All About Salt and Sodium

Written by Donald Gazzaniga


First in a series: Salt is notrepparttar only source of sodium you should be concerned about. Whenrepparttar 114841 USDA minimum daily requirement for sodium was listed between 1,110 mg and 3,300 mg, many people thoughtrepparttar 114842 USDA was referring to only salt. The USDA's reference was to all forms of sodium. Unfortunately, there are a great number of hidden sources of sodium in packaged, canned, frozen and prepared foods as well as in dairy products. (NOTE: Your vitamins and some medications may also have sodium. A Centrum Senior or comparable vitamin contains nearly 61 mg of sodium. In our low sodium lifestyle, that can be more than 10% of a desirable daily intake.) Following arerepparttar 114843 most prevalent sources of sodium.

Salt (Iodized) Commercially produced salt is 99.9% pure sodium chloride (NaCL), with 2,350 mg of sodium per level teaspoon. The old "salt mines" still provide us some of our table salt while some is also chemically produced. Sea salt is mined fromrepparttar 114844 sea, butrepparttar 114845 sodium count is as high with 2,132 mg to 2,350 mg per teaspoon. Sea salt does not contain iodine. When cutting salt out of your diet, you might want to replacerepparttar 114846 iodine by taking a multi-vitamin that contains iodine or by adding a serving or two of fish to your diet each week. Checkrepparttar 114847 labels of multi-vitamins to make sure enough iodine is available.

The history of salt is interesting. Some theorize that salt was as important to our history lessons as were all of man's other achievements. Napoleon for instance is credited with creatingrepparttar 114848 first "canned" foods for his army, in order to keep them alive while marching on Russia, which contained a lot of salt for preservation ofrepparttar 114849 food. Salt has been used for centuries to cure meat, but is no longer used for that since refrigeration replacedrepparttar 114850 need. Some religions still use salt in ceremonies as a token or recognition of past rituals. Withrepparttar 114851 introduction of refrigeration, salt was no longer necessary to preserve meat.

The Interplay of the Five Elements in Our Lives

Written by HealerGeorge


As you are sitting here reading this allow your awareness to turn inwards into yourself. We are going to discussrepparttar five elements and see how they interact in our lives.

A good place to start is with a simple example. Just imagine that you are going to do a little gardening. The first thing one does is loosenrepparttar 114840 soil. By diggingrepparttar 114841 soil what we are doing is breakingrepparttar 114842 soil up or should I say mixingrepparttar 114843 Air Element withrepparttar 114844 Earth Element.

The next thing a good gardener will do is plantrepparttar 114845 seed or introducerepparttar 114846 Life Force Element. He will then waterrepparttar 114847 seed or introducerepparttar 114848 Water Element.

The gardener has learned thatrepparttar 114849 spring isrepparttar 114850 best time to plant seeds asrepparttar 114851 Sun is getting stronger orrepparttar 114852 Fire Element is being introduced to completerepparttar 114853 balance of all five elements. As we know from experience at growing plants, if all five elements are in balancerepparttar 114854 life ofrepparttar 114855 plant grows strong and healthy.

Our life also relies onrepparttar 114856 balance ofrepparttar 114857 five elements. In humansrepparttar 114858 life force is introduced atrepparttar 114859 time of conception and overrepparttar 114860 first 9 monthsrepparttar 114861 mother’s womb provides everythingrepparttar 114862 foetus needs to develop. Whenrepparttar 114863 baby is bornrepparttar 114864 five elements come into play asrepparttar 114865 baby takes its first breath.

So it is easy to seerepparttar 114866 Air Element coming intorepparttar 114867 body throughrepparttar 114868 breath. The Earth Element comes in fromrepparttar 114869 fruits ofrepparttar 114870 Earth inrepparttar 114871 form ofrepparttar 114872 food we eat.

The heat ofrepparttar 114873 Sun providesrepparttar 114874 Fire Element and to a certain extent we also have an internal fire inrepparttar 114875 form ofrepparttar 114876 Digestive Fire.

The Water Element comes intorepparttar 114877 body by what we drink andrepparttar 114878 Life Force Element keeps enteringrepparttar 114879 body by our internal connection torepparttar 114880 divine.

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