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Current scientific research reveals that there are actually very few salt-related health problems. A healthy, active lifestyle demands sufficient salt intake. The contention that our body can function on no salt at all, or on a restricted ration of salt, causes more problems than it is intended to solve! Life is closely dependent upon the presence of sodium but, to clearly understand the role of sodium in blood, we must examine it in combination with water and various ions, e.g. chlorine, potassium, calcium, hydrogen. Sodium chloride, for instance, plays an important part in the primary processes of digestion and absorption by activating the first enzyme in the mouth, salivary amylase. In the parietal cells of the stomach wall, sodium chloride is used to make hydrochloric acid, essential to good digestion.

The medical/pharmaceutical establishment would have you believe that a low salt diet would have you live longer, when the facts are as follows:

• A low salt diet for the treatment of high blood pressure is a national disgrace based on dogma rather then evidence.
• A salt-restricted diet can actually raise your blood pressure
• A lack of salt can cause accelerated aging, cellular degeneration, and biochemical starvation
• A lack of salt can literally cripple your health, cause liver failure, kidney problems, and massive adrenal exhaustion
• A salt-free diet tires the muscles of your heart and can cause a fatal heart attack
• The healing power of GOOD salt equals those of vitamin C, vitamin E and many other nutrients

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