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 Potassium and sodium salt.
During the earth history and the development of life the amount of potassium in seawater was high and has been decreasing steadily over the last 3 million years and the sodium content on the rise at the same time. All living cells need potassium on a continuous basis to function and if a shortage developed you feels you have an irresistible urge that must be fulfilled. Unfortunately the human tongue is unable to distinguishing potassium salt or sodium: both taste salty. In equal amounts, potassium is up to 8 times saltier than sodium. Almost any craving for salt in our dietary times of heavily salted, with sodium chloride, home-cooking, restaurant meals, and preserved foods is a strong indication of potassium deficiency. Salt (Sodium)was once an important factor in the development of national economies. Being used for its ability to preserve food. It freed communities from a dependency on the seasonal availability of food. Facilitating long distance travel. The human evolutionary assumption was that there would be plenty of potassium available in our environment and live food diets. This is in contrast to sodium which was not as abundantly available at that time, but also an essential but we have a very rigorous sodium conservation mechanism present. If you can not get sufficient Potassium your body will start to consume more food and prefer food with a high salt (sodium) content. To much sodium however can harm your health, but for Potassium there are no known max uptake limits. TOHP studies, over 3000 people with normal blood pressure either reduced their salt intake of sodium salts by up to 2.6 gram a day or made no dietary changes for a period of 36 month on average. After a 15-year follow up, those who had reduced their intake of sodium salts had a 30 per cent lower incidence of heart attack and strokes. Separate studies which focus on people with high blood pressure, a cut in sodium salt intake decreases risk of dying from cardiovascular disease by one-fifth over a 10-year period. Potassium and sodium salt are related and can both be used and replace each other in many respects. Potassium is up to 8 times saltier than sodium, there is no shortage of potassium and a logical step would have been to replace sodium salt by potassium salts.  Because of a shortage in Potassium salt your body will develop a craving (irresistible urge that must be fulfilled) and LEAD to an increase consumption of food. To maintain this craving the food should contain sodium salts and not potassium, otherwise the craving will disappear and be bad for business. The decision to keep sodium salt on the shelves is a political one and flawed. (Corrupt) Seaweed is rich in Potassium. Try or use a powdered seaweed (almost any seaweed, although the kelps tend to have more potassium than other seaweeds) up to 10 grams daily until symptoms resolve. In fact the above applies to many of the other minerals and trace elements, were a shortage will lead to craving for food. Try feeding the nerves and muscles their essential mineral foods: potassium, sodium, calcium and magnesium The last three, are abundant present in all seaweeds: sodium, 2-4%, calcium 0.5-1.0%, magnesium 0.2-1.0%. In addition to optimal nerve and muscle functioning, these four elements are important in transporting many substances along the intercellular network. Similar to potassium salts our bodies have no innate conservation mechanism for water.  Craving for Food or overeatingA Publication online in Nature. Neuroscience, scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in Florida did fed rats a high-fat, high-calorie treats -- bacon, sausage, cheesecake and so on -- and watched the rodents bulk out dramatically.The junk-food rats gobbled down twice as many calories as "the control" rodents fed on a more balanced diet. "When they removed the junk food and tried to put them on a nutritious diet -- what was called the 'salad bar option' -- they simply refused to eat," said Paul Kenny, an associate professor. "The change in their diet preference was so great that they basically starved themselves for two weeks after they were cut off from junk food."Kenny and graduate student Paul Johnson focussed on a docking point, or receptor, on the surface of neurons that binds to a "feel-good" brain chemical called dopamine.Dopamine is released by pleasurable experiences such as sex, food and narcotics."These findings confirm what we and many others have suspected, that overconsumption of highly pleasurable food triggers addiction-like, neuroadaptive responses in brain reward circuitries, driving the development of compulsive eating," says Kenny.The research, based on lab animals, bolsters long-standing suspicions that addiction to pleasure stems from overstimulus of a key reward mechanism in the brain, its authors say. "Common mechanisms may therefore underlie obesity and drug addiction." The research has yet to be conducted among humans. Arsenic substances in seaweed. Arsenic is a substance which is abundantly present on earth. The an organic form highly toxic but argeno sugars for example regarded as non toxic. Nature has many ways to neutralize and even turn less desired properties in benefits. Arsenic comes in all seafood, shellfish, fish and other sea creatures.Rice grown in Arkansas and Louisiana has 30 ppm arsenic; California rice has 15ppm.To ban arsenic is to ban food. Inorganic arsenic must be seen as different from organic types like arsenics sugars.However it is popular to use the arsenic sugars present in seaweed to get control or ban the use of seaweed all together. Seaweeds are not “contaminated” with arsenic. All seaweeds contain arsenic; they deliberately accumulate arsenic up to 10,000 times the concentrations of arsenic in the seawater in which they are growing. Seaweeds contain an average of 30 parts per million arsenic/ dry weight. If the EEC in Brussels had it there way, seaweed would be banned by now, the producers and users arrested and jailed. There problem the fact that the Chinese and Japanese people are great users of seaweed. Japanese scientists are quick to point out that “if seaweed-sourced arsenic were a real problem, most Japanese would have either chronic or acute arsenic poisoning very early in life” and would display foreshortened life spans. Instead, Japanese enjoy the longest human health spans, longest human life spans, and eat the most seaweed per capita in the world. Another major obstacle the amount of seaweed around. The first chain in the food cycle and the total amount of seaweed in the sea and oceans is larger than all plants, trees and animals together. Without the seaweed and algae the oceans would be dead, the oxygen content of the air more than halved and the sea reduced/turned in to a sewerage system. No Entlosung for seaweed possible. Idiocracy is never far away; when humans discovered the bacteria we did start to cook everything, the anti-biotic we were going to kill al bacteria, a disease free world, did know a little bit more about nutrients and use, the food to be replaced by a pill, leading to over regulation. Painful however that that an undemocratic institute in Brussels, at the hart of the European democracies, the birthplace of an idiocracy, a gigantic bureaucratic institution, obese from its beginning, left to attack nature. Nature is very important to most of us, having a spiritual dimension as well. Before fleeing Germany as World War II approached, Einstein explained his concept of Nature as a kind of religion: Einstein"Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious."The basics of the European traditions is to work with nature and not against it, no restrictions to be placed on access to nature and there products. In fact a basic right. Now the bureaucratic in Brussels & Strasbourg trying to limiting the access to nature/products in a stealth way (restrictions, rules and regulations) the question about the value and longevity of these institution have to be asked? For our children sake we should dissemble these institutions and replace them with a much leaner, democratic and flexible structure. At the hart of these institution the right to be different and respect, respect for nature & diversity, and protecting of individual freedom, development. End to nearly all the restrictions, rules and regulations as draw-up and introduced today. This interference in every aspect of daily life stopped and should be left to the people/communities involved. Rule by consent and not power. (implementing). A man made/created disaster and more casualities and fatalities than in any war ever fought.Food and politics.by Marion NestleAs early as the 1950s, cardiologists recommended dietary guidelines for prevention of coronary heart disease. Decades later, their advice still holds: Consume most daily energy from fruit, vegetables and grains (plant foods); less energy from meat and dairy foods (animal foods); and even less from processed foods high in fat, sugars and salt, and relatively depleted in essential nutrients (junk foods). Since then, dozens of domestic and international governmental and professional committees have reconfirmed the value of these recommendations for prevention of diet-related diseases in general, but to no avail. Such diseases remain leading causes of worldwide death and disability, in part because dietary advice is more easily dispensed than followed. Because of entrenched institutional barriers, particularly food industry pressures, neither clinicians nor patients get much help from official sources of this advice.Because food choices influence and are influenced by economic, social and political institutions, it is difficult -- if not impossible -- to alter individual dietary behaviour without also improving the economic, social and political environment within which individuals make food choices.Reality and sandwich.Publication as published by: Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University.She also holds appointments as Professor of Sociology at NYU and Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell. From 1986-88, she was senior nutrition policy advisor in the Department of Health and Human Services and managing editor of the 1988 Surgeon General’s Report on Nutrition and Health
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World Health Organization, 1990
Comparisons of population groups have demonstrated a close and consistent relationship between the adoption of the affluent diet (Northern European and U.S. general populations) and the emergence of a range of chronic, noninfectious diseases, such as coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, various cancers, diabetes mellitus, gallstones, dental caries (cavities), gastrointestinal disorders, and various bone and joint diseases .
The balance. (Nature)
Ill health can be brought about by an imbalance of nutrients, producing either an excess or deficiency which in turn affects body functioning in a cumulative manner. We should garded against any distortion of the Natural balance. We all need sodium but in limited amount, the use of to much sodium leads to health risks. Like we do known no the Potassium content in the sea has been on the decrease and sodium on the increase. There is no shortage of potassium of on earth. Why not use potassium instead of sodium. Both are salt and in a number of way interchangeable, because potassium is more expensive and sodium cost nothing. In addition, people who have a shortage of potasium are bigger consummers and can easily be lured and controlled. The world in which money and greed are dominantThe food processing industry is a major part of modern economy, and as such it is influential in political decisions (e.g. nutritional recommendations, agricultural subsidising). In any known profit-driven economy, health considerations are hardly a priority. Distorting the balance benifitial to the food industry, selling more food, supplements and even medicine. People who are born healthy have the potential to grow very old in good health. Never in the history of mankind have there been so many people sick at the same time, the health system in near collapse due to demand, doctors deciding over life and dead on a daily basis.
Climate change.
An editorial published in both the Lancet and British Medical Journal (BMJ) claims that taking steps to cut the world's carbon emissions, such as eating less meat and switching to cleaner energy, will have benefits for people's health. The measures needed to combat climate change coincide with those needed to ensure a healthier population and reduce the burden on health services. A low carbon economy will mean less pollution. A low carbon diet - especially eating less meat - and more exercise will mean less cancer, obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
New, the linkage between political decision making and general health of the population by doctors and is important for other reasons as well. Cancer, obesity, diabetes and heart disease and linked in the western (modern world) with a compromised immune function; primarily result from poor lifestyle choices and the kinds of environmental and psychological stress factors now dominant in our society. Poor diet – especially if it over-emphasizes heavily processed, chemically laden foods and insufficient consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables. Exposure to chemical pollutants in the environment, workplace and home, such as heavy metals, chemical solvents, air pollution, agricultural chemicals and household cleaning products. The regular use of social and pharmaceutical drugs – which include caffeine, cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana and all hard drugs, and pharmaceuticals. Lack of exercise. Most people should get at least one hour of mild to moderate exercise per day (such as walking) and a minimum 20 to 30 minutes of aerobic workout three times per week. Insufficient sleep. Most adults require eight to nine hours per day, teenagers and children need more. Far too much stress. Exercise and sleep can help reduce stress, but most people in our society are so overstressed that some kind of stress management program is necessary. Disciplines such as tai chi, yoga or meditation are helpful, as is spending time in nature. We also need to stop buying into the mindset that we have to be accessible 24/7. People in our society need to learn how to create boundaries and allow themselves some quality time to nurture themselves. Negative emotions. These days anger, fear, frustration, envy and hatred of happiness, contentment, compassion and love.
