A Salty Topic: Is Pink Salt Good or Bad?
I am a passionate person when it comes to health and wellness. I do my research, I make sure to get information from well rounded, intelligent, and reputable sources. While I do tend to believe more than most people, I happen to think I'm pretty knowledgable when it comes to fads vs. facts. My filter is in tact.
"Should I cut this out or wait until they deem it healthy again?"
I Am Passionate.
Everything has the opportunity to harm you these days. Don't eat this, it could kill you. Meanwhile in another magazine, those readers are told that if they don't eat it, they too, will surely die.
You have to take everything with a grain of salt and do your research to find out what will work for you and what won't.
That being said, I think I've been dooped.
In recent conversations, it was mentioned that the popular pink himalayan salt and designer salts are not only unprocessed (we thought YAY) but impure and dangerous. Makes sense... Why else do you think they import it to America? Grrr
Do You Believe This?
I posted a question on my personal and business facebook pages, asking "What type of salt do you use? Why?"
The responses were as I expected. Mostly Sea Salt, Pink Salt, the Himalayan salt, "because it has more minerals." All adament about the amounts of trace minerals left out of the horrible processed salts, that can surely adjust any mineral deficency in our bodies. PINK all the way!
Yes, this is what I have been told as well, and lead to believe by many reputable sources. That's why I've spent $4-6 on a jar of pink salt, and adament to use it in all recipes, knowing I was doing something healthy for my family.
However, this topic came up in conversation as a possible reason for some health symptoms I've been experiencing and it spun my head around. Maybe it will yours, too. Now I am paraphrasing a bit, but this was the jist of the conversation.
A fellow who brings the pink salt over here for sale mentioned to me that they laugh about it, they know it's poison and they don't eat it. They know that the gullible American will though. It's fish poop and impurities. So they export it, sell it for a higher price. Claiming "it's expensively mined from the Himalayan region." Sorry to say, your salt lamps are bad news, too.
"That can't be true. It has all the minerals we need. I've done the research!" Well... it does have more minerals, right? We need those, right? Read this.
Yes. It had many more minerals than the white salt we are used to, but are they good ones? Apparently, in addition to a few good ones, there are multiple radioactive particles present as well as shellfish, mercury..Yikes. Trace minerals, yes, but ingested often enough, even trace amounts make a difference.
And what's worse, those minerals help to leach the good minerals from your system. Really-- pink salt is horrible for you. And I've been substituting it on everything, thinking the exact opposite.
And this:
At the same time, we are also shown articles like this.
I got dooped. I think.
It’s ok. I learned. But what is the truth? Am I dooped by the dooper? Nah, it makes sense that we need processed salt. Though I've been engrained to hate the word, "processed."
It’s a never ending cycle of what is right and wrong. Eventually, you have to stop thinking others have all the answers and start listening to your body. You have to stop.
Literally.
Stop what you are doing. Stand up tall. Stretch your arms to the ceiling and breathe out. Welcome in a breath of fresh air with the idea that new lessons have been learned, new keys found, new doors unlocked, and the ability to listen to your body.
Knowing what is right for you comes 50% from all the knowledge you can soak up from multiple sources and 50% knowing what your body is saying so that it can properly digest that knowledge. Not everything is cut and dry as told to you by any source. Medical professionals, books, quacks, blogs, articles, posts, Facebook friends, real friends…. even me. We all have opinions that float into the style of our work and you have to decipher what is truth FOR YOU.
Take everything with a grain of salt.
White table salt apparently.
