Hi Stefan,,,

The body has a requirment for sodium, but this need is easily met by any
unrefined diet without any added salt of any kind.

We have know underlying requirment for added salt.

While I would not go as far as to say these products below are poison I do
feel the optimum amounts of vinegar and Braggs is zero and the optimum
amount of added salt is zero or very near zero.

Also I do not feel that sea salt is significantly healthier as it still has
the same major component, just because something is 'natural' does not mean
it is healthy.

Does anyone know how much sodium was estimated to be in hunter-gather type
diets??? I would be very interested to know!

thanks

Blake


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Jöst" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: '3 POISONS: Salt, Vinegar, Bragg Liquid Aminos' by David Klein


> Hi,
>
> Blake Graham cited David Klein as follows:
> >The major component of sea salt is sodium chloride, which is also the =
> >major component of table salt. Sea salt is touted as being healthier =
> >that table salt because the former has more trace minerals and the =
> >latter is heat processed. Nonetheless, sodium chloride in any form is =
> >extremely toxic--it impairs all of our metabolic and cellular functions.
=
>
> This is some funny propaganda. Sodium chloride is necessary for every
> cell of our body to function. Each cell contains so called sodium and
> potassium channels.
> Also sodium chloride is important to build the stomach acid. People who
> don't take up enough sodium chloride (e.g. fruitarians) mostly discover
> that they can't digest proteins any longer.
>
> This does   n o t   mean that you should consume refined table salt. But
> if your diet lacks sodium chloride or is low in it, like all raw diets,
you
> might have to supply it by using natural sea salt.
>
> >Because it is toxic, the body retains water to dilute the toxicity so we
=
> ...
>
> The further conclusions of David Klein rely on the false fact that
> sodium chloride is always toxic. Therefore I won't discuss then and
> jump to the next point.
>
> >A high salt diet leads to excess sodium =
> >becoming "locked into" to cells, creating cellular dysfunction.
>
> This of course is true. Too much salt, especially in modern diets which
> make heavy use of table salt, is toxic.
>
> >THE TRUTH ABOUT VINEGAR, by Kenneth S. Jaffrey, Naturopath, from his =
> ...
> >Vinegar is a poison and even when dignified by the addition of the words
=
> >"Apple cider" it is still a poison. Vinegar is diluted acetic acid.
>
> Since vinegar does not belong to the foods which can be found in nature
> I won't discuss it here. Personally I don't use vinegar.
>
> The same applies to:
> >BRAGG LIQUID AMINOS: THE SCAM REVEALED
> ...
>
> Blake, I would like to see some thoughts of your own on this topic.
> How about writing a comment to the articles you cited?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Stefan
>