Why is sea salt considered a healthy alternative to regular table salt?!
Why is sea salt considered a healthy alternative to regular table salt?
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It's considered 'healthy' because of a few things. One, because of marketing. Sodium has been demonized in the media for the last couple of years and the salt companies need to make money somehow but sea salt is mostly sodium chloride. Two, it has trace minerals and elements not found in pure table salt. So, it is healthier then regular salt but the question is, how much healthier? Remember, you can get numbers to say just about anything you want in a study to promote or demonize a product.
Personally, if you want to have a healthier alternative to table salt, use salt substitute that is 100% potassium chloride (additives are allowed, just not 50/50 sodium/potassium. Pretty much everyone is deficient in potassium and overloading on sodium makes us throw out the baby (potassium) with the bathwater (sodium) and potassium is required for the nervous system. People recommend that you eat foods rich in potassium, which is fine, until you consider that the American Medical Association recommend that you consume twice as much potassium as you do sodium on a daily basis. At 400 mg of potassium per medium banana, that's 5 bananas to offset a single serving of some varities of Campbell's soup and each can has 2 servings so that's 10 bananas. Or, you can add salt to your food. When I started using potassium chloride liberally (ask your doctor first), my severe leg cramps went away, that so-called RLS (Restless Leg Syndrome) that can only be treated with prescriptions that I had went away permanently, and false pains were reduced dramatically. My leg cramps were so bad I was taking the potassium chloride straight in pea sized amounts with ice water. Quite nasty, but at least I wasn't on the floor with leg cramps hours later. I could have easily spent a hundred bucks a month on painkillers and RLS medication if I didn't buy a 2 dollar salt shaker that lasts me months. Try it out if you have these problems, you might be glad.