Salt saves, salt kills.Written by Dr. Donald A. Miller
Salt is essential to health. This means sodium chloride and potassium chloride, with traces of other mineral salts. If you sweat a lot at work or play, lack of salt can cause "heat stroke". Salt can kill. Excess salt is probably biggest dietary health risk factor after fats, in any country that uses a lot of prepared foods. Avoid salty-fatty snack foods. Restrict salt added to foods during cooking. As a kid, I used to salt everything at meal time, often
| | Real Soy SauceWritten by Dr. Donald A. Miller
When I was growing up, I thought soy sauce was salty water with dark coloring and some secret soy and wheat stuff mixed in. That's because my parents did not know any better than to buy LaChoy brand.Some of cheapy stuff from China is not any better. Oriental friends introduced me to real home cooked delights that one never finds in a typical Chinese or Japanese restaurant in this country. They even introduced me to authentic ethnic restaurants. I gradually learned that there is a tremendous variety in Soy Sauce, whether made with added wheat (Shoyu) or without (Tamari). Some connoisseurs spend as much time studying character of soy sauces as others do on wines.
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