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Salt - Your Way To Health

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The author of this book explains how the 'salt is bad for you and must be severely minimised or else cause high blood pressure etc. etc.' myths came into being. I was shocked at how shonky the science that supposedly proved salt was so bad, really was (and is).

To be clear, salt is very bad for you, if you're talking about table salt.

However, unrefined salt is an entirely different substance and is essential to good health, in the appropriate amount (and also makes your food taste MUCH better as we are designed to want a bit of salt in our food!) This book also explains how very low salt diets cause their own problems and how eating table salt uses up valuable mineral stores in the body, making table salt an antinutrient.

The author explains how he has improved the health of many patients with high blood pressure as well as many other ailments, with unrefined salt and all the micro-minerals it contains (along with a comprehensive and individualised nutritional medicine program).

Unrefined salt is not a miracle cure, just another part of giving your body all the tools it needs to heal itself as much as possible. We need those 80 trace elements in unrefined salt! They do all sorts of important tasks in the body.

This book is very short and simple to read, although it is somewhat annoyingly repetitive. For those that can't afford the book, a summary of its main points is simple;Drink two litres of water every day and add 0.5 to 1 teaspoon of unrefined salt to your diet (or your water) each day. That's it!

Incidentally, many products labeled 'sea salt' are just plain old table salt. Unrefined salt is NEVER white. It is often off-white or light brown, grey or pink and is slightly moist. It should also contain 80 trace minerals. (Look for Celtic sea salt, or similar.)

Don't believe the salt scaremongers! Read this book!

Jodi Bassett, The Hummingbirds' Foundation for M.E.

After reading this book, I felt like the conventional world really didn't understand the human body and how it works. Salt and water are what our body's require for survival and if properly consumed we as humans can live without disease and destruction.

A well written, easy to understand book, with much excellent and some new information, I have only one compliant with the book. While I like a certain amount of repetition in a book, as it cements the ideas in your mind, this book has to much repetition. Especially, the idea the refined salt is bad for you and unrefined sea salt is good. In spite of this one flaw, I gave this book five stars because of the abundance of essential information that it contains. For instance, I have have read countless books on various health subjects and never had the poisonous affects of bromine explained. The book is a fast read. In spite of the repetition, I wanted to keep reading and find what information it would provide next. Some of it new, but all of it important and interesting. Do yourself a favor and read the book.

I found the content of this book valuable and interesting, but this is not a book. It is an article bound into book form. I'm getting sick and tired of this trend for books sold over the internet. If you were in a bookstore and could pick up a skinny little book with oversized type and doublespaced text like this and it was asking $13+, you would NEVER buy it, no matter how interesting it looked. It's almost more of a pamphlet. And it is a sales vehicle for two particular brands of salt at the end. How much does the author make for this advertisement in addition to his overpricing?
That said, after I spent 20 minutes reading the entire "book" from cover to cover, I thought, wow, that is pretty interesting. His citations were not that convincing--if you actually look at what he is citing in relation to what the text says, it does not always look like it really supports the arguments. But taken with a grain of salt, the overall message of the book may have some value--in particular, that you should not go too extreme with salt-free diets, and that highly processed or refined salt is not as good for you as sea salt. I found an article by Brownstein online that has almost everything in it that is in the book! In fact it had a few paragraphs with info that was more interesting to read than what was in the book. It was at [...]

This just takes the salt issue a little more in depth,and why natural sea salt is healthy for you. Dr. Brownsteins' books are very easy to read, he states the research behind his statements thru out the book. a good book to keep on hand.

This is a quite short book and a book full of annoying repetitions but still worth reading. Is Dr. Brownstein right, are those who tell us about the dangers of salt right? Is unrefined salt much better than sea salt? Difficult to know because everybody tries to advocate their ideas as well as they can! Still, Dr. Brownstein talks greatly from the experience he had in his surgery, and that is maybe more valuable than those who did research using hundreds of thousands of people, more often than not unreliable research! At least this doctor seems to care about his patients and did all he could to help them.

I do have a few questions though, therefore the 3 stars! From other books I have read the relation between cholesterol and heart disease hasn't been proved yet and lowering cholesterol is not always a good thing, take the elderly for example, who already lose cholesterol in the brain due to the age so if they don't get enough they have a lot more change to get dementia. It is also a given fact that the women who live the longest are often the ones with the highest cholesterol. There also seems to be a link between low cholesterol and risk of cancer, for example. On page 67 there is a sentence I don't understand and which seems rather dangerous to me: "... by limiting their sodium intake to 3-7g (approximately 1.5-7 teaspoons) of salt per day". 7 teaspoons of salt a day is an awful lot of salt, I would say...... I think that one teaspoon is about 2.5g so 7 teaspoons would be 17.5g, maybe a dangerous amount? And 7g can't be 7 teaspoons. Dr. Brownstein should have had a proofreader! On page 77 I found this discrepancy: "The only salt Jerry received was the refined salt in food". Then his mother goes on to say that she never salted Jerry's food because she thought that is was healthier to go without it. Maybe Jerry was eating a lot of processed food? But that was probably not the case as his mother seemed to be quite careful with what he ate..... Also to say that high blood pressure is associated with cardiovascular problems doesn't seem to be accurate. A lot of people who have heart attacks, for example, don't seem to suffer at all from high blood pressure. But then... how high is high blood pressure exactly? Over the years the limits have been set lower and lower, maybe in order to sell more blood pressure medication?

Bromine seems to be quite a toxic substance, the fact that it is added quite often to our food and medication worried me! I have had a lot of cherry angiomas from quite an early age and from what I have heard they can be cause of bromine intoxication. The chapter on bromine and bromide is quite interesting as are the recipes for a salt bath, a spray for a runny nose, for insomnia, etc.

As far as the repetitions go who knows... maybe authors write a script which is then developed into a book and if the information is not enough to fill a certain amount of pages the editor then repeats things over and over again, I don't know! Many books are now written in this way.... they are more like articles which become books in order to sell, even if the information is not nearly enough to fill one!

I would say.... read and research. So far I have read other books that advocate the use of salt, as I have read several books that advocate the use of fat, the importance of sunshine and much more! Even if you can't know for sure who tells the truth you have to try to make up your mind and maybe the answer is to do everything in moderation!

Its been ten years since I discovered the adverse relationship between my blood pressure and the amount of my sodium intake. I have read numerous books and articles on the relationship of sodium and blood pressure. The evidence is so overwhelming that salt consumption is much too high in the American diet. The 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (this is the nutritional reference standard for nutritional professionals) addressed this matter and recommended no more sodium than 2,400 mg per day ... for middle-age people the daily maximum is 1,500 (note this is a maximum).

Someone at my local health food store told me of "Salt Your Way To Health" which I purchased. In my opinion this book has as much credibility as the book I might author titled "Smoke Your Way to Health" ... no one would give such a book any credibility except perhaps people with tobacco addiction. Likewise, I can't imagine anyone anyone other than salt addicts giving this book any credibility. I actually threw the book I purchased in the trash after reading the first few chapters.

If you are really serious about determining the harm excess salt causes the body please get, "The High Blood Pressure Solution, A Scientifically Proven Program For Preventing Stroke And Heart Disease" by Richard D. Moore, M.D., Ph.D. [copyright 1993] this book is a classic and is filled with science. Also the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans should be available later this year [federal law requires it to be updated and published every 5 years] ... please for your health's sake, don't buy into salting your way to health line. While it is true that our bodies do need sodium, it is also true that all the sodium our bodies need is contained in the foods we eat without adding salt. If you have blood pressure issues, read Richard Moore's book ... you will not be sorry.

Now ten years later and haveing strictly limited the sodium I eat, without blood pressure medications, my BP is perfect LESS THAN 120/80 ... those times when I have strayed and eaten high sodium foods which most Americans eat daily I pay the price by having by having my BP increase. When I remove the salt from my diet my BP goes back down to the healthy range.