I am not going to lie....I like salt. I put salt on just about everything and I used a lot of it. It may be a southern thing but you don't sit down at the table or cook in the south without it. I cut back slowly over the years because I knew that these little granules were what caused me to hold water and feel puffy. I had no idea that in fact my food didn't taste like food, it tasted like salt. Over the years I tried everything to keep these little guys in my life. I tried the salt substitute and it tasted like chemicals. I tried seaweed because it has a salty taste but it just make all my food taste fishy.I tried non -iodized salt as this kinda goes through your blood stream and doesn't cause water retention. I have tried sea salt, which I thought was the best thing, next to nothing. Then my friends I tried Himalayan salt. The superior salt, by far.
Know What You are Eating: Are you aware that common Table Salt is an industrial by-product, stripped by chemical processing of all elements except sodium and chloride - detrimental to health in isolated form? Anti-caking and flow agents are added, yet the FDA Code 21CFR101.100(a)(3), does not require their disclosure to consumers. Table salt comes from the same lots as vacuum-refined industrial salt and is treated with caustic soda or lime to remove all traces of magnesium salts, which are important for health. Important minerals are removed because they provide large corporations with staggering profits for use in agricultural and industrial chemicals, pharmaceuticals, ammunition's, and other unsustainable industries.
After extreme chemical processing and heated at up to 1200 degrees, table salt cannot support health and no longer combines with our body fluids. Table salt can also cause a deficiency of important essential trace minerals, which are abundantly present in HimalaSalt.The fear of salt has arisen from consumer alerts that advise reduced consumption of salt and foods that have a high sodium content. It has more to do with quality vs. quantity. Consumers deserve to know that this is not the whole truth, and the FDA doesn't require salt companies to disclose to the consumer what's inside, like anti-caking and flow agents, mostly derived from aluminum.Pure salt is essential to life.
The body is made from water and minerals, and all critical functions of the body require these essential minerals and trace elements, which are no longer present in table salt or heat treated sea salt. Table salt is in most all processed, packaged foods, including drinks, candy, snacks, ice cream, cheese, processed meats, etc. Eliminating processed foods and table salt from your diet is important for health.
By using HimalaSalt, rich with over 80 essential trace elements and high in magnesium, calcium, and iron, you can obtain easily assimilated essential minerals and alkalize your body, which is baseline for wellness.Sea Salt comes from oceans that in our lifetime, have become heavily polluted. Growing dead zones and the mix of mercury, heavy metals, and toxins from agricultural chemicals, industrial runoff, nuclear waste, raw sewage and more, have compromised all ocean life. HimalaSalt™ has been protected for millions of year in the remote, pristine Himalayas, and is Pre-People, Pre-Pollution.
HimalaSalt contains a full spectrum of whole essential minerals and delicious flavor that supports well being and adds delicious flavor to sumptuous meals.It's important to have essential minerals for health.When a salt like HimalaSalt, that contains over 80 essential trace elements, is ingested, it immediately works with the saliva (amalese in particular) and begins digestion. The more present in the mouth, the better the digestion, which then continues in the stomach.
HimalaSalt has been known to lower blood pressure, decrease water retention, and supports the liver, kidneys and adrenals to work more efficiently. It also can boost the immune system.Do your body well and use HimalaSalt for optimal mineral absorption, it also opens up the flavor of food, and has significant health benefits over table salt and sea salt from polluted oceans.
As you can tell...I received salt! I have never been so happy to get it either. I opened the package and I was so surprised to see that I had not only gotten a sample, I got enough salt to last me a LONG time :)
I must admit, I try not to use that much these days and sometimes go weeks without adding it to my foods (I really enjoy tasting what foods are like pure). However there are times when it is needed and if I am going to shake the shaker, it better be the best. Being that it is this close to Thanksgiving, this package could not have come at a better time. My family has called my way of eating many things. "Different" (which is my mothers nice way of saying weird), "interesting", "Healthy" and the dreaded...."Bland". This year I am the one that will be cooking the meal for Thanksgiving and the last thing that I want is to have "bland" food on the table for my family. I am going to be using all the kitchen magic that I can to make it as healthy and gourmet as possible this year. I am not going to be using things like butter, bouillon cubes (which my family uses almost anytime something is boiled and it is LOADED with salt), oil or the dreaded fat back to flavor my foods this year. I will be using pretty, pink salt! I already know that my folks will be wondering what in the world is it but with the knowledge that I have about it, I doubt they will mine using it. Besides, trying something new is always good.
Let me tell you a bit about the company Himala Salt. They were so great to send me an array of products!
Green-worthy, gift-worthy grub! Himalayan salt is the world's finest sea salt and HimalaSalt™ is the purest form of Himalayan salt one can find, created 250 million years ago during a time of pristine environmental integrity and hand selected for the highest quality in color, clarity, and purity. You can now experience the healing benefits of Himalayan salt in fine grain, coarse grain, chunks, cubes, bricks, Himalayan cooking slabs or plates, salt bowls, and more. Visit our online store and try our Himalayan salt products, HimalaSalt™, Artisan Salt Plates, Organic Gourmet Peppercorns, HimalaRose Healing Rituals for the home spa, and our new HimalaRose Himalayan Salt Massage Stones.Our artisan Himalayan sea salt and organic peppercorns are made using 100% wind power, certified by the Green-e and the Bonneville Environmental Foundation. Being 100% Carbon Neutral helps us do our part to reduce global warming, while providing you with the highest quality natural Himalayan salt products and organic peppercorns, artisan crafted with the purest ingredients from nature. Our organic lines are 100% certified through QAI, and all products are certified Kosher/Kosher Passover through Organized Kashrush. Our eco-friendly packaging leaves the smallest footprint possible, being either 100% recycled, recyclable, refillable, and reusable. In addition, 5% of profits go to the environment. All products are allergen-free and gluten-free, and produced in our Certified Organic/Kosher facility in the beautiful Berkshire Mountains of New England.
PLEASE go to their website to see for yourself!
http://www.himalasalt.com
Wow! This is a lot of info huh? I bet you didn't know that salt could be so complicated...I know that you are thinking that salt may not be the best gift in the world for Christmas but I am telling you, it is a beautiful thing. Look at one of the products that they gave me!
I got the most gorgeous square of pink Himalayan Salt that came with a Italian stainless steal grinder. AOL picked it as one of the top food gifts for the holidays, people have been blogging about it like crazy, and Phil Lempert, the Food Guru reviewed it on The Today Show, voting it one of the coolest products he's seen in a long time! I also got this:
Needless to say...I am hooked up in the salt department for a long time.Melissa Kushi, Founder and President of Sustainable Sourcing, has devoted much of her life's work to sustainable foods, farming, alternative health, and ethical business models. As a social entrepreneur she traveled some of the world's most remote and deeply cultured regions creating bamboo micro-industries in rural Africa, replacing coca crops with organic cotton in the jungles of Peru, and introduced heirloom soybean seed to organic farmers in the US. Thank you so very much Melissa for sending me this package. The quality is far superior than any other I have tried. I love it when the president of the company contacts me themselves. The customer service is outstanding! I got my package VERY quickly and it was well packaged. This company gets two thumbs up from me! Please go visit their site to read more info about their wonderful products and see what they have to offer. I tell you, you wont be sorry!Next time you reach for white table salt think about it. Salt doesn't have to be a bad thing. It can be a lovely addition to your table and foods. As long as I have this pink, mineral filled product I wont feel a once of guilt. We are so close to Thanksgiving! I can almost taste my pumpkin pie! Tomorrow's post will be the last one until Monday (unless I just cant stay away from you guys) so get excited! I will be having a great one for sure!
Tootles!
-Heather
