Posted by Larry Hoover on June 6, 2006, at 5:53:01
In reply to You may be transmutating to cool down » Dinah, posted by 10derHeart on June 5, 2006, at 23:37:07
> Check this out... (it's short)
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> http://www.arltma.com/CravingSaltNews.htm
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> For one thing, apparently the table salt we use to satisy these cravings (and all its evil cousins in our processed food) is "stripped" of natural goodness (other minerals, etc.), so sea salt and such would be much better.It's not stripped of goodness, it is selectively extracted, to provide e.g. magnesium to supply the aircraft industry with high-strength light-weight metals. They run an electric current through a brine solution, and pure metals deposit on one electrode.... which metal depending on the electrical potential being applied. Table salt is the last step along the way, almost, to total removal of metals from the brine, but they do also go on to isolate a substantial amount of sodium and potassium, both used in the creation of caustic soda and potash, respectively. Huge industries are built around the salt deposits underlying the Detroit/Windsor area of the Great Lakes. That used to be ocean, until it got landlocked, and all the water dried up. The salt is over a mile thick, down under there. Table salt once was sea salt, if you follow. It may contain dinosaur urine, if you follow further. ;-)
Sea salt is not processed, as above, but I'd be very careful where I bought my sea salt. I see "sea salt" products in the bulk stores that look surprisingly like table salt, but cost four times as much. Hmmmm. Nobody gonna pull a switcheroo, I hope. Hmmmm.
> I knew that, about processed foods, of course (too MUCH of the stuff), but never though about the Morton's girl being sanitized (i.e., made less healthy) for our convenience.
It's not really that much less healthy. It's merely different. You really wouldn't get much trace mineral out of sea salt, anyway. The biggest source is veggies.
I remember reading the label of a friend's hyper-expensive super-duper mineral supplement. It was composed of dolomitic limestone, and sea salt. All those friggin "trace minerals". Somebody just copied a list of what's been found in the ocean. I could tell, just by reading the label. I'm in the wrong business.
> But reading down near the end....my take, Dinah, is that either your body does the sodium/potassium transmutation thing, either because you live in a hot climate OR because you're an athlete.
The Kervan effect, that supposed transmutation thing, is merely bad science. He just didn't control his independent variables properly. People can appear to excrete excess minerals by drawing on their body stores. Certain of those minerals are impossible to accurately assess, even with modern scientific knowledge. He was just a bad scientist, who self-published.
I could debunk anything on this page: http://www.cheniere.org/books/aids/ch5.htm
If you wanna hear it.
It discusses "transmutation"..... but it really ought to be an examination of poor scientific method. I believe they recorded their observations correctly, but that's all they did correctly. It's just that the observations were meaningless, due to poor experimental design. They have precise measurements of meaningless values.
> Personally, I'd start telling everyone you know it's the latter :-)
I agree. Definitely the latter.
The best thirst-quenching solutions to take when you're perspiring heavily are the same ones used for pediatric oral rehydration. Available at any drug store. Or Gatorade. It was developed by the medical staff of the Florida Gators football team, to keep those behemoths on their feet in the heat in the late summer/early fall period. 300 lbs of sweating human can only take so much, ya know?
Apart from that, salt away. Salt restriction should only come on doctor's explicit orders, IMHO. Most normal people disrupt their own heart rhythm via salt restriction. People are more likely to die of heart attack on a salt restricted diet, even those who've already had a heart attack. Only those people with kidney problems related to diuresis should restrict salt, IMHO. They've generalized from a special population to the general population, and *that* is not based on good science.
My opinion may be worth what you paid for it.
Lar
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