Very good statistics! My daughter in law's mom, is actually from the province of Loja, Ecuador. When I asked my daughter in law about the claims of longevity..... she replied..... yes..... many people lied about their age........ exaggerated their age when the studies were being done..... in order to get more attention and more money but........ it is still true that very old people in this area can still work in the fields even at an advanced age. This phenomena does not occur merely in the one area of Vilcabamba, Ecuador but..... actually happens in about ten major locations all over the world..... and sure enough..... in each area there is a high number of trace minerals in both the water as well as in the soil. I can purchase pink Himalayan salt at Dollarama now for about two dollars............ so it is easy to add a good source of trace minerals to our diet at this time. http://www.kingmaker.net/trustme.html
Also.... they cannot PROVE.... that they are over one hundred years of age......because it is a poor community and birth records are not up to the standard that would be accepted by "Dr. Richard Mazess of the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Dr. Sylvia Forman of the University of California, Berkeley."....... .... but yes.... exaggeration by some of the people there..... certainly muddied the water. But the low rate of the major North American illnesses in that community......… that corresponds with low rates of certain illnesses in other parts of the world where conditions are similar....... is almost certainly eventually going to be known to be far far far far more important that ninety percent of big Pharma sales people would want us to realize.
The trace mineral that makes Himalayan salt pink is hematite. Which is another name for rust. You can get rust cheaper.
You might want to read this..... http://www.livestrong.com/article/534033-what-are-the-84-minerals-in-himalayan-salt/ What Are the 84 Minerals in Himalayan Salt?
Make sure you get the stuff from China, Nepal Myanmar, Pakistan, Bhutan, Afghanistan, or India! http://www.collective-evolution.com...o-your-body-when-you-eat-pink-himalayan-salt/
Well.... at least the word "purest" simply means most pure..... not completely pure....... so I think the claim about Himalayan salt being purest... could well be valid....
If those "contaminants" can begin to shift my health away from the North American norm...... toward the Vilcabamba, Ecuador norm..... or toward the Tibet mountain region norm...... then I want lots of those type of "contaminants?!"
We are asking which is more pure. Mixing rust into your salt won't make you healthier. But if you want to believe in fairy dust or just like pink salt, there are cheaper ways to indulge.
I particularly like the claim that if you eat this salt you are actually getting less salt in your diet because the particles are larger. That should provide a pretty good clue as to the intelligence of whoever is peddling that quack nonsense. And then of course there is the almost unbelievably moronic quote: " Another great thing about this salt is that, because of its unique cellular structure, it stores vibrational energy " Not to be overly skeptical but is somebody paying you to keep posting this type of quack nonsense?
I had bleeding ulcers since I was four years old. By the time I was fourteen I had rheumatoid arthritis. This made me highly motivated to research alternative solutions to medical conditions because I did not like the side effects of the cortisone that I took while in hospital for two weeks back in 1973. Combine that with the question posed to near death experiencers along the line of "What did you do with your life that you can show me?" and voila....... you have yourself a highly motivated internet poster who gets into all kinds of subjects hoping that somebody will listen. I feel better now at 58, in some important ways, than I did at thirty. (I just got back from taking two teaspoons of MSM, which I might have forgotten to take today if it were not for this discussion). I am so glad that I knew enough about MSM to be able to tell my daughter's tutor that she could up her dosage from around 2000 mgms to ten thousand mgms per day with essentially no negative side effects, (other than that of detoxification), based on my own experience. She knew what MSM was, she knew it worked, she was already taking 2000 mgms daily but she did not know that she could safely take such a high dose for natural pain relief, but with her several fractures from osteoporosis it seemed like the safest way for her to get relatively side effect free pain relief based on any articles that I had read by physicians. I personally often take ten thousand mgms of MSM on days when lower back pain is fairly serious or if I feel a cold or flu coming on. I worked at forestry for over twenty years. I did not lift all that wood properly........ and I am paying some consequences. All that power saw exhaust that I inhaled could be another valid reason for my terrible spelling and grammar.
Pure, as in natural, salt has trace minerals. Refined salt would be closer to pure sodium chloride. Most natural (unrefined) salts are about 85 percent sodium chloride. Refined salt is in the high 90's, usually with iodine being the remainder.
I use himalayan pink salt. It actually tastes better than regular table salt. I also take msm (coarse flakes) and diatomaceous earth. I buy the Red Lake diatomaceous earth. It's comprised of 65 percent diatomaceous earth and 35 percent calcium bentonite. Calcium bentonite is known as one of the edible clays and is chock full of minerals. I also take organic apple cider vinegar (with the 'mother') every day. That's it. No over the counter or prescription medicines. I'm 60 years old and last saw a Dr sometime back in the early 90's. Btw, on being properly mineralized: it's been said that minerals are what allows vitamins to be properly absorbed.
I did not say that. I said table salt was in the high 90's percent-wise sodium chloride. It's actually around 98 percent, with the remainder being anti-caking agents and iodine.
The quantity I've heard quoted is 400 micro-grams iodine per teaspoon. Iodine is volatile at room temperature, it's likely the stuff on your shelf has less.
I will definitely make it a point to use at least some iodinated salt in my diet and not go one hundred percent pink Himalayan.