Show Do We Eat Too boo T z h St S lt OT a n few fe people are the I TOT NOT habit of or using salt at nt the table They believe that too much snit salt la Is eaten Common salt the chemical name of or which Is 15 chloride of or sodium has been used so 50 ton long lone by civilized man that most mOlt individuals Inell- Inell are arc led Jed to believe belle Us its use indispensable indis to the human buman economy conomy This Is nn an erroneous belief beller n as every in fo individual can decide for himself It Is hi a n wrong Inference which leads people pee peo eo- eo plo pIc to believe that because the deer likes liked the tho salt BOlt lIc lick or tb the redman likes fire water either cipher of or these substances Is natural or necessary to the human body It Is a 4 fact that there nr are aro numbers of ot people who never use uso salt Dalt The North American Indian whom the tho hand of or civilization bas has not made made- unnatural unnatural ural oral does docs not eat cat at salt and many of or tho p peoples ples of ot tho more northern parts of ot Europe Europa and America as well welt as Central Africa have huo no use for salt An Au Individual Ut need go o no further than his hit own experience to learn that salt snit Is wholly unnecessary uy for or the human buman body An appetite for It may be developed to such cuch an nD extent that the tho victim mil may well be called a 11 salt salt eater Tho physiological effect of or salt Bait Is that otan ot of otan an Irritant upon till nil the mucous membranes of ot the tho body bodt producing prod a n watery discharge This Is 15 the tho purpose for tor which salt snit l Is IR proscribed pro pre scribed d by physicians I as a medicine to Irritate or cleanse by the tho effect of ot this Irritation which is 19 oDI only only- to 10 be temporary la In character It is 13 an Interesting fact tact that salt and cane sugar have practically the same effect as ns nn on Irritant on the tho human bumon organism Anyone cnn can easily provo prove the truth of ot this assertion by snuffing a Ii solution of ot saltor salt saltor or sugar and water up the tho nostrils the profuse discharge which follows is proof of or orthe the irritant effect of or either cither upon the mucous mu m membrane of ot tho the nose DOSe What applies to th the tho nose nOe no c applies equally well to the stomach or any ony other othor organ of or the tho body So that the effect of or unit salt when used In excessive quantities Is to produce catarrh of or the tho mucous membranes of ot tho the body and this In time becomes chronic There are nrc other minor ailments for lor which tho the excessive use of salt is 19 notably bly notably eczema and other rashes of ot the skin manifesting themselves as 18 pimples and bolls boils Frequently the tho th tenderness of ot tho the edges ed of ot tho nose Dose both within and without the nostrils Is b tho the result of ot tho the excessive t use of ot salt And again the may bo be affected from rom the tho same samo cause The results of ot the excessive use of ot are to bo be observed also In what Is keown known as scurvy Y The ill effects of or salt are aio especially II ap apparent p- p parent patent upon the kidneys The dropsy or Brig ht's disease of the kidneys and certain forms farm of ot heart henrt disease ore are In many in ln instances tD stances caused wholly or lu iu part port by bj the use of or salt lt 1 This explains explain ho how a R milk diet in kidney y diseases es so rapidly improves the condition of or the patient the tho salt which has hils been deposited In the tho tissues Is la washed out as asIt asit 9 It were by the milk The saws la Le I line 1111 rue of ot the tho grape cure the Che Juice fruit of or the grape alto alro washes out ho Iho salt from the tissues Obviously the real cure consists In the foci fact that t no salt enters enten thc tl system through the tho diet With the tho th cause of ot trouble removed the tore uro readily follows follow The opinion that salt nit i. i In 11 a l aid to digestion U 14 absolutely foundation and there con oan be no injection that the excessive and con COD continuous continuous use udo of or suit salt produces produce a n host bost of diseases In the natural foods there la Is quite a 1 sufficient supply of or what Is called the inorganic in organic units snits without any arU artificial addition add addi tion of or chloride of or sodium being ne for tor mans inana wants It to be overlooked over o looked b by many writers that salt is h l but Iut butone ut one of or u a number lumber of or the inorganic e halts bolts the phosphates I 6 dull cud many others being almost woolly ignored The l pates nt's particularly paa aro are to bo be reckoned d of or great Kroat Importance It is not Dot salt Bait alone but tho combination of or the various salts salt which gives value to tho le Jr inorganic salts snits in Ie food 1 b hero ro u perfectly natural diet forms the tho larger part of ot the meal as 5 s it should tb the use of ot 1 salt Ut t Is wholly 11 unnecessary it will wilt willbe 1 be remembered that the pr present met method bod of ot cooking vegetables removed or destroys the le cooking recta hence from the tho th stand standpoint point of 01 nutrition vegetables should to lo eaten raw ra or OP If It should bo be baked It Is recognized a rc ta fact t that mat under any clr clr- i the the- amount of or salt for tor mau man l houll sot not a exceed Ic vend d to thirty grama dally as IS any S tAi tas to bo be excreted t ll l through the kidneys t ana una skin A little HUll alt i-alt U Y not bo be out of or place but anything any nor thing b beyond one quarter one or hall half half le tea tea- o f per day Is Is s an Injurious for g an Individual dV IU Snit with a great grent moD many people becomes u habit and unquestionably gives clan to serious disturbances of or health which are arc seldom If Ir ever eer ascribed to catIng eatIng eat cat Ing salt sAll In c excess Unquestionably thele the tho le n salt snit one oue vats eats the better tetter fur for lh the lad indi vidual |