Salt ~ sea or mountain salt

The two newest products in Savings, Naturally’s new products list are pink salts – a package of table salt weighing 250 grams and a package of coarse granulated cooking salt weighing 750 grams.

I guess salt is not what everyone thinks of as a natural supplement. Regular table salt is heavily processed – it’s sodium chloride with iodine added. The heart disease epidemic in the world is linked with the overuse of sodium chloride in the diet – in everything from chips (where you might expect salt to be) to sweet drinks (where you wouldn’t). High salt usage is linked to hypertension or high blood pressure.

But it’s no good going completely the other way and not having any salt with your diet, because then, as Dr. Jonn Matsen explains on his website, Northshore Naturopathic Clinic, or in his books, Eating Alive and Eating Alive II, a well balanced sodium/potassium ion ratio from the foods we eat helps us avoid having ileocecal valve problems that include the friendly bacteria that inhabit the large intestine leaking up into the small intestine, where they can cause feelings of bloating and rumbling.

So, if you want to go “natural,” it’s a good idea to replace heavily processed sodium-chloride-with-iodine-added with a sea salt – or perhaps a mountain salt – for the minerals and trace elements the salt carries. Altura’s pink salts have been harvested at 3,000 meters above sea level in the heart of the Andes Mountains. Was an ocean trapped there as a lake some eons ago, a lake that dried up, leaving a layer of natural sea salt behind?

Whether you decide to use Altura’s pink salts or some other sea/mountain salt, make a change for which your body will thank you and use a minimally processed sea salt or mountain salt for cooking and table use.

Best of health, naturally,
Nina