Can Salt Kill You

Health & FitnessNutrition & Supplement

  • Author Chuck Bluestein
  • Published February 22, 2008
  • Word count 599

Salt is not a food. It is a rock. If you put 4 ounces of salt in water and drink it, you will die due to all that sodium. There are websites that say that you need salt. They are selling salt. Then they say that regular salt is bad but their salt is good for you. But it still has the sodium in it that will kill you. No fossils of man that over 10,000 years have salt in them. So they figured that that is when people began eating salt. They have skeletons of people that are millions of years old.

The refrigerator is only a recent invention. Fruits and vegetables can be kept un-refrigerated but animal products need to be kept cold. Salt kills bacteria so that would help keep animal products to stay good a little longer. It could be used to keep foods from going bad, until they could ferment. It kills life. You can rub into cuts to torture people.

When people consume salt, the body is constantly trying to get rid of it but can only get rid of so much per day with you consuming more everyday. So it stores the excess under the skin. Salt needs to absorb lots of water to prevent it from being toxic. So salt causes a lot of water weight.

LATEST NEWS: In an effort to reduce high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease, the American Medical Association is urging "the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to revoke the 'generally recognized as safe' (GRAS) status of salt and to develop regulatory measures to limit sodium in processed and restaurant foods." Vitamins and minerals have a minimum RDA (recommended daily allowance). All of them have this except sodium. Instead it has a maximum RDA.

If you look in the foods made by nature they have around 15 milligrams of sodium. But when you look at man-made foods, you have a large pizza with 3,000+ mg of sodium or a can of chicken noodle soup with 2,000+ mg of sodium. An avocado has 21 mg of sodium but 1,400 mg of potassium making it a very healthy food for you.

The body determines how much water you need by the concentration of sodium in it. This is why you can be on a raft in the ocean surrounded by water and die of dehydration. You will only get more dehydrated drinking the ocean water or your salty urine. This is why I call salt anti-water. It makes it so water will not work.

There is a book called The Rice Diet Solution (©2006) by Kitty Gurkin Rosati R.D. and Robert Rosati M.D. says that in addition to salt causing water retention, it also stimulates the appetite causing people to eat more. During the first 5 days of a fast the body dumps huge amounts (up to 80,000 mg per day) of salt so it gets rid of all the excess salt. So this is why someone can lose up to 15 pounds of weight during the first 5 days of a fast. They lose 15 pounds of water.

If the body continued to lose sodium after this excess is removed then the person would die after a few more days of fasting due to lack of sodium instead of being able to fast a month. But the body no longer needs to get rid of it so the sweat and urine are no longer salty. But due to ignorance, some people think they need to replace this salt since the body is getting rid of it. Sweating helps you lose retained water since you are sweating out excess salt.

Chuck Bluestein is a nutritionist, ethnobotanical herbalist and a fasting expert. His website has information on weight loss, healthy diet, fasting, neck and back pain, natural cures, pure water, Amazon rainforest herbs and how to be happier. http://www.camucamufruit.com

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beltfed
beltfed · 16 years ago
I hope people don't take Chuck too seriously...for a nutritionist he seems to know remarkably little about how the body works. There is some substance to his argument and it is very true that people generally eat far too much salt. However to condemn salt as being bad for you is crap. As an experienced Paramedic, I can assure the reader that without enough salt, the body will suffer cramps, and even severe cardiac dysrythmias, amongst other things...it's called Hyponatremia. Muscles and in particular cardiac muscle rely on Sodium and Potassium to operate, i.e. contract and relax. The body constantly adjusts and compensates for all elements and fluids within itsself, and does not just get rid of salt when you fast! All this information and more is freely available to anyone who takes the time to look for it - don't just take the word of some duboius 'fasting expert'or you could suffer serious health consequences.

Fasting
Fasting · 16 years ago
This is a very good article about salt and many people need to know this information.

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