Great article! We have trained society to look for simple fixes so most won’t take the time to dive into the depths of healthy living. They would prefer to be given the GLP-1 agonist to lose weight or the fluoride in their toothpaste to prevent cavities.
You hit the nail on the head when you called out people trying to promote one ingredient or cause to poor health! Nothing in life is that simple. We are complex and unique beings and it should be our priority to seek health and care for others. Which is the opposite of what society preaches…here’s a pill to fix what ails you so you can get back to your hyper self-centered lifestyle.
Thank you for highlighting a point that I probably gave insufficient attention to in this post: our relationships with other people are actually a huge contributor to our state of health (although it's kind of hinted at when you look at the factors that were adjusted for in the ultra-processed food studies, such as marital status and living alone). It strikes me that many of these 'nutrition gurus' who preach absurdly simplistic messages, appear to be extremely narcissistic. In my book, you can be as fit and buff as can be, but if you have 'personality cancer' 🤣, I don't rate you as healthy.
absolutely - cut the CRAP. How subtly does the ultra-processed stuff sneak in? Table Salt says on the packet 99% salt which to me means (and I think I am correct) that it is 99% NaCl meaning Sodium Chloride which is a pure chemical. Un-processed raw Sea Salt has a LOT more to it including most, if not all of the minerals, 13 at last count, needed for healthy bones which are a lot more than just calcium ( almost all are NOT deficient in Ca).
Ultra processing de-natures food including destruction of necessary enzymes and other important substance which can be striped away or altered.
Thanks Robyn, You have obviously dug deeper into the issues than I have and I was not strictly correct as it is Sea Water that contains the minerals for bone health though no one should consume sea water if only because of the clear excess of sodium. The more processed the salt, which means for me basically all readily available supermarket brands the more likely it is contaminated with things like drying agents and microplastics. We truly have allowed major corruption of our food stuffs AND water. Add in the rest of the environmental toxins and we have one very unhealthy world for most people to live in.
It most certainly is an unhealthy world for most people. Living in a rural area, I have far less air pollution, noise pollution and light pollution than the vast majority of people, and I'm able to grow a lot of my own fruit and vegies. We're on tank water rather than town water, which means no chlorine or fluoride, but I do wonder what is coming down dissolved in that rain!
Great article! We have trained society to look for simple fixes so most won’t take the time to dive into the depths of healthy living. They would prefer to be given the GLP-1 agonist to lose weight or the fluoride in their toothpaste to prevent cavities.
You hit the nail on the head when you called out people trying to promote one ingredient or cause to poor health! Nothing in life is that simple. We are complex and unique beings and it should be our priority to seek health and care for others. Which is the opposite of what society preaches…here’s a pill to fix what ails you so you can get back to your hyper self-centered lifestyle.
You’re amazing Robyn! Keep up the great work!!
Thank you for highlighting a point that I probably gave insufficient attention to in this post: our relationships with other people are actually a huge contributor to our state of health (although it's kind of hinted at when you look at the factors that were adjusted for in the ultra-processed food studies, such as marital status and living alone). It strikes me that many of these 'nutrition gurus' who preach absurdly simplistic messages, appear to be extremely narcissistic. In my book, you can be as fit and buff as can be, but if you have 'personality cancer' 🤣, I don't rate you as healthy.
absolutely - cut the CRAP. How subtly does the ultra-processed stuff sneak in? Table Salt says on the packet 99% salt which to me means (and I think I am correct) that it is 99% NaCl meaning Sodium Chloride which is a pure chemical. Un-processed raw Sea Salt has a LOT more to it including most, if not all of the minerals, 13 at last count, needed for healthy bones which are a lot more than just calcium ( almost all are NOT deficient in Ca).
Ultra processing de-natures food including destruction of necessary enzymes and other important substance which can be striped away or altered.
All salts, including the fancy ones, are close to 99% NaCl - e.g. see https://www.seasaltsuperstore.com/blogs/what-is-salt/what-are-the-nutritional-facts-for-100g-of-sea-salt, https://koyuncusalt.com/en/salt-library/what-are-sea-salt-nutrition-facts). The amounts of minerals other than sodium that occur in sea salt are infinitesimal, and don't contribute in any meaningful way to bone health or the health of any other organ. Even the manufacturers of most sea salt don't claim that their products contain nutritionally relevant amounts of minerals other than sodium. Tasman Sea Salt waxes lyrical about its potassium content (https://www.tasmanseasalt.com/health-benefits), but it contains only 210 mg of potassium per 100 g. The lethal dose of table salt is roughly 0.5–1g per kg of body weight (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_poisoning), so if I ate enough of this salt to kill myself (28-56 g), I would still have only consumed enough sodium to reach between 2 and 4% of the recommended intake of potassium (2800 mg, https://www.eatforhealth.gov.au/nutrient-reference-values/nutrients/potassium), which is actually far short of an evolutionarily appropriate amount of potassium for humans.
The other minerals listed in Tasman Sea Salt are in even more pitiful quantities.
The only advantage of some of the fancier salts is that they don't contain the additives, such as free flowing agents, that are added to table salts.
Thanks Robyn, You have obviously dug deeper into the issues than I have and I was not strictly correct as it is Sea Water that contains the minerals for bone health though no one should consume sea water if only because of the clear excess of sodium. The more processed the salt, which means for me basically all readily available supermarket brands the more likely it is contaminated with things like drying agents and microplastics. We truly have allowed major corruption of our food stuffs AND water. Add in the rest of the environmental toxins and we have one very unhealthy world for most people to live in.
It most certainly is an unhealthy world for most people. Living in a rural area, I have far less air pollution, noise pollution and light pollution than the vast majority of people, and I'm able to grow a lot of my own fruit and vegies. We're on tank water rather than town water, which means no chlorine or fluoride, but I do wonder what is coming down dissolved in that rain!