Mediterranean Diet: When Salt Isn’t Just Salt

What is often misunderstood is that the problem with salt is not the salt itself but the condition of the salt we eat. Regular ‘table salt’ has little in common with original crystal salt due to the chemical cleaning processes it goes through before being sold in our stores.

This type of ‘table salt’ is chemically cleaned by being dried out in industrial kilns at around 1200 Fahrenheit. This completely changes the salts’ chemical structure and as a result it adversely affects the human body.

Real crystal salt contains 84 chemical elements all of which are beneficial to us. The refined salt ends up containing only 2 or 3 chemical elements as well as a generous dose of harmful anti-caking agent.

Many of us fail to realize that salt is actually a vital substance for our survival as it regulates the water content of the body. Incidentally, our health is determined by the balance between the water in the cells in our body and the water outside these cells in the rest of our body. This balance is achieved by consuming the correct intake of unrefined salt.

Five Things you may not know about salt:

1. Salt is essential in balancing blood sugar levels – a vital element with diabetics.

2. Salt is vital in clearing congestion of the sinuses and also clearing catarrh.

3. Due to it being a natural hypnotic, salt is vital for sleep regulation.

4. Salt is very effective in stabilizing irregular heart beats as it is essential for blood pressure regulation.

5. Salt is a vital element for the prevention of a ‘double-chin’. When the salivary glands sense a shortage of salt, they produce more saliva to help the stomach break down food. In turn this means the circulation to the salivary glands increases and the blood vessels ‘leak’ to supply the glands with enough water to manufacture the extra saliva. This ‘leakiness’ extends beyond the area of the glands which in time increases the bulk under the skin of the chin creating a ‘double-chin’.

As salt is such an important element in our diet, it is essential to buy it in its most pure form. Himalayan Crystal Salt is without doubt the best choice as I will explain in a moment.

Firstly though, I want to concentrate on ‘sea salt’. On the labels of many brands of the salt we find in our food stores, the words ‘sea salt’ often appears. Although we might feel safe and reassured by thinking that it is a natural product, unfortunately in many cases, it too has been totally refined.

Originally this salt might have come from the sea but after being harvested mechanically, piped through metal conduits, put through many degrading artificial processes and cooked under extreme heat in order to crack its molecular structure, virtually all of the minerals that our essential to our health have been wiped out. This actually makes it little better than normal table salt.

Himalayan Crystal Salt – Real, Unrefined, Unheated and Untreated! Himalayan crystal salt is the most beneficial and cleanest salt on the planet and without any doubt the only salt you should consume in your diet. This salt is perfect with the Mediterranean diet.

It comes from an exclusive source in a remote (but extremely large) area of the Himalayan Mountains and is readily available to buy from various companies mainly found on the internet. It is, unsurprisingly, slightly more expensive than the ‘sea salt’ you will find in your local store but I cannot emphasize enough how important it is that you buy some to replace the regular refined salt that you are most probably using at the moment.

There has again been much research done on the positive effects that Himalayan crystal salt has on the body. These positive effects are mainly due to the fact it contains all of the 84 basic elements that we need to function properly.

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