More Dangers of Salt

If you missed my last article on salt, you can click here.

Salt is not a food. There is no reason to include salt in a healthy diet!

Salt in the body holds about 96 times its weight in water. The average person is walking around with excess fluid in their bodies due to salt accumulation. This disrupts the fluid balance, increases blood pressure and causes dehydration of blood capillaries.

John T. Richter in "Nature The Healer", has quite a lot to say about salt:

"Table salt, and all other salts except those found in their organic stages in fruits and vegetables, are inorganic substances which cannot be assimilated by the body and must be discarded by the bloodstream at the earliest opportunity.

Usually the salt is deposited in the joints, particularly the knees, elbows, ankles, wrists, and the like, resulting later in arthritis and rheumatism."

Furthermore, he asks, "What is the first symptom of salt deposits in the joints? Do they crack when you do a knee bend? If so, your joints are commencing to become dry due to the salt deposits having absorbed all the synovial fluid which acts as a lubricant in those regions. Salt has a tremendous attraction for water and all other liquids.

No wonder doctors prescribe innumerable glasses of water daily so that their patients may to some extent satisfy the incessant craving for liquid caused by the salt they are eating. Remember that salt may dissolve in water and in the saliva of the mouth, but it will recrystallize within a very short time and under no circumstances will it be absorbed into the bodily structure.

It will collect wherever there is room for it to be deposited, but it will no more be absorbed than sand is absorbed by the gears into which you may have thrown it. Salt, in its effect, is like that of sand in gears; it irritates and slowly but surely destroys."

That was a very long quote, but I thought it worth quoting in full.

I will do one more article on salt, and then I am looking forward to talking about some of the wonderful benefits and blessings of eating healthfully!

Until then, try to eliminate or at least severely reduce the amount of salt that you ingest. After a short while you really won't miss it, and neither will you miss its deadly effects.

Phyllis Towse