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Aloha,

Just when we were getting more people used to the idea of using sea salt instead of bleached and chemicalized table salt…now everyone’s afraid of all salt. Unfortunately, this ban is going to cause drastic side effects like the massive Vitamin D deficiency caused by our fear of the sun.

I know it must be very difficult for government agencies to formulate health policy for the whole country. The message often gets watered down and can even end up being the opposite of what’s intended. That’s what’s happened to salt.

Cholesterol used to be the major bad guy in heart disease, now the battle lines have been drawn to include salt. Federal standards will be placed on the amount of salt that food manufacturers and food handlers can use in their products. It’s a good thing for people who eat mostly refined foods to have less of this salt. But what they are missing is the body’s requirements for sodium and trace minerals.

Sodium is the most important electrolyte in the body. You’ve heard about animals who travel miles and miles to “salt licks” to get enough of it for their needs. Humans have the same needs. We need to lick salt.

My tip for today is to be wary of the salt ban. Switch to sea salt and add some seaweed to your diet. Iodine is the next major nutrient deficiency that medicine is ignoring. If you really want to avoid sodium use a product that I wrote about in my book.

Smart Salt is produced in the United States by evaporation from Utah’s Great Salt Lake. It has the following levels of minerals in 3 tsp: 626 mg of magnesium, 865 mg of potassium, and only 1,596 mg of sodium. A similar amount of table salt contains about 5,000 mg of sodium.

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