Beware of Harmful Salt
Would you use sodium, a caustic alkali, to season your food? Or chlorine, a poisonous gas? “Ridiculous questions,” you say. “Nobody would be foolhardy enough to do that.” Of course not. But the shocking truth is that most people do just that because they don’t know that these powerful chemicals constitute the inorganic crystalline compound known as salt. For centuries, the expression “salt of the earth” has been used to designate something good and essential. This idea is erroneous! Salt may actually help to bury you!
Salt: Some Startling Facts
Salt is not a food! There is no more justification for its culinary use than there is for potassium chloride, calcium chloride, barium chloride or any other chemical on the druggist’s shelf.
Salt cannot be digested, assimilated or utilized by the body. Salt has no nutritional value! Salt has no vitamins, no organic minerals and no nutrients of any kind! Instead, it is harmful and causes trouble in the kidneys, bladder, heart, arteries, veins and blood vessels. Salt is the main cause of waterlogged tissues that cause swelling and edema (dropsy).
Salt causes serious medical problems and can act as a heart poison. It also irritates the nervous system.
Salt acts to rob calcium from the body, bones, etc. and attacks mucous lining throughout the body.
If salt is so dangerous to health, why is it used so widely? Mainly because it’s a habit ingrained over the years. But it’s a habit based on a serious misconception that the body needs it. Many people never eat salt and never miss it (we don’t own a salt shaker)! Your wise body doesn’t want it.
Once a person is free of the salt habit, salt becomes repulsive to the taste as tobacco is to a nonsmoker! Among certain animal species, salt acts as a poison (particularly in the case of fowl), and pigs have been known to die after ingesting large doses of salt.
