Sodium

tammietifanie

How can i reduce the intake of sodium i feel like no matter how much i can control my calories and fat intake my sodium is always high!!! Is there anything i can do to flush out sodium ?

tammietifanie

How can i reduce the intake of sodium i feel like no matter how much i can control my calories and fat intake my sodium is always high!!! Is there anything i can do to flush out sodium ?

ivykivy

Eat foods high in potassiium and get in a good sweat.

omid990

drink lots and lots and lots of water:drinker:

angelinaz

Salt is essential for life - you cannot live
without it. However, most people simply don't
realize that there are enormous differences
between the standard, refined table and cooking
salt most of you are accustomed to using and
healthy natural salt.
.

If you want your body to function properly, you need natural
salt, like celtic sea salt, himalayan salt or grecian grey
salts, or even unprocessed salt from our Great Lake
. Today's common
table salt is a poison that has nothing in
common with natural salts.

Most common table salt is made up of chemicals
that pollute your body and wreak havoc on your
health.

Your table salt is actually 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 the natural chemical
structure of the salt causing the potential for a
myriad of health challenges in your body.


This salt from the Great Salt Lake is known as
'white gold' because it contains eons of stored
sunlight.
Salt offers all the natural elements exactly
identical to the elements in your body - the
very same elements originally found existing
in the 'primal sea.'

Containing all of the 84 elements found in your
body, natural salt:

1) Regulates the water content throughout your body.

2) Balances excess acidity from your cells, particularly
your brain cells.

.3) Balances your blood sugar levels and helping to
reduce your aging rate.

4) Assists in the generation of hydroelectric energy
in cells in your body.

6) Helps with absorption of food particles through your intestinal
tract.

7) Help in clearing mucus plugs and phlegm from your
lungs - particularly useful in asthma and cystic
fibrosis.

8) Helps in clearing mucus and phlegm from your sinus
reversing sinusitis.

9) Acts as a strong natural antihistamine and helps clear
up congestion in your sinuses.

10) Prevention of muscle cramps.

11) Making the structure of your bones firm -
osteoporosis can occur when your body needs
more salt and takes it from your bones.

12) Regules your sleep - it is a natural hypnotic.

13) Maintains your libido.

14) Preventing varicose veins and spider veins
on your legs and thighs.

15) Stabilizing irregular heartbeats - in conjunction
with water it is actually essential for the regulation
of your blood pressure.

16) Stabilizing your blood sugars.

17) Regulating your healthy blood pressure.

18) Regulating all your endocrine system and buffering
acidic hormones from glandular function.

19) Providing the matrix for all energy needs of the
body.

20) Helps eliminate sugar cravings.

21) Curbs the need for a sugar hit from smoking
a cigarette.

The Typical Table And Cooking Salt In Your
Grocery Store Has Been 'Chemically Cleaned.'

What remains after typical salt is 'chemically
cleaned' is sodium chloride - an unnatural
chemical form of salt that your body recognizes
as something completely foreign. This form of
salt is in almost every preserved product that
you eat. Therefore, when you add more salt to
your already salted food, your body receives
more salt than it can dispose of.

This is important as over 90% of the money
that people spend on food is for processed food.

Typical table salt crystals are totally isolated
from each other. As a food, table salt is absolutely
useless, and can potentially act as a destructive
poison. In order for your body to try to metabolize
table salt crystals, it must sacrifice tremendous
amounts of energy.

Inorganic sodium chloride upsets your fluid
balance and constantly overburdens your
elimination systems, which can impair your
health.

When your body tries to isolate the overdose
of salt you typically expose it to, water
molecules must surround the sodium chloride
to break them up into sodium and chloride ions
in order to help your body neutralize them.
To accomplish this, water is taken from your
cells and you have to sacrifice the perfectly
structured water already stored in your cells
in order to neutralize the unnatural sodium
chloride.

This results in dehydrated cells that can
prematurely break them down.

Are Losing Precious Perfectly Structured
Intracellular Water When You Eat Normal
Table Salt?
For every gram of sodium chloride that your
body cannot get rid of, your body uses twenty-three
times the amount of cell water to neutralize the salt.
Eating common table salt causes excess fluid in your
body tissue, which can contribute to:

* Unsightly cellulite.
* Rheumatism, arthritis and gout.
* Kidney and gall bladder stones.
When you consider that the average
person consumes 4,000 to 6,000 mg of
sodium chloride each day, and heavy users
can ingest as much as 10,000 mg in a day,
it is clear that this is a serious and pervasive
issue.

So Why Are Many People Still Using Table Salt?
Because well over 90% of the world's salt is
being used directly for industrial purposes
that require pure sodium chloride. The
remaining percentage is used for preserving
processes and ends up on your kitchen table.

With the use of rigorous advertising, the salt
industry is successful in convincing you there
are actually health advantages to adding
potentially toxic iodine and fluoride to salt.
In addition, your table salt very often
contains dangerous preservatives not
required to be listed on the packaging.
Aluminum hydroxide is often added to
improve the ability of table salt to pour.
Aluminum is a light alloy that deposits into
your brain - a potential causative of
Alzheimer's disease.

tammietifanie

2,500 that's how much sodium my profile is stating i need and i always tend to go over... is 2500 way to much in the first place...

sarabear

Avoid processed/packaged foods, like lean cuisine etc, canned soups, stuff like that is LOADED!

tammietifanie

Avoid processed/packaged foods, like lean cuisine etc, canned soups, stuff like that is LOADED!

That's what im so confused about cause i can't stand frozen meals, i cook alot of my food and never add salt into anything so that's why im wondering how am i going over my sodium intake... i also don't drink much soda but i do drink alot of coffee but that doesn't have much sodium...

MacMadame

2,500 that's how much sodium my profile is stating i need and i always tend to go over... is 2500 way to much in the first place...

2500 is too much for me from what I can tell. But I think my body just retains sodium, because I only consume about 1500 mg a day and my sodium levels on my labs are still on the high range of normal. :grumble:

I want them to come down because it impacts my blood pressure. At least, with the weight I've lost, I'm off my blood pressure meds.