I read labels, so when I grabbed table salt off the grocery shelf, I anticipated one ingredient: sodium chloride, NaCl. Dextrose, aka sugar, was the second ingredient! Iodized Morton salt says that the dextrose stabilizes the added iodide. Why'd they remove it to begin with?
Entwined into the daily lives of ancient civilizations, salt has been an integral part of world history. Time magazine reported in ancient Abyssinia, slabs of rock salt were the coin du jour. Cakes of salt were used as money in areas of central Africa.
Time continues, "Since ancient times, animals wore paths to salt licks; men followed; trails became roads, and settlements grew beside them. When the human menu shifted from salt-rich game to cereals, more salt was needed to supplement the diet. As early as the 6th century, sub-Sahara Moorish merchants traded one ounce of salt for one ounce of gold. Roman soldiers were often paid in salt; a ‘salarium’ from which our word “salary' originates." It was said a soldier was “worth his salt.”
Table salt often contains anti-caking agents and an iodide salt – so devoid of nutrients via processing that in the early 20th century, doctors noticed people who ate white table salt started to suffer chronic degenerative diseases such as goiter. Every cell in your holy temple needs and relies on salt to sustain bone density, proper circulation and stabilized blood sugar. Your temple recognizes processed table salt as an aggressive cellular poison, an unnatural substance. Ever wonder why you crave salt? Salt is an addiction similar the addictions to alcohol, tobacco, sugar and caffeine.
Sodium aluminosilicate is a sugar used to stabilize the iodide. Table salt is 97.5% sodium chloride and 2.5% chemicals, such as moisture absorbents and iodine. Dried at over 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit, the excessive heat alters salt's structure. The Global Healing Center says many of today's commercial table salts contain man-made forms of sodium solo-co-aluminate, iodide, sodium bicarbonate, fluoride, anti-caking agents, and toxic amounts of potassium iodide and aluminum derivatives. Hence, most table salt is unwholesome and sometimes toxic. It's also cleaned with bleach.
Himalayan salt is the purest on earth; uncontaminated with toxins or pollutants. It's an unrefined, unprocessed "raw" salt that's hand-mined from 250-million-year-old salt caves formed as ocean salt settled in certain geologic pockets of lava-covered, crystalized sea beds around our earth. Not an industrial complex.
Himalayan pink crystal salt contains 84 minerals and trace minerals, including organic iodine. Himalayan salt has heavenly health benefits that do wonders for your holy temple. Untouched by pollution, in its natural habitat, Himalayan salt is a rich source of some very important minerals like sodium chloride, sulphate, calcium, potassium and magnesium. It contains the same impressive 84 trace minerals and elements that are found in the human body.
Himalayan salt will give you less sodium intake than table salt, because it's unrefined and the crystals are larger. The minerals in Himalayan salt exist in colloidal form, meaning they're small enough for our cells to easily absorb. Another great thing about Himalayan salt: because of its cellular structure it stores the positive vibrational energy Einstein references.
Today, we see why health authorities are screaming: common table salt is bad for our health. Stop the insanity and drop the table salt shaker. Put on the reading glasses and become a smart label reader. Let God's apothecary nurture your holy temple.
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