Soldato
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Don't know really. I'm used to salting at the table from being at home but i add some when cooking so i feel like a chef.
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Fair point re: perspiration, but I'd guess that the recommended salt intake takes into account the recommended amount of exercise, since it's recommended. I retract the statement about not burning off salt though.
Bro:
Haircut's/Oli's point regarding perspiration is a fair cop, but I'm afraid that your belief that you need to add salt to non-processed food remains untrue!
How? Not all unprocessed diets, some fresh diets. I even listed sodium content of most common food sources.
So come on show me how much salt you think we need for normal functioning and how much you would get in a "healthy" non processed western diet.
It's clear I'm not talking about all diets and clarified it many times. So far you have assumed I'm talking about something else and have shown nothing to disprove that in some diets you will not meat the minimum salt requirements.
Also not to unprocessed foods. Adding to totally Unprocessed diets which are extremely low in salt. Where all food consumed is non processed and doesn't include things like shellfish which are high in salt, again I've said all this before.
So try again.
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I've gotta be honest chief, I have trouble understanding your posts sometimes. Added to this, you've got a rather frustrating habit of editing your posts to completely change them about 5 minutes after you initially post them.
Here's how this has gone down as I've understood it:
I made a statement at the end of my first post saying that if you're adding salt to food, you're doing it purely for taste. You disagreed, saying that unless you're eating processed food, you need to add salt in order to meet your daily need. I said that was nonsense, you disagreed. Then there was some repetition and here we are.
I've deliberately avoided trying to get into a disagreement with you on here after the last one we had, because I think you'll argue about anything for as long as it takes until the other person gives up, and I consider it to be a massive waste of time.
It feels like I'm arguing with someone about the moon being made of cheese, and I know that even if I took them there to see that it wasn't they still wouldn't admit they're wrong.
I edit most of the time for grammar and spelling, sometime to add more points. Hardly ever to change a posts meaning.
And yes that's how it started but I think I clarified my point that it wasn't all diets but certain diets based on fresh food and didn't include things like shellfish and other high salt content natuak food.
You can do just as much damage having to little salt as you can having to much.
And yes that's how it started but I think I clarified my point that it wasn't all diets but certain diets based on fresh food and didn't include things like shellfish and other high salt content natuak food.
You can do just as much damage having to little salt as you can having to much.
Because the cooking process itself will invariably alter the concentration and balance of flavours, thus necessitating constant tasting and re-seasoning of a dish?
And as the old adage goes, you can always add but you can't take away.
I've got to be honest with you here, your posting style has become increasingly erratic as of late. I've read through all the posts in this thread and some of the points you raise make little to no sense whatsoever, which is a shame as you seem to generally be making a good point in amidst the occasional bit of gibberish.
Case in point would be your comment about salt licks - I just can't follow why you've brought that up or what it relates to, but the rest of your post makes some sort of sense!
If you're having to go back to edit posts after you've hit Submit, could you not try pressing the Preview button instead?
Like a few others in this thread, I also go with the approach of using as much salt as I find necessary in order to make my food taste the way I want it to.
On balance I probably use too much, if we're going along with those oft-quoted and much misunderstood guidelines, but I think I generally have a well-balanced diet and my sodium intake isnt anything to get worried about.