Food from God and Unrefined Salt

      Hello again, world. :)

      Since I had not intended to start a blog about fasting and because it can sometimes be difficult to do other things while fasting, I took a few days off of my brand new blog. I'll just tell you quickly: It had a its ups and downs as fasts do and did not last long at all after my saying I wasn't sure how long I would go. But just from those days that I did fast I learned that all that extra weight I was carrying from my bad restaurant experience in Tennessee was 100% inflammation weight. Can you believe that? Nevertheless I am thankful for the gift God gave us through fasting. I am thankful that weight dropped off that quickly. I am thankful for learning something I needed to know about my health. And now that I am faced with that particular bit of knowledge I am thankful that I have a plan forming in my head to go back to the GAPS diet and finish getting all the healing I can out of it.

     As for my purpose with this blog to explore various topics that might be a help to others. I want to encourage every reader to consider replacing the regular table salt that most of us always have had in nearly every food we've eaten. My talents do not lie in the direction of being a good technical writer so I am leery of trying to give you any scientific language or details. However, since I learned enough about it to decide to try switching over I have only become confirmed in a belief that it really makes a difference to my own health. I still require my armour thyroid medication, but my experiences have definitely led me to agree with the hypothesis that the refined and iodized salts that are so prolific throughout the modern western diet are very bad for the endocrine system. And as luck would have it, they are not your only option!

      The most basic level of nutritional philosophy to back this idea up and one you will learn I rely on fairly often nowadays, is that the white salt in the little cardboard canister is not salt as it is found in God's creation, it is a product that results when man takes God's salt and tinkers with it to change it into something 'new and improved'. While we can be thankful that God has given us such wonders through the power of our own thinking and the twin abilities to learn about this physical world and learn to manipulate it, the fact remains that we often make mistakes and that some of the things we think we have learned turn out to be wrong. So while I am not anti-progress or anti-science, I am becoming increasingly aware that the fields of food and nutrition are areas where it would appear many mistakes have been made and implemented on a grand scale, harming generations of people.

      There are so many people currently struggling with diseases that at some point in the past were considered rare or even unheard of that experts across many disciplines are asking the question, "why?" I don't think the answer is simple for any of them. I think that there can be many contributing factors and I submit to you that the issue of eating salt that has been stripped of all of the naturally occurring minerals that we otherwise would be consuming with it is one of the far reaching factors that could be a piece of the puzzle in many different scenarios of poor health.

     If you want to make this change in your life, please know that it can be done. You can do it a step at a time.Start by buying yourself some salt that has color to it. Always let the color rule be your guide in choosing salts for purchase. It can be grey, pink, black or other colors. Just do not buy white salt even if it says that it is sea salt. You want to see the color of the other minerals in it with your own eyes. Remond's real salt bought in bulk is often the cheapest option for doing this, but it is not the only option. I've participated in bulk orders through a food coop that ordered from UNFI (and other warehouses before UNFI bought them out), through a local health food store that gives a case discount on bulk special orders and also through a farmer who I buy eggs and other farm goods from. She runs a food coop that orders through various other companies and we went in with her and several others when she ordered from:

http://www.saltworks.us/?mkwid=smhpSM0EV&pcrid=7341707762&gclid=CNXvuqnI7bcCFY9FMgodAFsAVg

      Look and see what is available to you in your area or through mail order! :)

      Next start looking at the salt content on the labels of packaged food, not for quantity of sodium but for the wording in the ingredient list. Some do use sea salt now and while you may eventually move away from packaged foods you can also just start being aware of the salt and buying more products that use sea salt or "unrefined salt" instead of those that just say the word, 'salt' on the label.

      Lastly, as soon as your new salt arrives at your house, remove the old cardboard canister from its place in your kitchen. Put it in with your children's science experiment kit or with your cleaning supplies and tell your family that is where it belongs. They will adjust after you tell them not to eat it anymore and they will be at least a little healthier for it. God bless you all!  :)