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From:	Just Me (67.137.157.170)
Subject:	Re: Could you please eleborate a little more what's the price you pay adding salt to one's diet?
Date:	March 8, 2012 at 2:04 pm PST

In Reply to: Could you please eleborate a little more what's the price you pay adding salt to one's diet? posted by Mangoes Are Awesome on March 8, 2012 at 12:11 pm:

By any chance have you read Dr. Graham's FAQs?

http://foodnsport.com/faq.php

Particularly in regard to sea salt:

"Our bodies do require sodium, in the small amounts naturally occurring in whole plant foods. However, extracted from any source, is an irritant and is toxic to the body. It causes a decay of the sense of taste, retards digestion/excretion, and impairs the critical cellular potassium/sodium ratio upsetting our natural water balance. Drinking sea water causes dehydration and results in death in only a few days due to the salt content; extracting the salt from the water and ingesting it leads in the same direction. 'You would not drink ocean water, as the salt in it is vile, caustic, irritating and in quantity, deadly, even though it is diluted by a lot of water.'"

And, here's just a bit more on salt found in The 80-10-10 Diet (which, I HIGHLY recommend if you don't have it already):

"Plain table salt is so toxic that even when extremely diluted, as it is in sea water, it is still deadly. All sailors know that if they drink seawater they will die of dehydration. Salt must be greatly diluted with water before the body can tolerate it." [The 80-10-10 Diet, p. 150]

"Extracted sodium chloride, in any form is an irritant and is toxic to the body. It deadens the taste buds' ability to sense sweet, sour, or bitter (which is why salt users often says that food has no taste without salt), retards digestion and excretion, and upsets our critical natural water balance. . . . We must take care to distinguish [] between extracted sodium chloride "salt" (which is deadly), and the sodium and other salts that occur naturally and abundantly in whole plant foods (which are vitally important nutrients needed by every cell of our bodies). Eating a variety of vegetables, especially celery and tomatoes, provides all the organic salts and other minerals our bodies need in just the right amounts and combinations we require. . . . Removing the salt from seawater gives us sea salt, the very substance that causes death by dehydration. Consuming sodium chloride of any kind -- including sea salts and other highly marketed, pricey specialty salts -- is a self-destructive practice. . . . True, we need minerals . . . but we need to ingest them in the quantities and the form in which they occur in whole plant foods. Eating a highly mineralized form of poison makes no logical sense whatsoever. . . . I cannot overemphasize the importance of making the commitment to wean yourself from this ubiquitous poison." [The 80-10-10 Diet, p. 253]

I could go on, but you get the picture.

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