Finding And Cooking Low Sodium Foods
Sodium is necessary for life, but not in the vast quantities most of us eat. If we never added salt to anything we ate or cooked, we would still get more than enough from the prepared and packaged foods in our diet. In addition to it’s good qualities, sodium causes high blood pressure and weight gain. These lead to a number of fatal diseases, including the big three…diabetes, cancer and cardio-vascular diseases. You can see it’s important to manage the salt in your diet, but it’s also easy to manage, whether you’re in the supermarket, the restaurant or cooking in your own home. Prepared Food Labels And Sodium: First, shopping to lower sodium is a matter of balance. You can’t rule salt out of your life. The trick is to buy less of the things with high sodium levels. So, it’s important to know how much is in there. That’s where the food nutrition labels are handy. They tell you how much sodium is in each per serving. For prepared meals, (soups, frozen dinners, entree, chili, etc.) I use the “500 rule.” If it’s around 500mg per serving, it’s OK. You’ll see foods with sodium as high as 2,000 mg per serving. That’s almost as much salt as you should have in a whole day, packed into one little serving. You really can’t go wrong in the fresh fruits and vegetables section. Though celery is high in sodium, it would take a lot of celery to cause a problem. Canned vegetables do have added sodium…some have a lot. Sauces and dressings usually have a bunch of sodium. Once we make a habit of reading the labels, it’s easier to make the right choices in the supermarket to lower the sodium we eat. The most difficult place is the restaurant.
Eating Out With Less Salt: As we learned in the supermarket, sodium is in most of the foods we buy. So, if they didn’t add salt in their recipes, restaurant food would already have plenty…but they do add salt…usually lots of it. I used to work as a cook…trust me about the salt. That’s what make restaurant food so tasty and what keeps us coming back for another meal. If we’re watching our salt, we should eat out less often and follow three simple rules when we do:1. Ask for dressings and sauces on the side. Dressings and sauces are added to foods for flavor. For instance, if you get them on the side, you can add as much or as little as you want, getting the flavor, but controlling the amount of salt. 2. Plan for a doggy bag. I know! Our parents taught us to clean our plates so we could have dessert. You’re in charge, now. Most restaurants give you at least twice as much food as you need in one sitting. To limit the salt, cut the servings in half and take half home for a snack. 3. Shake the shaker habit. We went out with another couple for hamburgers one day. We were served one large dish of fries. I was horrified when, without tasting them, he dumped salt all over the fries. The salt shaker is a bad habit many people have. Restaurant fries already have salt on them. The Catsup you dip them in has lots of salt. The hot sauce you put on them has salt. You really don’t need the salt shaker in the restaurant.
Cooking Low Sodium Foods: Since we learned at the supermarket how much salt is already in our food, adding more while cooking just doesn’t make sense. At home, it’s more sensible for each to use a salt shaker if they wish to add flavor. Marsha and I don’t even know where our salt shaker is. Several pastry recipes require salt for the recipe to work. This is not the case with any meats, poultry, fish or vegetable. Homemade soups use a soup base (or cube) loaded with salt. Canned beans and tomatoes have enough salt to flavor the whole dish of spaghetti or chili. We can usually just line out the salt in our list of ingredients and still have plenty of flavor. With vegetables, try fresh ground pepper or garlic powder (not garlic salt) instead of salt. Cooking at home is where you have the most control over the salt in your diet.
You can lower the sodium in your foods whether you’re shopping, eating out or cooking at home. We start by knowing salt is in everything and limiting those things that are high in salt. Before long, our tastes change and we begin liking the natural flavor of the foods rather than the salt we used to add to them. It’s possible to cut our average salt intake in half without giving up anything in flavor. Yes, you can!
Four Important Nutrients - Vitamin E, Selenium, Sodium and Potassium - For Good Health
Vitamin E
There has been a lot of controversy about vitamin E lately. In the news last month, the news media was pushing a story that “Vitamin E can cause you to die.” This story came about from a study that was made by certain researchers. In the alternative medicine group, they determined that this study was flawed. Most of the people in the study were already sick with serious illnesses.
Taking a dose of Vitamin E of 400 to 800 IU is appropriate. Higher doses can be taken for particular diseases - intestine disease, liver disease, pancreas disease, and surgical removal of stomach, but - for the average person this dose is enough.
The type of Vitamin E you should take is: d-alpha tocopherol - this is the nature Vitamin E.
When buying Vitamin E get the Vitamin that contains the family of Natural Vitamin E for better health such as, d-alpha tocopherol succinate, gamma, delta and beta.
Avoid using the synthetic Vitamin E. The synthetic is called, dl-alpha tocopherol.
The synthetic type is not good for you and can possible cause some harm.
Vitamin E is found in various foods including vegetable oils (corn, cottonseed, soybean, safflower - it isn’t recommended that you use these oils.) Wheat germ, whole-grain cereals, and green leafy vegetables are good sources of Vitamin E. Cooking and storage may destroy some of the vitamin E in foods.
Selenium
Here’s another important nutrient - Selenium. Researchers at the University of Arizona have done clinical trials that show those who had more selenium in their blood had lower incidence of colorectal tumors. Selenium has also been found to be effective in keeping the prostrate health.
Selenium is one of the best antioxidants and should be included in your daily supplements. The recommended daily dose for, Women is 50-55 mcg Men is 65-70 mcg.
Sodium and Potassium
I have mentioned in the past, that if you want to avoid being sick now or in the future, you need to work towards an Alkaline Body. This is such important concept that I want to tell you again. Eating fruits and vegetables is critical in keeping your body alkaline.
And, if you drink water it does not make sense to drink plain water. If you’re going to drink water why not drink alkaline water, and give yourself two important minerals that make your body alkaline - ionic sodium and ionic potassium. If you use a product call ALKALIFE, you can add these minerals into your water.
These minerals help to neutralize acid in your body. In doing so, it moves your body towards alkalinity. An acid body is destructive to body tissue, and to organ function. It attracts parasites, bacteria, fungus, and all sorts of pathogen to live and multiply inside you.
By adding 2 drops of Alkalife into water, you change the water from a neutral pH of 7.0 to an alkaline drink of 8.0. This is the best gift you can give yourself
The Fatal Three - Salt, Body Mass Index, and High Blood Pressure
Our Mothers used to tell us, “Enough is enough, but too much is just too much!” The same adage is also true for blood pressure. Your blood pressure changes from minute to minute depending on what you are doing. A healthy blood pressure is in the range of 120/80 mmHg. Blood pressure staying within the 120/80 to 130/89mmHg range is considered pre-hypertension (a condition in which the arterial blood pressure is sometimes within the normal range and sometimes within the high range) and blood pressure above that is considered hypertension (persistently high arterial blood pressure). Blood pressure is stated in a systolic number (which is first) representing the pressure when the heart is beating and a diastolic number (which is second) representing the pressure when the heart is resting between beats.
When your arteries are wide open, blood can flow easily through them. High blood pressure occurs if the arteries are narrow making it harder for the blood to flow through them. High blood pressure can strain your heart muscle and cause damage to your blood vessels and internal organs. It is for this reason that high blood pressure is a major risk factor for stroke, heart attack, heart failure and kidney failure. High blood pressure is a lifelong disease. It can usually be controlled but not cured. There are statistics that show that one in three American adults have high blood pressure and about 30% are not aware of it.
If it is determined that you have high blood pressure, there are things that you can do to help control it. These may include reducing the fat (particularly saturated fat) in your diet, eating less salt, changing your lifestyle by losing weight, and getting regular physical activity. Quitting smoking is also important to reduce your overall risk for heart attack and stroke. You may need to reduce the amount of alcohol you drink. Your doctor may also decide you need medication.
Since there are some risk factors that you can control yourself, including losing weight, it only makes sense to take these very seriously. Let’s take a moment to go through these one by one.
Obesity - Individuals with a BMI (body mass index, a numerical value of your weight in relation to your height.) of 30 or higher have a greater risk of developing high pressure. Your body is made up of water, fat, protein, carbohydrate and various vitamins and minerals. If you have too much fat - especially if a lot of it is at your waist - you are at a greater risk of developing high blood pressure. By losing just 5 pounds, you can lower your BMI by about a point. To calculate your exact BMI value, multiply your weight in pounds by 703, divide by your height in inches, and then divide again by your height in inches.
Too Much Salt Intake - We eat about 6 - 18 grams of salt daily (1 to 3 teaspoons daily). Our bodies need salt, but only about 0.5 grams a day. A high salt intake can increase your blood pressure. There are lots of sources of salt in our diet besides the kitchen saltshaker. We consume up to 75 percent of our sodium (or as it is commonly called, salt - look for the words soda and sodium and the symbol Na on labels) from hidden sources. Hidden sources of salt (sodium) included: monosodium glutamate (MSG), baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), baking powder, disodium phosphate (found in cereals and processed cheeses), sodium alginate (found in chocolate milk and ice creams), sodium benzoate (found in relishes, sauces, and salad dressings), sodium hydroxide (used in ripe olives and some fruits and vegetables), sodium nitrite (used in cured meats and sausages), sodium propionate (used in pasteurized cheese, breads and cakes), and sodium sulfite (used in fruits, grazed fruits or dried fruits). There can also be hidden amounts of sodium/salt in over-the-counter drugs. Look at the list of ingredients on the bottle to determine the amount of salt in them.
Drinking Too Much Alcohol - Heavy and regular use of alcohol can increase your blood pressure.
Lack Of Exercise - Practicing an inactive lifestyle can make it easier to become overweight. The extra pounds increase your chances of high blood pressure. Walking up or down stairs help burn calories. Even if you take a 30-minute leisurely walk, you can burn up to 145 calories! With spring coming up, I plan to get outside and go to the park or just walk the dog.
You can see there are lots of healthy changes we can make ourselves to lower our blood pressure that don’t require much effort. Take time and read the labels, give up a drink or so a night, and just stretch and exercise your body.
Cancer Links and Sodium Lauryl Sulfate
The cells in our bodies are made up of protein. It is important that these cells continuously rejuvenate in order to replace older, damaged cells, with healthy new ones. Every cell in our body is replaced at least once every 7 years. SLS, or Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, affects the bodies proteins by forming a bridge between the fat soluble and water soluble parts of the protein molecule. This disrupts the forces needed to maintain the protein structure, and the molecule collapses, becoming useless. The result of this disruption is that the body has to go into overdrive to try to heal this, and new proteins are being damaged in the developmental stage because they don’t have time to fully construct. This is exactly the same activity that can lead to the early stages of skin cancer.
By denaturing protein in our bodies as well as mimicking oestrogen effects, SLS also creates the potential to cause other cancers. It is known that high levels of oestrogen can cause breast and ovarian cancer, and in fact, cancer cells actually secrete their own oestrogen, which makes the tumor grow larger. This creates a huge potential for SLS to not only cause cancer, but to worsen it as well. Breast cancer cases have increased tremendously in just the past 50 years, which ironically, is about the same time that SLS products were introduced to the mainstream commercial products for their foaming qualities.
The combination of SLS and nitrogen bearing ingredients (most shampoos contain nitrate compounds) makes for a highly cancerous formulation. According to studies done on these formulations, evidence suggests that a single shampooing can generate more cancer causing nitrates than a pound of bacon! Whether by these means or not, SLS is a known mutagen, and is absolutely capable of damaging the genetic material found in every cell in your body, and has been strongly linked to cancer.
Although it’s virtually impossible to avoid carcinogens in our atmosphere, SLS is very avoidable, and yet they are the most widely used chemical in daily products such as creams, shampoos, household products, and toothpaste.
Surviving the Sodium Scare for the People of God
When you receive the Seal you start to change the way you eat. You eat less and you eat more healthy foods as God intended. One enemy found in great amounts in most processed food is sodium.
Processed food usually has a lot of salt in it, and so it has high levels of sodium. This is considered to be the single most harmful aspect of the common American diet–worse even than trans fats!
Recently the FDA has considered putting warning labels on foods when they contain high levels of sodium. And they might even regulate the sodium level in foods, setting limits to how much they can contain.
That would lower the sky-high amounts of sodium found in meals like TV dinners. When you are sealed you should not eat anything like TV dinners and you should avoid most processed food.
The FDA has not had to regulate sodium levels in foods yet. One reason is because food manufacturers are lowering sodium amounts on their own. Apparently low-sodium labels are a turn-off to people so they are reducing sodium quietly.
But this all shows the problem in eating processed food–what God gave us to heal us is turned into something harmful in processed food. God gave us natural salt to nurse us back to health, just as Jesus recommended.
Jesus said, “Salt is good.” It is that simple. Yet the high levels of sodium in all that processed food are causing high blood pressure and heart disease in record levels. How can we get the benefits of salt instead of the harm?
The answer is to eat natural salt like sea salt. When you eat natural salt instead of hurting yourself you can cure yourself of a variety of ailments, just as God intended. God wants you to be healthy, while man-made nutrition has a different goal than your health.
Processed food is not produced to be healthy. It is produced to have a long shelf-life which makes it less expensive to produce. That means more profits for food companies, not a healthier you.
But there is good news. You can eat natural salt and receive up to 84 minerals your body needs. You need salt because 90 percent of your body is “salt water.” And you can be cured of a variety of ailments.
You can be cured of respiratory problems, skin problems, lack of energy, and pain and stress. And much more. If you eat enough of the processed salt found in the mainstream grocery store it will kill you. If you eat sea salt it will save your life.
So you can eat salt, even eat it in abundance. “Salt is good.” You even need salt. You need the trace minerals you do not get in your food. You do not need heart surgery or blood-pressure medication.
Jesus came to give life, not to take it away. And when God sets the Seal upon you, He entrusts you with new life. You will want to care for your body through your diet, especially when you start to age a little.
And you can avoid processed foods, even if you have limited resources like time and money. Once you get enough protein you can simply add more fruits and vegetables and whole grains. This really does not cost any more than processed food.
But if you really want to glorify God more with a longer life, you need to start eating less too. You can afford better-quality food when you eat less of it. And you will look better and feel better for it.
Low Sodium Foods
When it comes to a low sodium foods lifestyle, every cook needs some quick easy salad dressing recipes. They are easy to make in small batches. These are some of my favorites:
Sweet & Spicy Salad Dressing
1/3 cup honey
1/3 cup canola oil
1/3 cup vinegar
1 tsp horseradish
I really enjoy this dressing. Amazing, you don’t really taste the hot horseradish when using honey. A very quick salad dressing to make adding plenty of flavor to salads! I enjoy it on a garden salad.
Balsamic Vinegar Marinade
1 cup balsamic
1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
2 tsp mixed spices such as garlic, basil, oregano, lemon pepper etc.
If your a fan of Italian cuisine like I am, then a balsamic vinegar dressing is a must. I use it a lot with my low sodium foods Balsamic is a dark-brown syrupy vinegar with a smooth sweet-sour flavor, produced in the Modena region of Italy.
Honey Mustard Dressing
1 cup water
1 tsp dry mustard
1 tbs. cornstarch
Cook until thick and then cool.
Then add:
½ tsp paprika
1/3 cup honey
1 tbs. canola oil
Mix well and store in a container and refrigerate..
By making it yourself, this can be a nice healthy recipe.
There you go, three of my favorite quick and easy to make salad dressing. Adds great flavor to a low sodium foods lifestyle.
A low sodium diet is often recommended for those trying to prevent or reduce high blood pressure, diabetics or those with chronic kidney disease. Research also shows that populations with high sodium diets experience higher blood pressure as they age. Low sodium diets also tend to have fewer processed foods and more fruits and vegetables, which carry their own health benefits.
Are you looking for a healthy lifestyle? I use low sodium foods to help fight high blood pressure. I am constantly asked about low sodium foods. So I would like to share with you how to go about using low sodium foods in your new healthy lifestyle…Rick
Shaking the Salt Habit - a Low Sodium Appproach to a Low Salt Diet
Congratulations! You have taken the first step towards a healthier lifestyle. First things first, though. Remove that salt shaker from your table and replace it with Mrs. Dash seasoning or a blend of your own choosing.
You will soon be amazed at how good your food tastes, now that it isn’t clouded by excessive sodium. All foods have their own unique flavor, which is brought out by proper cooking and seasoning, and not covered up by salt. Your taste buds will thank you, (you don’t know what you have been missing!) By adding a variety of fresh or dried herbs, the flavors in your favorite foods will wake up and be refreshed.
Supermarkets are much more accommodating these days, aware of the growing demand to offer low and no salt products. The Food and Drug Administration has established that “sodium free” labels on products cannot contain more than 5mg per serving. A “very low sodium” label may contain up to 35mg per serving, and a “low sodium” label can have as much as 140mg per serving, or 50 grams of the food.
By reading the labels, and determining how many servings are in one container, you will have a good understanding of what is acceptable for your own diet. A can of “low sodium” soup may have only 140mg of sodium “per serving”, but checking carefully, the label may show that each can holds more than one serving.
As an example, a national brand soup (10.5oz) labeled 25% less sodium, contains 530mg of sodium “per serving”, but the can holds 2.5 servings! That’s a whopping 1325mg of sodium per can. Can you imagine how much sodium is in their regular label? Yet, another flavor soup (10.5oz), distributed by the same national brand, labeled “low sodium” contains 90mg of sodium per serving, and the can contains only 1 serving. Such discrepancies are not uncommon. Don’t be deceived by “less salt” labeling.
To be really aware of what you are purchasing, read all labels. Compare brands. Each brand will vary from another in it’s nutritional content. Most frozen entrees contain a great deal of salt, because salt is a natural preservative, and therefore the shelf life will be extended for the package.
Recently I discovered that Trader Joe’s Market offers a no salt marinara sauce that is superb. My family prefers it to the national brand, when we use ready-made sauce.
But how much sodium are you really getting daily? Even your tap water contains sodium. Where I live each 8oz glass of tap water contains 8mg of sodium. Times that by 8 glasses a day and you have 64mg of sodium just in water alone.
To get a good understanding of the salt content of your favorite foods, invest in a good nutritional book, like Nutrition Almanac, by Lavon J. Dunne and John Kirschmann. (the newest edition will be out in December 2006). Or my own favorite, The No-Salt Cookbook by David Anderson and Thomas Anderson. Along with great recipes, there is a chapter dedicated to sodium content of most foods, listed alphabetically.
Soon, you will just know how to calculate your sodium intake. It will become second nature. You will be able to scan a meal and just know.
If your local markets don’t yet carry low sodium foods, ask the store manager if they can look into ordering what you need. Chances are you are not alone in searching for these low salt items.
Hidden Sources of Fat, Sodium and Sugar
You’ve probably heard the saying that that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
This is what happens when we delude ourselves into thinking that natural foods have less calories and fats then others, or mistaking too much of one particularly healthy food (cheese is a good example) for a healthy choice.
Here is a breakdown of the ten most common food choices that contain hidden sources of fat and sugar (and therefore weight expanding calories!)
Here are the Top Ten Foods that will minimize your nutrition but maximize your waistline!
1. Cheese Pizza - A pizza that has no toppings seems like it should be healthier and it is to some extent. However just two slices of plain cheese pizza will provide you with 760 calories and almost a full day’s limit of saturated fat and sodium. That’s without sausage, pepperoni and anything else! Your best choice is a vegetarian pizza, such as foccacia brushed with olive oil and flavored with sun dried tomatoes and herbs.
2. Canned chicken noodle soup - Brimming with salt, a half a can averages about 1100 mg of sodium. That’s almost half your daily quota. Go for the low-sodium brands instead.
3. Low Fat Potato Chips - The worst are the low fat chips fried in Olean (olestra). This indigestible fat substitute’s generic name is called sucrose polyester Olean doesn’t provide any calories, but in many people it causes gastrointestinal distress including severe cramps or diarrhea that they had to see their doctor. Olean also reduces the body’s absorption of other foods. Try baked, low-fat potato or tortilla chips, or raw veggies like carrots and celery instead.
4. Yogurt covered raisins - This is a common offering in health food stores and it sounds healthy because raisins are a source of iron and yogurt is a common health food. Actually yogurt covered raisins are full of fat and sugar. They are usually coated with saturated sugar palm oil, or hydrogenated coconut oil. You’d be better off to snack on a handful of plain raisins.
5. Corn chips - Most people think corn chips are healthy because they are not made from potatoes. However the coconut oil that these are fried in is twice as saturated as lard. A cup of corn chips will give you almost half of your daily limit for saturated fat. If you must have corn chips look for brands that are baked or low fat.
6. Fast food bagel sandwiches - These can seem healthy because they include healthy vegetables such as tomatoes and lettuce and low fat meats such a turkey or chicken. However the bagels themselves are full of carbs. Just one of these sandwiches can yield up to 700 calories, 40 grams of fat, 300 mg of cholesterol and 1600 mg of sodium. Try a turkey sandwich on rye bread with 1 slice of cheese, lettuce and tomato instead.
7. Extra large chocolate chip cookies - You might lose weight eating just one single cookie but it depends how big it is. A single large cookie, like the ones sold in Starbucks, has more than 300 calories and as much saturated fat as a 12-ounce sirloin steak plus 7 teaspoons of sugar. If you can’t resist, try going for the oatmeal cookies.
8. The Breakfast Special - Restaurant skillet-style breakfasts that include eggs, home fries, bacon, sausage and cheese - is not exactly the healthiest choice out there, considering the meal alone will give you 1220 calories, 70 grams of fat (19 of them saturated) and 1820 mgs of sodium. For a healthier alternative, try a couple of scrambled eggs or egg whites with 2 or 3 pancakes or toast and small side of fruit and cottage cheese.
9. “Supersize Me” French Fries - Stop saying yes when you are asked if you want your order to be supersized. Large French fries contain 600 calories, 30 grams of fat (16gms of which are the artery-clogging saturated plus trans fats!) A super-sized waistline is what you’ll get for super-sizing your fries at the fast food joint. A baked potato is a better choice.
10. Mocha Latte with whole milk - This is actually more like a heated milkshake packed with 600 calories and 15 grams of saturated fat. Forsake the whipped cream for skim milk instead and you’ll save up to 200 calories
A Low Sodium Cat Food Diet Can Extend Nine Lives
If you are a pet owner you understand the importance of maintaining your cat’s overall health. This includes monthly visits to the veterinarian, following a daily grooming schedule, and ensuring your pets environment is safe at all times. Feeding your pet a low sodium cat food meal is a vital part in maintaining their overall nutritional needs.
If your pet has been diagnosed with high blood pressure or heart disease we recommend a low sodium diet. This diet should consist of meals that has been considered USDA Inspected Cat Foods! Low Salt Cat Food!
These meals include: Foods with less than 250mg/100g sodium which can be used as occasional treats.
* Cereals: Shredded Wheat, Sugar Puffs, Ready Brek, Puffed Wheat.
* Milk/cream/yogurt (except dried skimmed milk)
* Eggs · Oils · Fresh unsalted meat
* Offal · Fresh fish (not anchovies/kippers)
* Molluscs (except cockles)
* Fresh vegetables
* Fruit (except mixed peel and olives in brine)
* Nuts ( except salted, roasted or pistachios)
* Sugars and preserves (except golden syrup and toffees)
Feeding your cat a Balanced Meal which include low sodium diets such as low salt meals.
Our Debate on Salt vs. Sodium Chloride
Sodium would top the list of minerals that have gotten a bad rap. Various reports and articles criticize this mineral to an extent that people desperately try to take it off their diet completely. This could be dangerous. The body needs a significant amount of sodium to live, because sodium balances the water content inside and outside our cells.
Sodium deficiency can result in symptoms including heart palpitations, dehydration, low blood pressure, muscle cramps, and low libido. Bottom line, sodium is necessary for your body to stay healthy. Then, why do the reports speak about the dangers of this salt?
Sodium has been refined with chemicals and so, has lost some of its natural healing properties, like many other minerals. The process of washing and chemically treating natural salt crystal results in sodium chloride. The natural salt crystal contains nearly 100 elements. The refinement results in just two elements, namely, sodium and chloride. Sodium chloride is what we commonly know as ‘table salt’. It is the combination of these two elements that is dangerous.
Sodium when combined with potassium, calcium, magnesium, and other elements is beneficial to the human body. In other words, the closer sodium is, to its original form the better are the benefits. Additionally, some people are sensitive to high concentrations of sodium.
So, what is the best way of getting sufficient sodium? Table salt (sodium chloride) is a good option. But you should get to know the correct amounts of salt that can be used in the foods and drinks you consume. Many luncheon meats, snack foods, and carbonated beverages have elevated sodium content. The body normally requires about 500 milligrams of sodium. Just by eating a variety of wholesome foods including vegetables you can easily reach this limit.
Many people consume more sodium than their body can handle. The human body can afford to handle up to 3000 milligrams of sodium. Excess salt is generally excreted through the urine. If the body receives too much sodium, more than it can handle, it can make you ill.
The best salt that contains all the nutrients your body needs in addition to sodium is the sea salt. It is ideal if you can use sea salt.
Jean Helmet is one of the editors at a collection of nutritional web sites, We offer a free health book for subscribers to our websites newsletter.