefer not to limit my salt intake in anyway, there is a reason it tastes so good, it's because the body needs and wants it, if you had enough salt it just doesn't taste so good anymore. So I prefer to listen to my taste buds and body rather than someone saying I should, or shouldn't eat it. Plus we've been eating it for thousands of years, and we're all alive so it can't be that bad. Though in excess it could be very harmful I suppose, just like drinking 2 gallons of water in an hour would be harmful. |
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03-25-2008, 12:57 PM
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I use salt as a spice, not a condiment. However, if you aren't eating processed foods, then I think being more liberal with the salt is fine. If youre eating microwave mac and cheese and then putting salt on it, yeah, thats a problem.
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03-26-2008, 10:58 AM
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 You can't judge the dietary value of chemical compounds by the elements that compose them. By that logic basically everything we eat is toxic. Compounds have their own individual chemical properties. Last edited by Keith; 03-26-2008 at 11:01 AM. | ||
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