On 21/03/2010 4:23 AM, brooklyn1 wrote:
> Krypsis wrote:
>> brooklyn1 wrote:
>>> Nathalie Chiva wrote:
>>>> Krypsis wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The new bill sounds like one small step in the right direction. Looking
>>>>> at the obesity levels of Americans and Australians, it's come just in time.
>>>
>>> Huh... salt contains no calories... salt has absolutely nothing to do
>>> with obesity... salt isn't even a food... ban salt, may as well ban
>>> air and water.
>>
>> Where you find excesses of salt, you will invariably find excesses of
>> sugar, fat and other nasties in prepackaged or "takeaway" foods.
>
> Not true. And in fact when salt is diminished people tend to consume
> more sugars, fats, and larger portions, all equated with more

References?

> calories... salt is a wonderful appetite appeaser, sodium goes
> directly to the brain telling it you ate enough... salt also triggers
> thirst, whereas hydration flushes excess salt. I've no idea what you

If your body is flushing excess salt, that means that you have or are
ingesting far too much. If your sweat tastes salty, your salt
consumption is too high.

> mean by "nasties"... do you shit in your food? Unless one has a

Interesting concept! Do you??

> specific medical condition where low sodium is indicated salt can't
> harm you, the human body is extremely efficient in flushing itself of
> excess salts.

Salt in excess CAN AND WILL harm you. The human body isn't well adapted
to flushing the body of excess salt. That is why excess can cause an
increase in blood pressure. The excess sodium cause cells to retain more
fluid thereby increasing blood pressure. 300 years of salt excesses
isn't long enough for our body to genetically adapt to unnaturally high
levels of salt.

Making a concerted effort to eliminate sodium from ones
> diet when no medical condition is indicated is harmful to ones

Excesses of salt at an early age WILL cause you harm that typically
won't become evident until you reach middle age. By then the damage has
been done. If you consume a diet of natural foods, you will get enough
salt for your body's needs without any additional. All medicos will warn
against high salt diets for children.

> health... it's far more healthful to consume excess salt than not

It is NEVER healthy to consume excesses of salt. Ask any medical specialist!

> enough salt... one of the first things done in many cases when one is

You will get enough salt from a diet of natural foods. No need to add
salt to any food you eat if you consume a balanced diet.

> hospitalized is hook up the oxygen and the saline solution; without
> air, water, and salt one dies.

The saline solutions are used in hospitals as a disinfectant and those
in the drips are balanced at 0.9% NaCl to match the body's natural
sodium balance. Any more than this and complications arise.

Krypsis