Salty Science Facts! High Salt intake is Associated With Stomach Cancer & High Blood Pressure - It's Addictive And Many Get Most Salt From Meats That are Salt Treated! We Actually Don't NEED To Add Any Salt To a Healthy Diet!
Recently I have been focusing more on Salt and Sugar as I clean up my life to remove all habits of all kinds. This Great video from 'Mic The Vegan', a public health student - covers numerous scientific studies on salt, let's begin!
As a child I became addicted to sugar, salt and at times to fatty, fried food and other 'foods'. As I got older I realised that these addictions and habits were part of the cause of my various forms of suffering, including being overweight, lacking energy/focus and generally being depressed. I gradually cleaned up my diet from the age of about 22, but I was also addicted then to smoking tobacco! At around 25 I did a thorough detox and was finally able to reset my brain chemistry such that I no longer had any attachment to the things that had caused me health problems for so long.
Even though I learned a lot in the process, I didn't really go deeply into the chemistry/biology of the nutrition involved and so wasn't exactly sure of how much salt and sugar would be 'good' for me. My general understanding was that if I ate a totally wholefood and organic, plant based diet then I would minimise my problems and that thought turns out to be correct. However, it is always good to know the details of exactly why these things are true.
In this new video, Mic covers numerous studies that explain the deeper details of what happens when we eat a diet that is high in salt and also a diet that is low in salt. He explains the role that low salt levels play in helping a vegan diet to be so healthful and how studies show that cases of Stomach cancer can be directly correlated to levels of salt intake on a global scale(See: Sodium intake and prevalence of hypertension, coronary heart disease, and stroke in Korean adults).
It turns out that vegans have 65% issues with hypertension (High blood pressure) (See: Comparison of Nutritional Quality of the Vegan, Vegetarian, Semi-Vegetarian, Pesco-Vegetarian and Omnivorous Diet and that a study of a particular jungle tribe who ate almost no salt showed no cases of hypertension at all (See: The Yanomami Indians in the INTERSALT Study).
Perhaps most surprising to me was that the majority of salt in people's diets in one study was found to come from chicken! This is because the corrupt 'meat industry' 'doctors' the meat with salt to high levels for the purpose of 'preservation' and probably also due to it's addictive nature - which is described in one study as being similar to the type of addiction caused by illegal drugs - affecting dopamine levels directly (see: Salt craving: The psychobiology of pathogenic sodium intake).
So could it be that not only is our 'modern' food industry needlessly torturing and killing vast numbers of animals every day - they are knowingly doing so while causing addiction in their customers in the name of 'service'? It sure looks like it to me. Pretty nasty.
Mic's Salt Video
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Children's taste buds must not be trained with a high salt foods like junk foods even regular foods like hot dogs because they will get used to a high salt food like normal. It should start in the younger years.
I don't entirely agree. Yes, some sources of salt, or more accurately maybe, the processed food it's found are, are way less than desirable. But we actually need quite a bit of natural salt. I wrote about it last year here: https://steemit.com/food/@kiwideb/the-sorry-story-of-salt-and-how-we-got-fooled-again
The studies referenced by Mic do not say that we do not need any salt, they simply point to the amounts needed being easily sourced through natural food and that thus we do not need to add any ourselves if we eat such a diet (which most people aren't eating).
Just in case anyone would like some better info on salt...
https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/abcs-of-nutrition/the-salt-of-the-earth/
Curious if by "salt" you mean only Sodium Chloride? or mineral salts & sea salt & himalayan salts too?
Don't fool yourself with pseudoscience. It is a marketing scam up there with light cigarettes. Sea salt and himalayan salts are 99% sodium chloride with some trace minerals. Himalayan salt is just pinkish rock salt. Table salt which often includes iodine is maybe less healthy than these two, but that's difficult to substantiate with evidence. Some salt that is already powdered has anti-clumping agents that are probably not too good for you. Nonetheless, I avoid salt with iodine and cut down on all salt.
Other 'salts' are things like sodium nitrite or sodium nitrate which are used for curing meats and are really bad for you.
As you can see in the video, he is referring to all salts typically used in cooking - he addresses himalayan and 'speciality' salts towards the end.