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Jerzy Zięba claims that Kłodawa salt comes from the same deposit as Himalayan salt, and that its pink color is not due to a coloring agent.
- He considers unprocessed sea salt the healthiest; Henryk Różański also values unrefined salts rich in elements.
- Zięba criticizes refining and considers white table salt harmful.
- Prof. Klaus F. Kopp warns against excessive salt intake, especially for people with heart or kidney disease or high blood pressure, and for pregnant women.
What the authors write
Jerzy Zięba
Kłodawa salt comes from the same deposit as Himalayan salt, and its pink color is not due to a coloring agent.
„It is this salt that comes from the same deposit as the famous Himalayan salt. Kłodawa salt is sometimes white and sometimes pink, but that is not because—as in some cases with Himalayan salt—someone bought refined salt, added coloring, and sold it as Himalayan salt.”To właśnie ona pochodzi z takiego samego złoża, jak słynna sól himalajska. Sól kłodawska czasami jest biała a czasami różowa, ale to nie wynika z tego, że – jak w niektórych przypadkach soli himalajskiej – ktoś kupił sól rafinowaną, dodał barwnika i sprzedaje ją jako sól himalajską.
Jerzy Zięba
Jerzy Zięba considers sea salt the healthiest, provided it has not been processed and has retained what occurs naturally.
„The healthiest salt for people comes from the sea, but only if it has not undergone any processing and is therefore as it occurs in nature. When people start trying to improve on nature, they always spoil something. And they do spoil it, because sea salt is subjected to so-called refining, or cleaning out everything it contains so that only pure sodium chloride remains.”Najzdrowsza dla człowieka sól pochodzi z morza, ale jest to tylko taka sól, której nie poddano jakiemukolwiek przetwarzaniu, a więc taka, jaka występuje w naturze. Kiedy człowiek zaczyna poprawiać naturę to zawsze coś zepsuje. No i psuje, ponieważ sól morską poddaje się tak zwanej rafinacji, czyli oczyszczaniu ze wszystkiego co tylko w tej soli się znajdowało, tak aby pozostał czysty chlorek sodu.
Jerzy Zięba
According to Jerzy Zięba, refining removes minerals and other substances from salt that he considers important for health.
„These substances are found in natural sea salt, but during refining they are thrown away, and we, the customers, are given just one substance: sodium chloride! That is why this kind of salt does not serve its purpose, and eating it can indeed be harmful to people.”Tego rodzaju substancje znajdują się właśnie w naturalnej soli morskiej, ale w procesie rafinacji te substancje wyrzucono na śmietnik, a nam, klientom, podano tylko jedną substancję, którą jest chlorek sodu! Dlatego właśnie tego typu sól nie spełnia swojej roli i rzeczywiście jej spożycie może być dla człowieka szkodliwe.
Henryk Różański
Henryk Różański considers seasonings containing sea salt or unrefined salts rich in elements to have considerable culinary and health value.
„Salt stimulates saliva production and increases the sensitivity of taste receptors. Seasonings containing sea salt and unrefined salts with a high content of bioelements (micro- and ultraelements, such as fluorine, manganese, and molybdenum) have considerable culinary and health value.”Sól pobudza wydzielanie śliny i zwiększa wrażliwość receptorów smaku. Dużą wartość smakowo-zdrowotną mają przyprawy zawierające sól morską oraz sole nieoczyszczane z dużą domieszką biopierwiastków (mikro- i utraelementów, np. fluoru, manganu, molibdenu).
Jerzy Zięba
Jerzy Zięba describes white table salt as almost pure sodium chloride and considers it harmful to the body.
„The salt we buy at the supermarket, that lovely, bright white salt, is basically just sodium chloride. It is useless and even harmful to the human body. The question will immediately arise: what about so-called iodized salt? The answer: nothing—it's the same thing.”Sól, którą kupujemy w supermarkecie, ta śliczna, bielutka, to właściwie tylko sam chlorek sodu. Jest ona bezużyteczna i wręcz dla organizmu człowieka szkodliwa. Natychmiast padnie pytanie: a co z tak zwaną solą jodowaną? Odpowiedź: a nic, bo jest to to samo.
Prof. Klaus F. Kopp
Prof. Klaus F. Kopp distinguishes table salt from sodium bicarbonate and writes that salt can be harmful in certain situations.
„NaCl = Salt may indeed be harmful or “bad” in certain situations.
Sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO3, is the natural physiological buffer in the mammalian organism, and if it is substituted at normal concentrations it may be considered “good”. However, excessive intake of 100 grams of sodium bicarbonate is certainly not advisable and would require medical treatment.”NaCl = Salt may indeed be harmful or “bad” in certain situations.
Sodium Bicarbonate, NaHCO3, is the natural physiological buffer in the mammalian organism and and if it is substituted at normal concentrations it may be considered as “good”. However, the excessive intake of 100 Gram of Sodium Bicarbonate is certainly not advisable and would require medical treatment.
Jerzy Zięba
Jerzy Zięba believes that the right kind of salt is necessary for the body and criticizes low-salt diets.
„So, good, proper salt is essential for the human body to function normally. For this reason, all kinds of low-salt diets are harmful to people. The “salt phobia” spread by the media has led many people to boast that they hardly use any salt at all.”Tak więc dobra, właściwa sól jest produktem niezbędnym dla prawidłowego funkcjonowania organizmu człowieka. Z tego powodu właśnie wszelkiego rodzaju diety nisko solne są dla człowieka szkodliwe. Rozpowszechniana przez media „solofobia” spowodowała, że wiele osób chwali się tym, że soli właściwie wcale nie używa.
Prof. Klaus F. Kopp
Prof. Klaus F. Kopp warns against excessive salt intake, especially among people with heart or kidney disease or high blood pressure, and among pregnant women.
„This unfortunately makes confusion with other sodium salts, especially sodium bicarbonate, inevitable. But since no one should eat too much salt—not least people with heart or kidney disease or high blood pressure, and pregnant women—in other words, no one at all, desperate efforts are made to keep the total sodium content of mineral waters, various foods, or dietary products as low as possible and to remove or reduce it at considerable expense, so that no harm is done.”Dadurch ist die Verwechslung mit anderen Natrium-Salzen leider vor allem mit Natrium-Bikarbonat vorprogrammiert Da aber niemand zu viel Salz essen soll, schon gar nicht Herz-, Nieren- oder Hochdruck-Kranke, auch nicht Schwangere, d.h. gar niemand, - wird verzweifelt versucht, den gesamten Natrium-Gehalt von Mineralwässern oder verschiedenen Nahrungsmitteln oder Diätetika, so niedrig wie möglich zu halten und kostenaufwendig zu entfernen oder zu reduzieren, damit ja nur kein Schaden entsteht.
Perspectives and opinion materials
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Orthomolecular Medicine News Service Opinion material
„Our kids call it “water salt.” Dietary magnesium: Our children eat a plant-based diet that provides magnesium from many sources. We include organic vegetables such as carrots, baby spinach, and beet greens in our homemade, fresh, raw vegetable juice. They drink it 2 to 3 times per week.”Our kids call it "water salt." Dietary magnesium: Our children eat a plant-based diet which provides magnesium from many sources: We include organic vegetables like carrots, baby spinach, and beet greens in our homemade, fresh, raw veggie juice. They drink this 2 to 3 times per week.
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service Opinion material
„I attribute the calming of my heart rate (now 55–60 bpm) primarily to magnesium, potassium, taurine, and adequate salt intake, based on the recommendations of Brownstein, “Salt Your Way to Health” [6], and Dinicolantonio, “The Salt Fix” [7], and monitored by measuring sodium levels. My exercise and meditation sessions certainly also played a part. I did not take the beta blockers prescribed to relieve my heart “as part of heart failure therapy”. For most people, eating plenty of vegetables and fruits can provide enough potassium.”I attribute the calming of the heart rate (now 55 - 60 bpm) primarily to magnesium, potassium, taurine and an adequate salt intake, which I have based on the recommendations of Brownstein "Salt Your Way to Health" [6] and Dinicolantonio "The Salt Fix" [7], controlled by measuring the sodium level. My exercise and meditation sessions certainly also played a part. I did not take the beta blockers prescribed to relieve my heart "as part of heart failure therapy". For most individuals, eating plentiful servings of vegetables and fruits can provide adequate potassium.
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service Opinion material
„Two people died from poisoning by minerals not used as nutrients: one from a sodium salt and one from an iron salt or iron. On page 1139, the AAPCC report specifically states that the fatal iron case did not involve a nutritional supplement.”Two people died from non-nutritional mineral poisoning, one from a sodium salt and one from an iron salt or iron. On page 1139, the AAPCC report specifically indicates that the iron fatality was not from a nutritional supplement.
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