Salt. Lowers Blood Pressure. Vital For Healthy Bones & Blood. Key To Proper Digestion. Salt

Salt is, well, "Salt," right?

NOT! read down to the bottom of this page where we see it's the TYPE of salt that all the brohaha is about - that altered crapola the major salt processors lie and claim is "salt."

It Ain't "SALT"!

What is it? Refined, altered, messed up unnatural, barely digestible garbage left over AFTER all the natural metals and minerals are removed and sold for far higher prices!

Some misinformed claim people are animals. NOT! However, argument aside, our metabolism is very close to warm blooded animals. The reason for creating "Soil 2 Cuisine" the Kindle title and website is to share nutrient-dense natural soil production methods and ways to use it to produce nutrient-rich plant foods, plus prepare them for the table.

This similarity between plant-based animal nutrition and us people is a no-brainer, I think! Here's a timely article detailing nutrient deficiency in plant foods for animals that directly relates to our people nutrient deficiency from the same plants and animal table products we consume that are nutrient-deficient from plants grown in nutrient-depleted and deficient soils.

http://www.seaagri.com/docs/salt_and_trace_elements_in_animal_nutrition.pdf

Note the section about salt issues with food plants.

One more point before focus on the blood pressure issue. This statement sums up nearly all the "bad" issues with processed "salts."

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Don't supplement your animal's diet with simple sodium chloride. In the production of common table salt, all of the other beneficial elements are chemically removed. Major salt producing companies dry their salt in huge kilns with temperatures reaching 1,200 degrees F, which changes the salt's chemical structure, which in turn adversely affects human and animal bodies. Avoid common refined table salt. Domesticated animals need the proper and pure salt." http://www.himalayansalt.com/Animal-Salt-Licks_c_27.html That page tells a short story of Alexander's army discovering Himalayan crystal salt.The site includes interesting photos of Himalayan salt hand mining operations. http://www.himalayansalt.com/Why-Himalayan-Salt-Is-The-Best_ep_49-1.html I don't endorse that business anymore than one near me that carries salts from all over the globe; http://www.saltworks.us/ Farm animal salt blocks are processed with added nutrients. It's OK to use these for people food - on my folks little farm I ate loads of this better-than-table-salt salt, and I attribute at least some of my healing many childhood diseases I experienced for my younger years with the mineral intake this gave me. That said, I cannot recommend using this manufactured salt any more than processed table salts. It is altered natural salt with the elements removed by processors to sell off at higher prices than the salt market supports for real and processed salts. Why do you suppose, this 50 pound animal salt block with added minerals costs just $7.59? http://www.farmandfleet.com/products/180207-champions-choice-selenium-90-trace-mineral-salt-block.html Yep! All the nutrients are gone, and the "salt" is vacant of it's natural nutrition value. Get all natural, ancient sea bed salt with all the nutrients in those ancient seas!

OK. Who reading this knows the FDA quietly published a years' long research that declares there is NO CONNECTION between salt and blood pressure?

Here's a search that will amaze anyone with its return of diametrically opposing salt v.s. blood pressure hype and swill from half-brained anti-salt advocates and HONEST research that is unbiased and clearly defines salt having ZERO effect on higher blood pressure with increase of salt!

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fda+says+no+connection+between+salt+and+blood+pressure


One of the more interesting and honest reports is from a French study published by Time.
http://time.com/3313332/salt-and-blood-pressure/

This report opens with:

"Sodium has long been labeled the blood-pressure bogeyman. But are we giving salt a fair shake?

A new study published in theAmerican Journal of Hypertension analyzed data from 8,670 French adults and found that salt consumption wasn’t associated with systolic blood pressure in either men or women after controlling for factors like age.

Why not? One explanation, the authors write, is that the link we all assume between salt and blood pressure is “overstated” and “more complex than once believed.” It should be noted, however, that even though the study found no statistically significant association between blood pressure and sodium in the diet, those patients who were hypertensive consumed significantly more salt than those without hypertension—suggesting, as other research has, that salt affects people differently.

As for the factors that did seem to influence blood pressure, alcohol consumption, age, and most of all BMI were strongly linked to a rise. Eating more fruits and vegetables was significantly linked to a drop."

More reports?

http://www.newsonwellness.com/2014/09/study-shows-high-blood-pressure-caused-salt/

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-the-war-on-salt/

This starts . . .

"—thegreater their risk was of dying from heart disease. These findings call into question the common wisdom that excess salt is bad for you, but the evidence linking salt to heart disease has always been tenuous.

Fears over salt first surfaced more than a century ago. In 1904 French doctors reported that six of their subjects who had high blood pressure—a known risk factor for heart disease—were salt fiends. Worries escalated in the 1970s when Brookhaven National Laboratory's Lewis Dahl claimed that he had  "unequivocal" evidence that salt causes hypertension: he induced high blood pressure in rats by feeding them the human equivalent of 500 grams of sodium a day. (Today the average American consumes 3.4 grams of sodium, or 8.5 grams of salt, a day.)"

Check out this search . . .

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=is+high+blood+pressure+linked+to+salt+or+sugar

Related: Heart rate v.s. pressure; No correlationship
http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/HighBloodPressure/AboutHighBloodPressure/Blood-Pressure-vs-Heart-Rate_UCM_301804_Article.jsp#.VohJ3fkrLb0

The key value to this article is the second paragraph. Adequate SALT in blood vessel walls makes them more elastic, LOWERING Blood Pressure!

There is no good correlation between pulse rate and blood pressure.
Measuring pulse rate does not indicate high or low blood pressure. For people with high blood pressure, there's no substitute for measuring blood pressure.
 

A rising heart rate does not cause your blood pressure to increase at the same rate.
Even though your heart is beating more times a minute, healthy blood vessels dilate (get larger) to allow more blood to flow through more easily. When you exercise, your heart speeds up so the blood can reach your muscles. It may be possible for your heart rate to double safely, while your blood pressure may respond by only increasing a modest amount.

More? You got it!

January 11, 2013 by DAVE MIHALOVIC Low Salt Diets Do Not Decrease Blood Pressure, Period This myth has to end. Those of us in the natural health industry continue to be shocked at the amount of people who still believe the unsubstantiated opinions of so-called experts who demonize salt. Reducing salt is a long-standing recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) which they say is as critical to long-term health as quitting cigarettes. Really? Let me explain why, just as many other recommendations that come out of the CDC, this one is misguided and misinformed at best.  Salt: If it's refined, it's NOT salt! http://preventdisease.com/news/13/011113_Low-Salt-Diets-Do-Not-Decrease-Blood-Pressure-Period.shtml The problem is not salt, it's the type of salt we use. It takes just half an hour for one meal high in table salt to significantly impair the arteries’ ability to pump blood around the body, alarming research has shown. Blood flow becomes temporarily more restricted between 30 minutes and an hour after the food has been consumed. "Most scientific studies use processed table salt as a source of sodium which the body has a hard time physiologically to process unlike its natural counterpart sea salt," said Dr. Jamil Najma who only recommends sea salt to his patients.  This article goes on . . . "A study published in the May 4, 2011 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association included 3,681 middle-aged Europeans who did not have high blood pressure or cardiovascular disease and followed them for an average of 7.9 years.  The investigators found that the less salt people ate, the more likely they were to die of heart disease -- 50 people in the lowest third of salt consumption (2.5 grams of sodium per day) died during the study as compared with 24 in the medium group (3.9 grams of sodium per day) and 10 in the highest salt consumption group (6.0 grams of sodium per day). And while those eating the most salt had, on average, a slight increase in systolic blood pressure -- a 1.71-millimeter increase in pressure for each 2.5-gram increase in sodium per day -- they were no more likely to develop hypertension. Dr. Michael Alderman, a blood pressure researcher at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and editor of the American Journal of Hypertension, said medical literature on salt and health effects is inconsistent. His own study, with people who had high blood pressure, found that those who ate the least salt were most likely to die. Lowering salt consumption, Dr. Alderman said, has consequences beyond blood pressure. It also, for example, increases insulin resistance, which can increase the risk of heart disease. "Diet is a complicated business," he said. "There are going to be unintended consequences." One problem with the salt debates, Dr. Alderman said, is that all the studies are inadequate. Either they are short-term intervention studies in which people are given huge amounts of salt and then deprived of salt to see effects on blood pressure or they are studies, like this one, that observe populations and ask if those who happen to consume less salt are healthier. OK? Now. You got high blood pressure? Natural nutrients that lower blood pressure: Here's the first few of a long list. I recommend saving this page to your computer so if it goes offline, you can always refer to it. Better, copy paste it to an eMail you send to yourself. "Using Far More Effective Natural Foods To Reduce High Blood Pressure  There are in fact so many incredible foods that work to lower blood pressure far more effectively than reducing salt intake ever could.  Pea Protein  Pea protein available in many retail protein powders is associated with a 6 mmHg reduction in systolic blood pressure According to findingspublished in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.  Tomato Extract Researchers in Israel found that a daily dose of tomato extract helped lower blood pressure. On average, their systolic pressure --the top number in a blood-pressure reading --dropped 10 points, while their diastolic pressure, or bottom number, dipped four points, both statistically significant differences. And just two ounces of tomato paste or a pint of juice a day could be enough to help many patients. Sesame Oil The study presented at the Scientific Meeting of the Inter-American Society of Hypertension found using sesame oil as their sole cooking oil lowered their blood pressure levels from 166 mm Hg systolic to 134 mm Hg and from 101 mm Hg diastolic to 84.6 mm Hg."