Salt

[Chesterton]

Well' if you live to 150, they'll have to donate your body to science
Actually, they wouldn't need to put you in formaldehyde..you'd be well enough preserved already LOL

LOL, that's the ticket. It keeps organic material in good condition. I'm organic material. Ergo, it should keep me around a long time, right?

 

[canehdianhotstuff]

I avoid too much salt. I dont want high blood pressure. etc.

 

[tansy]

Same here, except I don't drink beer, and I don't eat salt by myself; but I even put salt on ice cream.

Salt on icecream! Very weird

 

[AV1611VET]

Salt on icecream! Very weird

As they say, you are what you eat ---

 

[tansy]

LOL, that's the ticket. It keeps organic material in good condition. I'm organic material. Ergo, it should keep me around a long time, right?

Kind of the same effect as mummifying, only you do it whilst you're still alive...a perfectly simple and cheap method..also saves removing all the bits and bobs through the nose.

 

[Hespera]

That's interesting, I never knew that..amazing what info comes out from an enquiry about salt lol.
Fermented fish sounds a bit yucky though..though I like soy sauce, but then as you say, there's no fish in it now.

Actually i prefer the fish sauce to soy sauce, and its always on the table.
Not at all yucky!

Vietnamese make the best, like "couple lovely pigeons on the earth'
brand. There's a picture of two white doves framing a picture of the earth, so the translation they use may not be quite what they intended. Still its what the label says.

The Romans were big on fish sauce too, but the early church some how decided that was bad, so Europeans stopped using it.

 

[shinbits]

I love salt. I put salt on pizza, in beer, on sweet melons like watermelon and cantaloupe. I put salt on salt (eat it by itself sometimes.) Am I weird, or does anyone else like salt that much?

(If you suddenly stop seeing my posts here, you'll know what happened. )

Lolz, I think you're just wierd. Salt on pizza??? Isn't pizza already salty?

And I've heard of people putting salt on watermelon. That's crazy to me. Why ruin the juicy sweetness of watermelon with the exact opposite flavor?

But hey, to each their. Some of the combinations I like are just plain wierd as well.

 

[jayem]

Good health also requires some potassium, calcium, a trace of magnesium, and iron (especially for menstruating women.) Not to mention the 8 essential amino acids (and a few others that are conditionally essential.) And the vitamins that the body can't synthesize. A good, balanced diet will supply all of these.

But it's true that in Stone and Bronze age times, diets were lacking and good nutrition was unreliable. One of the reasons why most people died in their 30s.

 

[Chesterton]

Lolz, I think you're just wierd.

Distinct possibility.

Why ruin the juicy sweetness of watermelon with the exact opposite flavor?

Maybe it's a Taoist ying/yang thing. Seeking perfection in balance, or uh, something.

 

[PhilosophicalBluster]

You wouldn't die from not knowing you need salt. If your body needs salt, you crave salty things, just as if your body needs carbohydrates and various other components to gain energy, you get hungry.

 

[PhilosophicalBluster]

Maybe it's a Taoist ying/yang thing. Seeking perfection in balance, or uh, something.

Salty popcorn + sugar = awesome.

 

[tansy]

You wouldn't die from not knowing you need salt. If your body needs salt, you crave salty things, just as if your body needs carbohydrates and various other components to gain energy, you get hungry.

Well, perhaps...it's just that I wasn't sure whether salty stuff would be available inland necessarily thousands of years ago..but it seems like it was.

 

[tansy]

The Romans were big on fish sauce too, but the early church some how decided that was bad, so Europeans stopped using it.

Well, I have to admit, the church hasn't always been a force for good
I wonder why they did decide fish sauce was bad?

 

[tansy]

Good health also requires some potassium, calcium, a trace of magnesium, and iron (especially for menstruating women.) Not to mention the 8 essential amino acids (and a few others that are conditionally essential.) And the vitamins that the body can't synthesize. A good, balanced diet will supply all of these.

But it's true that in Stone and Bronze age times, diets were lacking and good nutrition was unreliable. One of the reasons why most people died in their 30s.

Actually, it's amazing we can move with all the metal and stuff we've got clanking around inside us..I mean we also need zinc and copper and goodness knows what else.
Imagine if our arteries were copper tubing and our bones made of iron..and so forth lol.

 

[shinbits]

You wouldn't die from not knowing you need salt. If your body needs salt, you crave salty things, just as if your body needs carbohydrates and various other components to gain energy, you get hungry.

That's not true. Your body doesn't automatically know what foods to eat to get it's nutrients, nor does your brain keep a record of which foods give what nutrients. If it could, people would crave vegetables and fruit a whole lot more.

 

[Hespera]

Actually, it's amazing we can move with all the metal and stuff we've got clanking around inside us..I mean we also need zinc and copper and goodness knows what else.
Imagine if our arteries were copper tubing and our bones made of iron..and so forth lol.

That would be bad! You know the feeling you get chomping on tinfoil ? If you have a couple fillings in your teeth? You'd get an electric current between the copper and iron and...ooohhh... bad design!!

 

[tansy]

That's not true. Your body doesn't automatically know what foods to eat to get it's nutrients, nor does your brain keep a record of which foods give what nutrients. If it could, people would crave vegetables and fruit a whole lot more.

Yes, that's a good point..my diet at college wasn't paricularly good...though, now I don't like eating too much of the wrong things.

 

[tansy]

That would be bad! You know the feeling you get chomping on tinfoil ? If you have a couple fillings in your teeth? You'd get an electric current between the copper and iron and...ooohhh... bad design!!

Is that what causes that with tinfoil and fillings..an electrical current? I always wondered why that happened.

You know this thread about salt is way more interesting, informative and entertaining than I realised it would be

 

[Hespera]

Is that what causes that with tinfoil and fillings..an electrical current? I always wondered why that happened.

You know this thread about salt is way more interesting, informative and entertaining than I realised it would be

Any two different metals and an electrolyte will produce an electrical current. Like those potato clocks. Or chomping tinfoil.

Ever think also how salt is made of a violently reactive metal and a deadly poison green gas? I will let someone else demonstrate.......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx5JJWI2aaw

and when its done you have plain old table salt.

I wonder what it was like in the old days when those elements first got together on earth to produce the massive amounts of salt we have now.

 

[Meshach]

I dont know if this has anything to do with "salt", and I dont even know if it is true. But in reading this thread I recalled what someone said to me.
Cant remember exactly but he said something about the dead soldiers who died at war. He said that it was common experience that a body from North America would take longer to decompose than bodies from other countries. Just wondering if it is true? and would it have anything to do with maybe an increased salt intake by North Americans?