Every day 5.9 billion people use salt.

Annual production has grown from 10 million tons to 200 million tons, and although over 90% of that salt is used for industrializedindustrial purposes that still leaves 20 million tons of human salt consumption.

Sodium Chloride, the salt we think of as table salt, is actually only 97.5% sodium chloride. The other 2.5 % is chemicals to “enhance our health” and keep salt from clumping: Iodine (sodium iodite, idolate or potassium iodide) is added to reduce the chance of iodine deficiency which can lead to thyroid problems.

Flouride is sometimes added to salt, especially in France, and another chemical that is sometimes added is folic acid.

Unfortunately, there are some dangerous chemical additives that profoundly affect your health, that have been added to make salt free flowing and to keep it from clumping such as calcium carbonate, aluminum hydroxide (which has been listed as a possible cause of early-Alzheimers), sodium silico-aluminate or magnesium carbonate. For help see Your Family’s Health.

It is this refined “table salt” that has tampered with the natural way of things, and caused such awful health problems around the world. In fact, Dr. Jacques Loeb, M.D., a biologist renowned for his discoveries on parthenogenesis, did several experiments with protoplasm (living tissue) and salt. When he placed the protoplasm in distilled water, it lived. When he added pure (refined) sodium chloride, it acted as a deadly poison.

It acts the same way in humans.

The best salt is Himalayan crystal salt, and not just as a salt substitute, but as a important health supplement.

Himalayan salt has been mined for centuries, but it wasn’t until anthropologists became puzzled while studying the indigent people in Northern Pakistan that attention was focused on these unique people.

Hunza men and women all lived to be well over 100 years with many living until 135! Disease is unknown to them, and the women are able to bear children well beyond normal child-bearing years.

It didn’t take scientists long to find the reason: the salt and water.

It is well known among holistic practitioners that while minerals can be easily supplied with vitamins and a natural whole-food diet, mineral deficiencies are common even among people on such high quality diets. Mineral depletion of our top soil and the hybridization of our plant foods cause commercial produce to be extremely low in mineral content.

The Hunza’s drink 30 cups of tea daily which they make by placing a chunk of crystallized rock salt in a pot and pouring boiling water over it. It is believed that their health is derived from the massive amounts of minerals contained in the organic salt, and their pure water supply which is filtered naturally through the great salt deposits.

Best of all, because of its unique crystal composition, the critical minerals in the salt are easily absorbed. See Mineral Salt for the exact same salt.

You can see how your health hangs in the balance. What kind of salt do you use in your meals? Switching to organic salt is a very easy change to make.

Himalayan crystal salt is the purest salt available. So switch to Himalayan salt for your Meals, and enjoy better health for you and your family.

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