to salt or not to salt???

[yoginat]

Does anyone have thoughts on whether to use salt or not? I have heard both sides of the argument - salt is very necessary say some but just now have read Charlotte Gerson speaking about how bad salt is for you and in the Gerson diet salt is prohibited as it is so bad for you.

[trenchchic]

I love the stuff. If I didn't use salt, a raw food diet would be very difficult for me. I try to think of it like this - because we are not eating pre-packaged sodium-ladened foods, when we put a tsp of salt into a raw food recipe, is it really all that bad in comparison?

[Revvell]

I rarely if ever add salt. I get my sodium from my food.

[MysticTree]

Eat it if you want to.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

I rarely if ever add salt. I get my sodium from my food.

Exactly. Salt is unnecessary if you are consuming a good diet. People make all types of claims about salt being a miracle food, but even if it was [which l doubt], how much salt can a person really eat to make a difference.

Are the nutrients in salt highly absorbable like a colloidal plant form that is easy usable by the body? l think not, salt is in inorganic form as a rock that hasn't been converted to a highly usable form via plant absorption. Salt has minerals, but does it have the enzymes and phtytonutrients and other good stuff? l really think salt is over-rated if you are eating a good diet.

Anyway, salt restricts the arteries, which if used enough will cause high blood pressure as a result. Salt also can dehydrate you. So why use it?

[sport]

Salt is poison.
I want you to think of the life giving qualities of pure water. You drink it and it adds to your health in a big way. Now drink saltwater and what will happen. It will kill you over time and it will not take very long. The only difference between life and death is the salt.
You have no need to ever add salt to anything. I have been completely salt free for years.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

Sport knows. :wuv

[sport]

Sport knows. :wuv Sport knows nothing except what is good for sport.