Water and Salt...What you need to know!!!

Take Water Seriously!

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Here are some Water Intake Facts

Our Health is Truly Dependent on the Quality and Quantity of the Water We Drink

·         Your muscles that move your body are 75% water

·         Your blood that transport nutrients is 82% water

·         Your lungs that provide your oxygen are 90% water

·         Your brain, the control center of your body, is 76% water

·         Even your bones are 25% water

From nerve impulses that travel around the body, to the transport of oxygen and nutrients throughout the system, water plays an integral role. It is vital that you drink plenty of water. Water not only provides you with nutrition, but it removes toxins. Water is your body's principal chemical component. 

Lack of water can lead to dehydration, a condition that occurs when you do not have enough water in your body to carry out normal functions. When the body gets low on fluid, every process will likely be compromised.

Dehydration can cause a diverse array of symptoms including:

·         Headache

·         Fatigue

·         Muscle cramps

·         Constipation

How Much Water Do You Need To Drink, and How Often?

A Few Simple Calculations to Assure You are Getting Enough Water/Salt Each Day

To better determine how much water you need each day, divide your body weight in half. The answer is the approximate number of water ounces you should drink daily. You should drink half of your body weight in ounces.

For me it’s about 55-60 oz min…I usually drink 4 liters. I train hard so I need to ensure I am drinking enough

Here are some Salt Intake Facts
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How Much Salt and How Do I Use It?

Maintain the Proper pH Level for Your Body by Balancing Your Salt/Water Intake

¼ tsp. per quart of water (4 cups) you drink daily. You can put the ¼ tsp. of sea salt in your water, or season your food with it, as it is suggested

What is important is that you get the proper balance throughout the day. You can't take all your salt in just two times a day, no more than you could do all your breathing in only two times a day. You cannot drink half of your water in one sitting and then the rest later that day and expect to be fully hydrated.

What is a Good Sea Salt?

Celtic Sea Salt

Good Celtic Sea Salt is totally unprocessed, kosher and hand harvested. It is dried by the sun and the wind, retaining the ocean’s moisture and locking in a vast array of vital trace elements. It is a coarse, moist salt that gets a light grey hue from the pure clay sole it is harvested from. There is no comparison, in taste or in health effects, between mineral-rich Celtic Sea Salt and chemically-treated iodized salts. This Unprocessed salt has a rustic old-world flavor that is more assertive than other varieties.

It is Important to be Sure You Are Getting the Right Kind of Salt

Good quality of sea salt contains more than 80 trace minerals. Be careful when buying sea salt or Celtic Sea Salt. If it does not list minerals on the back, the odds are that you have just bought expensive, prettier packaged table salt. All salt came from the sea at one point. So it is legal for anyone to label their low grade salt as sea salt. Good Celtic Sea Salt is NOT white or dry.

Unrefined sea salt is what you should look for.

It contains 98.0 % NaCl (sodium-chloride) and up to 2.0% other minerals (salts):

·         Epsom salts and other Magnesium salts

·         Calcium salts

·         Potassium (Kalium) salts

·         Manganese salts

·         Phosphorus salts

·         Iodine salts

Altogether, real unprocessed salt contains over 100 minerals composed of 80 chemical elements.

The composition of crystals of ocean salt is so complicated that no laboratory in the world can produce it from its basic 80 chemical elements -- nature is still a better chemist than people.

This salt has been used since beginning of life, by ocean plants, by animals and by human beings.

At all cost avoid Refined salt (Table Salt), which is 99.9% (sodium-chloride). It almost always contains additives, like 0.01% of potassium-iodide (added to the salt to avoid iodine deficiency disease of thyroid gland), sugar (added to stabilize iodine, and as an anti-caking chemical), aluminum silicate. FAKE!

But.....Isn't Salt Bad for You?

All the medical and scientific studies condemning table salt would appear to be justified, except for the fact that these studies examined only refined white salt, a biologically damaging, completely unnatural, and chemical substance to say the least.

In the industrial refining process, as many as 82 trace minerals and essential macro-nutrients are  removed on purpose, leaving only a single compound made of sodium and chloride. Can you believe it?

I hope this makes sense and clarifies some misconceptions about Salt the real deal and not the chemical crap sold in stores.

Thank you for reading.... Sweeteners are on my next To Do list...

Grace