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Salt Truths from Sel Marin
(This article is about unrefined salt, not the salt from the supermarket)
Harvested from the sea or wrested from the earth, salt would appear to be one of
the humblest commodities. Yet the sodium it contains is a
life-sustaining element.
Sodium chloride is essential in the nutrition and physiological processes of all
animals including man. From long before the first written word, there are
repeated references in records and stories to the importance of salt as an
essential in the daily diet.
Salt has not only ensured the survival of mankind, but coloured the species
food, religions, politics and superstitions. In ancient times, because of its
power to preserve and purify, salt was spilled upon legal documents to symbolize
enduring agreement and freedom from deceit. Mans effort to obtain salt can be
traced back through history for salt has always been essential to human life.
Salt is more precious to men than gold.
Ancient manuscripts tell us that more than 5000 years ago the Chinese obtained
salt by boiling and evaporating the ash from seaweed. Later, people along the
Mediterranean and Red Seas discovered that when seawater was evaporated by the
sun, salt was left behind. This was the start of salt manufacturing and the same
method of solar evaporation is used today in the production of many salts around
the world.
Roman legionnaires who guarded the Via Solaria, one of the most famous military
roads in history, received part of their pay in salt, their 'salarium.'
From this came the modern word 'salary.'
To this day a good man is 'worth his salt' and we take others' dramatic
pronouncements 'with a pinch of salt.'
Many of salt's applications, including salting of fish and meat to preserve it,
have remained almost unchanged down through the millennia. Its place in our
superstitions and sayings remains entrenched. Enshrined in the World's many
cultures and a vital part of global economies, salt is as essential to life as
the air we breathe and the water we drink.
Surely there can be no product purer, more natural or environmentally friendly
than salt - pure salt water provided and evaporated by Nature, harvested to
perfection by Man.
Making salt in open pans is not new. In Mark Kurlansky's recent book, Salt A
World History, he suggests that in 450 B.C. a Chinese called Yi Duan 'is
believed to have made salt by boiling brine in iron pans, an innovation which
would become one of the leading techniques for salt making for the next 2,000
years.' Rapid boiling is still used today but the open pans have been replaced
by closed vessels, outputs have increased and the salt these plants produce has
a uniform cubic crystal shape.
At Selmarin the sea waters are evaporated using the natural
processes of sun and wind.
* Our bodies contain almost 450gms of salt and each day we need to replenish the
salt used by our bodies to maintain our normal health and vigour. Salt plays a
big part in helping the body to digest foods and turn them into living tissues,
as well as helping to transmit nerve impulses that contract the muscles. In
order for the cells of the body to function normally, a salt/water balance must
be maintained.
There is a lot of talk and even so-called scientific research concerning the
harmful effects of eating salt. Please understand that salt is not the problem
- metabolic and
gastrointestinal acids are the problem. Salt is essential in making sodium
bicarbonate to neutralize the constant production of acid from our constant need
for energy.
The utilization of energy by the body creates an equal amount of acid that must
be buffered with salt. It is acid that causes high blood NOT salt.
A recent study suggests that salt is dangerous and will cost lives. This is a
big fat lie! Could you image what would happen to our sea life in the oceans if
we put them on a salt free diet? This scientific thinking is dangerous and will
not save lives but take lives.
My recommendation when you are eating and living a alkaline lifestyle and diet
is that you can eat as much salt as your little heart desires!
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