Himalayan Crystal Salt

[bwana]

Yes, yes, I am alwas a sucker for these things!

Bought a bottle at the Food and Wine Show last year. It is said to have the following health benefits -

- Improves skin, bone and joint health
- Balances body's PH level
- Balances blood pressure
- Restores electrolytes

I'm thinking these claims should be taken with a pinch of salt . . .

 

[DJ...]

It's a scam, peder. Originated by Peter Ferreira. Go google it. It's ordinary rock salt...

 

[blunomore]

Himalayan salt is not NaCl... its NaCl plus a few other salts...

The salts in the himalayan salt is the salt that is not in our normal diet...

The little natures choice packet says... "take one teaspoon solution in the morning first thing"

Although the himalayan salt doesn't taste like normal table salt oh and its got no iodine in it (unlike normal table salt)

The Himalayan Crystal salt is markedly less 'salty' in taste than our normal salt.

It's a scam, peder. Originated by Peter Ferreira. Go google it. It's ordinary rock salt...

How do you know that, just because this guys says it is a scam, it is indeed so?

The same way someone can make ludicrous claims, the same way someone can falsely debunk something.

 

[Peder]

It's a scam, peder. Originated by Peter Ferreira. Go google it. It's ordinary rock salt...

don't forget the world is flat not round...

ITS A SCAM!!!!

 

[DJ...]

Oh deary me. I'll let someone else bother with you, otherwise just google it. It is a well documented scam since the early 90s. And it has been debunked by scientists who have thoroughly tested it, which isn't a difficult task to do with salt - there is a reason it is not mainstream...

 

[Peder]

Oh deary me. I'll let someone else bother with you, otherwise just google it. It is a well documented scam since the early 90s. And it has been debunked by scientists who have thoroughly tested it, which isn't a difficult task to do with salt - there is a reason it is not mainstream...

yeah i think thats a good plan... but just because you don't want to see the picture i am not going to struggle with you...

I donno as of late i have been trusting scientists less and less, ESPECIALLY food scientists...

So i guess you don't eat meat because many scientists said meat is bad for your health?????????

 

[blunomore]

Oh deary me. I'll let someone else bother with you, otherwise just google it. It is a well documented scam since the early 90s. And it has been debunked by scientists who have thoroughly tested it, which isn't a difficult task to do with salt - there is a reason it is not mainstream...

You disagree with anything slightly off the beaten path merely out of principle. Skeptic

 

[DJ...]

No blu, I disagree with promoting a known scam. It's ordinary rock salt ffs - there's nothing special about it in the least little bit, apart from the price tag.

peder, you're comparing apples and lesbians now. I eat meat, however if Koos began marketing his Free State beef as some new wonder-meat with metaphysical properties, sold at hundreds of times the price of Jannie's beef produced from the same livestock and under the same conditions, of course I'm going to eat Jannie's instead.

Same applies here with the salt. Do yourself a favour and read up on it before wasting any more of your money. The minerals apart from NaCl found in Himalayan salt are found in trace amounts and are therefore not beneficial to us in the least little bit. This was stated by the producers of the salt themselves, Salt Works:

It is an All Natural salt that contains different
minerals than Sea Salt s. It is over 98% sodium chloride and the minerals
contained in the salts are only in trace amounts

In other words it is rock salt, that's all...

 

[DJ...]

Another thing: that pink salt that you're paying through your teeth for is actually used to salt the roads in Pakistan. They had to find a use for it after it became a food fad in the early 90s and then was promptly dropped from most menus after being revealed to be a scam and a fraud. I'd love for someone to point out where in the Himalayas these salt pans/mines are? Hmmm?

 

[Peder]

I will still not easily buy an iodated salt... would you drink iodine?

 

[alternate]

I will still not easily buy an iodated salt... would you drink iodine?

Your body does need small amounts of iodine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goitre

 

[Peder]

Your body does need small amounts of iodine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goitre

not the word SMALL!!

i doubt that small amounts of iodine are put into salt...

http://articlesofhealth.blogspot.com/2008/02/does-salt-cause-high-blood-pressure.html read here for a explanation on salt...

 

[sdd]

I was suckered into that too.

Does not work.

 

[DJ...]

I will still not easily buy an iodated salt... would you drink iodine?

Well the iodine is added in small amounts to counter iodine deficiency which causes mental retardation and a number of other ailments. In the small amounts contained in table salt, what are the proven risks that put you off it? It's added as a health benefit - or is there some conspiracy against every human being on earth?

Besides, all I am stating is that this himalayan bullschit is merely ordinary rock salt - so buy ordinary rock salt then and not the iodised stuff if it makes you feel better - and certainly don't buy the himalayan stuff as you're falling for a con every single time...

 

[blunomore]

Well the iodine is added in small amounts to counter iodine deficiency which causes mental retardation and a number of other ailments. In the small amounts contained in table salt, what are the proven risks that put you off it? It's added as a health benefit - or is there some conspiracy against every human being on earth?

Besides, all I am stating is that this himalayan bullschit is merely ordinary rock salt - so buy ordinary rock salt then and not the iodised stuff if it makes you feel better - and certainly don't buy the himalayan stuff as you're falling for a con every single time...

Why does it make you so angry? We all fall for scam of various types daily, yourself included.

 

[DJ...]

Why does it make you so angry?

Who says I'm angry? I'm far from it today...

 

[blunomore]

Who says I'm angry? I'm far from it today...

Your tone says otherwise.

 

[|tera|]

Women, pfffttt.. I know it's a scam deary, but I still want it!

 

[DJ...]

Your tone says otherwise.

Is this the first time that you've interacted with me on this forum or have you hit your head and forgotten how very little I care...?

 

[blunomore]

Is this the first time that you've interacted with me on this forum or have you hit your head and forgotten how very little I care...?

See what I mean about the mood?