Monday, July 25, 2011

I love salty food.

It's time to end the war on salt.

All of my life I loved salty food. Never sweets.
I salt my food before I taste it. For me tasty means salty.
If food is salty enough it is tasty.
My friends, their parents all looked at me with scorn watching me adding salt to soup, salad, meal. I like buckwheat with salt, not sugar. I like salty rice and not a rice pudding. I hated some dishes that my grandmother, a great culinar, used to cook in paricilar sweet and sour beef .
When I order duck in french restaurant and I looove duck, I always ask if it is sweet, and if it is I order other meal.
When approached by somebody at the table that I should cut my salt intake, I usually ask: why?
Lay people and doctors alike stated to me that it is well known fact that salt in not good for me.
My answer was that I do not see why salt would be bad for me if my body has impecable mechanism for controlling the salt content of my body.
If I crave salt, or if I like salty food doesn this mean that my body needs salt.
Just like when you want to drink your body needs some water.
Sodium content of the body is the most basic constant in the body, it is the same like in the water of Pre Cambrian ocean where life began - 0.9 percent.
Can you imagine how happy I was when I read the following article.

It's time to end a war on salt.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=its-time-to-end-the-war-on-salt

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