Salt Concern

[dreamrawalwz]

I'm not sure if this belongs in this area or the raw food area. Either way, I have a concern.

I know that if someone goes from no salt in their diet to a lot their blood pressure rises, gain water weight, and for me I gain cravings, sneeze, and get headaches sometimes.

I was wondering if there are any things I should be careful of by removing MASSIVE quantities of sea salt from my diet overnight? I know I'll get strong cravings and lose 10-15 pounds almost instantly, but could it harm me chemically in the body to do this rapidly? For me it's all or nothing, but....I was just curious if I should be careful with maybe a rapid decrease in blood pressure or something?

[luckitri]

Dream, I think that is referencing table salt. Celtic sea salt has minerals that you need for bones, heart, everything. I have been exploring this website called www.watercure2.com and they point out how if you go in hospital the first thing that happens is you get hooked up to a saline IV - despite years of telling us to avoid salt.

www.watercure2.com has a different perspective that I hope you look into. The are also hooked up to Dr Loraine Day, Curezone, and their Raw Food Diet section has exerpts from a Victoria Boutenko book and Gabriel Cousens.

I have started it because I am hoping that the extra minerals in seasalt in my drinking water will help my myriad of health problems. Plus when you want to lay down and rest the salt water will wake you up so you can keep going. . . .better than caffeine.

They say adding the seasalt will cause weight loss. Also if you e-mail them they are very helpful like they are on a mission.

The site is in no-nonsense common English and is easy to understand for the most part.

[dreamrawalwz]

Dream, I think that is referencing table salt. Celtic sea salt has minerals that you need for bones, heart, everything. I have been exploring this website called www.watercure2.com and they point out how if you go in hospital the first thing that happens is you get hooked up to a saline IV - despite years of telling us to avoid salt.

www.watercure2.com has a different perspective that I hope you look into. The are also hooked up to Dr Loraine Day, Curezone, and their Raw Food Diet section has exerpts from a Victoria Boutenko book and Gabriel Cousens.

I have started it because I am hoping that the extra minerals in seasalt in my drinking water will help my myriad of health problems. Plus when you want to lay down and rest the salt water will wake you up so you can keep going. . . .better than caffeine.

They say adding the seasalt will cause weight loss. Also if you e-mail them they are very helpful like they are on a mission.

The site is in no-nonsense common English and is easy to understand for the most part.

All I have is sea salt. I'm just VERY sensitive to it and it does not cause weight loss for me, but extreme bloating/swollen weight gain.

[Raw Angel Mom]

I saw while watching another dvd to do recipe that the woman dehydrate celery and powder it. She mainly use it in her recipe. Maybe you can try to incorporate this more in your recipe instead of sea salt.

[solarliving]

I bought some Himalayan salt over a year ago and there still a lot left. Sometimes I just take a dab of it straight if I've drunk a lot of water and I feel like it is helpful. I've had low blood pressure most of my life, so maybe that is why.

I just watched a David Wolfe interview about salt and he was saying he thought the celtic was good. He was also talking about something called Bromine that is in ocean water. Apparently we cannot eliminate Bromine and we would become toxic from too much. His "Lab," studied all salts and found that table salt contained bromine where as the other ones (Celtic, himalayan, etc..) didn't.

[RowanC]

There are natural salts in all raw foods.
You don't need to add salt, although I do because I have low blood pressure and love the way it tastes.

[CaliRaw]

I don't have an answer to your question, but have one for you. Are you drinking enough water? Over the past 3 weeks I've been making recipes with Nama Shoyu and gained several bloated pounds. I realized that I was not drinking enough water, especially since I'd been dehydrating and eating the onion bread and other recipes. Once I increased my water intake, I dropped the extra pounds very quickly. Although I'm eating a lot of raw, undehydrated fruits and veggies, I find that I still need to drink more water than I'd been drinking in order to dilute the sodium in my body. I'm striving for 64 oz a day, but have been drinking a little more than that. I also use less Nama Shoyu than the recipe calls for because the taste is too salty for me. Anyway, just a thought I'd throw out there.

[Noone]

some people are questioning the sodium/kalium balance in all salts.

google: living-foods.com + articles + salt + sodium


LL

[dreamrawalwz]

I don't have an answer to your question, but have one for you. Are you drinking enough water? Over the past 3 weeks I've been making recipes with Nama Shoyu and gained several bloated pounds. I realized that I was not drinking enough water, especially since I'd been dehydrating and eating the onion bread and other recipes. Once I increased my water intake, I dropped the extra pounds very quickly. Although I'm eating a lot of raw, undehydrated fruits and veggies, I find that I still need to drink more water than I'd been drinking in order to dilute the sodium in my body. I'm striving for 64 oz a day, but have been drinking a little more than that. I also use less Nama Shoyu than the recipe calls for because the taste is too salty for me. Anyway, just a thought I'd throw out there.

I've been drinking about a gallon of water a day.

[mongodelight]

There are natural salts in all raw foods.
You don't need to add salt, although I do because I have low blood pressure and love the way it tastes.

yes but much people are deficent in minerals espially trace minerals. And not everybody is eating at one pailful of green leafy veggies a day - like i do every day. Also most people got a too small variety of green (leafy) veggies to reverse the defiencies.

But salt is addictive. Because you cant enjoy salads without salt if u re eating every veggie with salt. You have to control the amount and stay some time off.
Otherwise it destroys the taste buds and u need to eat to much salt - that is damaging.

[annavon]

I would think that if you were going to eliminate "massive quanities" of salt from your diet, it might be helpful to add some naturally high sodium items to your diet at least short-term to ease off. I'm thinking something like kelp, dulse and celery. I don't think that cutting out the salt suddenly will hurt you, but your body might be looking for some nutrients found in the salt so things like kelp would help supply those nutrients (and a salty taste).

[MiahTay]

I would think that if you were going to eliminate "massive quanities" of salt from your diet, it might be helpful to add some naturally high sodium items to your diet at least short-term to ease off. I'm thinking something like kelp, dulse and celery. I don't think that cutting out the salt suddenly will hurt you, but your body might be looking for some nutrients found in the salt so things like kelp would help supply those nutrients (and a salty taste).

I agree with annavon, our bodies need sodium (we know that) but if sea salt/nama shoyu aren't working for you, seek out whole versions of food that contain sodium that might be more acceptable to your body. And (this is my opinion) I would guess that if you have no other health issues quitting sea salt cold turkey would be like quitting anything else cold turkey ... you may experience some detox but that would be about it (again, not medical advise).

Blessings,
Heather

[rawstrength]

Why would you ever want to give up SALT?! It makes everything taste good and your body needs it! In the old days salt was a precious commodity.
(I may be biased in favor of salt because I am a long distance runner who sweats out a lot of salt)