From: "Steve Harris" <sbharris@ix.RETICULATEDOBJECTcom.com> Newsgroups: sci.med.nutrition Subject: Re: Sea salt & iodine Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 20:22:29 -0600 Message-ID: <admh7k$afs$1@slb0.atl.mindspring.net> "Jacqueline" <jacquelinejunk@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:9857c0c8.0206051659.2337088@posting.google.com... > Hi, I went to see a nutritionist and they recommended I switch to sea > salt from regular salt. I'd love to know your "nutritionist's" thinking on that. Does this person have a degree from an accredited university? I smell quackery. > We do eat a lot of seafood (about 2 times a week, working on > increasing that to 3 or more) and I eat seaweed (in sushi and miso > soup) at least a couple times a month. > > Am I getting enough iodine in my diet or should I switch back to > regular iodized salt? Comment: It's very likely you've getting more than enough iodine. Is there some reason you can't take a stardard multivit with trace minerals to be sure? Sea salt has some magnesium in it (that's what makes it cake) but so do a lot of other foods. The only thing sea salt is likely to have in it that a standard vit/mineral supplement won't, is some bromide. Bromide doesn't do much in the body, except that eosinophils seem to use it preferentially for their myeloperoxidase, and I've always wondered if bromide makes people who suffer allergies worse. But apparently nobody has studied this. If you have allergies and they get worse on the stuff, you might experiment by stopping it. Trivia: there's a little girl on the front of the Morton's salt box with salt spilling as she walks, and the motto "When it rains, it pours." That's a nice little pun meaning the stuff doesn't cake in humid conditions. A result of removing the magnesium that is present in natural ocean salts. Now, people pay extra to leave it in. Go figure. SBH -- I welcome Email from strangers with the minimal cleverness to fix my address (it's an open-book test). I strongly recommend recipients of unsolicited bulk Email ad spam use "http://combat.uxn.com" to get the true corporate name of the last ISP address on the viewsource header, then forward message & headers to "abuse@[offendingISP]." |