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Skybird · 11-21-20, 04:50 AM

Historically, salt had a dominant role as trading good. Wars were fought over it. It was traded as something extremely precious. Treaties were sealed with it, as gifts. And it was consumed in doses 20-50 times higher than what they tell us we should not exceed today. Modern civilizational deseases were unknown.

Could that have been due to too much salt then? Or isn't it more likely that it was due to soft drinks and frozen pizza with surrogate cheese and candy bars not having been invented? Or think of the gatorade culut in the past. One half of the sugar, the glucose, was burnt off mayb ein exercise, but the other half, the fructose, was stored in the liver, helping to get non-alcoholic fatty liver.

Its not the salt. Its what you eat it with. Starch. Wrong fats. Highly glycaemic stuff, triggering a persisting insuline reaction. Snacking all the time. Some of what we consider healthy diet is like drinking alcohol in order to get clean of alcoholism.

11-21-20, 04:50 AM	#18
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,728 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Historically, salt had a dominant role as trading good. Wars were fought over it. It was traded as something extremely precious. Treaties were sealed with it, as gifts. And it was consumed in doses 20-50 times higher than what they tell us we should not exceed today. Modern civilizational deseases were unknown. Could that have been due to too much salt then? Or isn't it more likely that it was due to soft drinks and frozen pizza with surrogate cheese and candy bars not having been invented? Or think of the gatorade culut in the past. One half of the sugar, the glucose, was burnt off mayb ein exercise, but the other half, the fructose, was stored in the liver, helping to get non-alcoholic fatty liver. Its not the salt. Its what you eat it with. Starch. Wrong fats. Highly glycaemic stuff, triggering a persisting insuline reaction. Snacking all the time. Some of what we consider healthy diet is like drinking alcohol in order to get clean of alcoholism. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert. Last edited by Skybird; 11-21-20 at 09:22 AM.