| One of the major health benefits of preparing foods at | | | | refined salt are obvious, such as potato chips, pretzels, |
| home from fresh ingredients | | | | other snack foods, and salted nuts.Processed meats, |
| is that you have control over the ingredients in the | | | | such as bacon, ham, hot dogs, and salami also contain |
| dishes you prepare. You want the | | | | a lot of |
| highest quality ingredients, the foods that will bring the | | | | refined salt.Also watch out for refined salt in |
| most health to your body | | | | condiments such as catsup, pickles, mustard, |
| and your family, so you choose fresh, whole natural | | | | mayonnaise, and salad dressings.Canned soups and |
| foods, perhaps organically- | | | | soups made with bouillon cubes are full of refined |
| grown. But what about the salt you use?How Refined | | | | salt.Think we're done with the list? Remember butter |
| Salt Affects Your HealthSalt, as it occurs in the Earth, | | | | and cheeses contain refined salt |
| is a complex crystal containing eighty-four elements | | | | too.Natural Salt is Healthy SaltThe health affects |
| that are vital to life. These include sodium, magnesium, | | | | associated with salt--edema, arthritis, gout, kidney and |
| silicum, chloride, calcium, | | | | gall |
| titanium, manganese, iron, copper, zinc, selenium, | | | | bladder stones, high blood pressure, heart disease and |
| zirconium, silver, iodine, | | | | stroke--are the result of |
| platinum, gold, and many more. These nutrients are the | | | | eating refined sodium chloride, not from eating natural |
| same elements originally | | | | salt.When we eat natural, living salt, which contains all |
| found existing in the "primal ocean" where all life | | | | its original elements, our bodies |
| originated, and the same elements | | | | receive the salt they need to thrive. It's easy to just |
| our bodies need for good health.By contrast, refined | | | | use natural salt in any recipe |
| table salt contains none of its original minerals. To | | | | instead of refined salt. It's healthier for your body and |
| make refined | | | | tastes better too.But what about all those convenience |
| table salt, natural salt from the sea or mines is refined | | | | foods that contain salt?Here's a recipe that you can |
| to pure sodium chloride. | | | | try that is very easy. You can make this chicken soup |
| Then sodium ferro cyanide and green ferric | | | | with natural salt, then freeze it in serving-size |
| ammonium citrate are added as anti- | | | | containers so you'll have it on hand |
| caking agents. If you purchase iodized salt, it also | | | | to heat up just like a can of soup. Though it takes |
| contains potassium iodine, | | | | some cooking time, the |
| dextrose (that's refined sugar) to help stabilize the | | | | preparation time is very short, so you can put it |
| iodine, and sodium carbonate to | | | | together and let it cook while you |
| preservative the color of the salt. Instead of building | | | | do something else. Your family will love this warm, |
| health, eating refined salt | | | | nutritious soup.CHICKEN VEGETABLE SOUP1 roasting |
| destroys body health.Whether or not we are aware | | | | chicken |
| of the dangers of sodium chloride, our bodies | | | | (or you can use inexpensive parts like wings and |
| recognize sodium chloride as an unnatural | | | | thighs) |
| substance--a poison--and try to | | | | 4 medium onions |
| eliminate it as quickly as possible. The problem is, we | | | | 6 large carrots |
| eat more salt than our bodies | | | | 6 stalks of celery |
| can process out, which leads to edema, or excess | | | | natural salt |
| fluid in the body tissue. This is | | | | pepper1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. |
| why doctors tell us to avoid salt. If there is more | | | | 2. Remove any innards that may be in the chicken |
| sodium chloride in a body than it | | | | cavity, rinse the chicken inside |
| can neutralize with edema, the body get rids of the | | | | and out. |
| excess sodium chloride by | | | | 3. Put the chicken in a roasting pan and season with |
| making it into new crystals. These are deposited | | | | natural salt and pepper. |
| directly in the bones and joints and | | | | 4. Roast for about two hours (depending on size), or |
| are known as arthritis, gout, and kidney and gall | | | | until the juices run clear when |
| bladder stones. Refined salt also | | | | you poke a meaty section with a knife. |
| contributes to high blood pressure, which greatly | | | | 5. Remove the chicken from the oven and allow to |
| increases the risk of developing | | | | cool. |
| heart disease or stroke.About 93 percent of the salt | | | | 6. Pull most of the chicken meat from the bones and |
| produced throughout the world is used directly for | | | | set aside. |
| industrial purposes. It is essential to make products | | | | 7. Put the chicken bones and roasted skin into a large |
| such as laundry detergent, | | | | soup pot. Roughly chop 2 |
| varnish, plastics and other products.For these industrial | | | | onions, 3 carrots, and 3 stalks of celery, and add them |
| uses, chemical processes require pure sodium chloride. | | | | to the pot. |
| To | | | | 8. Add water to cover the chicken and vegetables. |
| obtain sodium chloride, all the essential minerals and | | | | 9. Over high heat, bring the soup to a boil, then reduce |
| trace elements that make | | | | heat and simmer for about |
| natural salt so vital to life are removed discarded as | | | | an hour. |
| impurities.Because sodium chloride is already being | | | | 10. Strain bones and vegetables from the broth. |
| produced for industrial purposes in | | | | Discard bones and vegetables, and |
| massive amounts, it is the cheapest salt available. | | | | allow stock to cool. If you wish to remove the fat, |
| Thus refined sodium chloride has | | | | refrigerate to solidify the fat, then |
| become our common table salt.Refined Salt in Food | | | | skim it off with a spoon. |
| ProductsIndustrial sodium chloride also functions as an | | | | 11. When you are ready to make the soup, chop the |
| inexpensive food preservative. Its | | | | remaining vegetables and add |
| low cost is the reason so many ready-to-eat food | | | | them to the stock. Bring to a boil and cook the |
| products are heavily salted. | | | | vegetables until tender. Then add the |
| Sodium chloride inhibits the natural breakdown of the | | | | chicken meat and cook for a few minutes until |
| food, increasing its shelf life | | | | warmed. Season to taste with natural |
| of foods that would naturally spoil very quickly. Since | | | | salt.NOTE: If the stock doesn't have enough flavor, the |
| foods break down in our | | | | next time you make it, reduce the |
| bodies with the same processes nature uses to | | | | stock in volume by continuing to simmer the strained |
| break foods down outside of our | | | | stock over low heat. The more |
| bodies, sodium chloride in food products also makes | | | | you reduce the stock, the stronger the flavor will be. |
| them more difficult to digest.When we are cooking at | | | | You can reduce the stock until |
| home, it's important to be able to identify which foods | | | | it is very concentrated and freeze it into ice cubes, as |
| we | | | | an easy way to always have |
| are eating contain refined salt.Some foods containing | | | | soup stock on hand. |