High Blood Pressure and Salt – Fact or Fiction?
There can be no denying that too much salt can cause harm to your system and act as an agent of High Blood Pressure but that is only part of the story. The most important bit has been left out.
It’s not actually the salt per se that is the problem. Your body needs real salt, real natural salt either from the earth or from the sea, and is well-equipped to handle it. It has become the stuff of history and in fact in days gone by, Salt as a commodity was extremely highly regarded and very valuable. In ancient Greece, slaves were traded for salt – hence the expression “not worth his salt.” Roman soldiers were sometimes paid in salt (salis) and their salarium is the origin of our word “salary”. “Soldier” actually comes from the Latin (sal dare), which means, “to give salt”.
but I digress.
Commercial salt producers remove all the good minerals (for sale to industry) and add several harmful chemicals (to bleach the salt white and keep it from caking) and therein lies one of the major problem issues.
The impurities that come along with our own commercially and domestically available Salt. Also the other fact that the major contributor to Salt (aka Sodium Chloride) is….Sodium and the real problem is that our body can handle Sodium but our diet nowadays is so deficient in the useful minerals that we need to be able to cope with Sodium, namely Potassium that too much Sodium becomes an issue thereby fuelling the “Salt is bad for us” debate.
So is High Blood Pressure and Salt the main debate? Shouldn’t be as it is only part of the story.
