How generous are you with salt?

[kdmama33]

Sometimes I think perhaps I am taking the whole sea salt thing to the extreme, simply because I know it's not "bad" for me like table salt. Are you more generous with salt now that you are using "real" salt?

FWIW, I've had the same 1 lb. bag of salt for 5 months, and I've used approximately 1/3 of it.

I keep reading Fuhrman's ideas about salt, and then reading some of the scientific research about salt, and wondering if it really matters that I'm no longer using table salt. For some reason I have more misgivings about this than I have about any other TF idea, including saturated fat.

[Leilalu]

I eat to taste
I am pretty generous, but I use sea salt too.
Considering that imblances can be pretty dangerous, I think it is good to have a healthy amount of salt in your system. I really think that misgivings about refined salt simply don't apply to sea salt. Sure, too much of anything can be bad, but it's like comparing sugar cane and refined sugar. No comparison. Completely different.

[goodearthmama]

I, too, use sea salt and typically am not too salty, but definitely to taste. Since being pregnant I have needed way more too taste than dh. So, I salt my own plate so it's not too much for him. The way I reason things has led me to this conclusion: We have salt taste receptors so that our bodies can signal us too much or too little, so go for taste.

[snowbunny]

I have always craved salt--I mean, really craved it. I would eat a distasteful amount. Even though I knew it was bad for me, I still had to have it in gross amounts.

That is ... until I looked into it and started using celtic sea salt and other real salts. I think my body was craving trace minerals--absent from table salt--but found in natural salt.

Since I've switched to celtic sea salt I don't eat nearly as much of it. Largely, because I no longer crave it. Still, I'm generous in its use.

[Leilalu]

Originally Posted by snowbunny

I have always craved salt--I mean, really craved it. I would eat a distasteful amount. Even though I knew it was bad for me, I still had to have it in gross amounts.

That is ... until I looked into it and started using celtic sea salt and other real salts. I think my body was craving trace minerals--absent from table salt--but found in natural salt.

Since I've switched to celtic sea salt I don't eat nearly as much of it. Largely, because I no longer crave it. Still, I'm generous in its use.

exactly. See, I don't really crave it, unless I am pregnant.

[provocativa]

Probably, you ladies are craving iodine. Pregnancy requires much and breastfeeding even more. Of course naturally occurring iodine is better! Iodine is the chief component of some of the thyroid hormones, which you use a lot of during pg and bf. Also, it is the potassium/sodium balance in the body which is a health concern, not the amount of sodium consumed per se. People who eat processed foods consume too much 'hidden' sodium, and not enough potassium. Sea salt contains more potassium than table salt, obviously. Kidney regulates blood pressure by transporting fluids across the membranes using the charges of the Na and K molecules. This time around bf I crave more salt on my food.

[saratc]

DH and I use our natural sea salt freely. Electrolytes are very important for supporting many functions in the body and natural salt contains iodine and other trace minerals that support the thyroid and adrenals. I've always been a salt fiend. DH was worried at first when I switched salts and started using more salt and monitored our blood pressure for the first 3 months after switching. Our blood pressure has gone down. He's no longer worried, and I'm enjoying our yummy salty foods guilt free. We have a 9 oz shaker bottle and I fill it about once a month.

[RootBeerFloat]

We salt everything to taste. I was never much on adding salt to things until I quit eating processed foods, and suddenly I find that I need to add salt because I'm not getting it anywhere else.

[phroggies]

I salt to taste--and I have crazy low blood pressure (even throughout my pregnancy). I've never really worried about it because I mostly eat my own food and so don't have to worry about salt sneaking in, and I worry about it even less now that we're using sea salt.

[hethir]

We use Hymalayn (sp?) sea salt. It is pink in color and has tons of minerals. We use it freely, but I am not sure the amount per month.

[newcastlemama]

Originally Posted by phroggies

I salt to taste--and I have crazy low blood pressure (even throughout my pregnancy). I've never really worried about it because I mostly eat my own food and so don't have to worry about salt sneaking in, and I worry about it even less now that we're using sea salt.

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I did Fuhrman's vegan diet before TF and I feel like there was no diferentaition between processed salt and cetic sea salt in the research he presented. Most Americans are getting all their salt on Frito chips and such and then putting that nasty chemical-tasting table salt on their foods.

I find I don't need that much because it is so flavorul.

Jen

[rareimer]

Originally Posted by snowbunny

I have always craved salt--I mean, really craved it. I would eat a distasteful amount. Even though I knew it was bad for me, I still had to have it in gross amounts.

That is ... until I looked into it and started using celtic sea salt and other real salts. I think my body was craving trace minerals--absent from table salt--but found in natural salt.

Since I've switched to celtic sea salt I don't eat nearly as much of it. Largely, because I no longer crave it. Still, I'm generous in its use.

what she said.

i have always been a salt lover, and still am, but use much less now that i'm using celtic sea salt. i generally salt to taste, i don't worry too much about it.