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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Videos / Other / Choosing the Best Healthy Salt (plus video)

Choosing the Best Healthy Salt (plus video)

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

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  • Natural Sea Salt is What to Use!
  • Video on How to Choose Healthy Salt

healthy salt choicesGetting back to basics is the theme for this video, which focuses on choosing a healthy salt to use in your home. Salt has a bad rap these days getting the blame for conditions such as high blood pressure, hypertension,  water retention, and bloating, among others.  This article explains why you should not fear salt.

“Salt” and “sodium” seem to be used interchangeably, but in reality, they are not exactly the same.

“Sodium” is white salt with only 2 minerals in it (NACL – sodium chloride) that is used everywhere and in large quantities in processed foods.   It is the result of excessive processing of natural sea salt, which normally contains an abundance of health giving minerals.
THIS is the salt that should be avoided.

Natural Sea Salt is What to Use!

On the other hand, there is natural sea salt.

One of the most popular, Celtic sea salt contains over 80 minerals, including iodine, and is part of a healthy diet. It imparts superior flavor to food and helps normalize all functions in the body that require salt to take place such as protein and carbohydrate digestion, brain development in children, and optimal functioning of the adrenal glands.   It is a necessary part of a healthy diet and should not be avoided.   It is my opinion (if someone has seen a study on this, please post in the comments section), that people crave salt and eat too much sodium/white salt because they are mineral deficient and in need of natural sea salt with all its beneficial minerals.   Use of real sea salt may relieve these salt cravings as the body is finally getting all the trace minerals it needs.

Be wary of highly processed salts on the market advertised as sea salt.   If a salt is white, that is your clue that it is highly processed no matter what it is called.   Select a sea salt that has color to it, some are even pink!   A truly healthy salt will have color indicating the presence of other minerals besides just sodium chloride.    Making this change in your home is a critical first step to health.   And, if you have already made other changes to your diet for the better but are still using white salt, today is your day to make this change.

Video on How to Choose Healthy Salt


Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: Amazon #1 bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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  1. Christina

    Jan 23, 2013 at 11:56 am

    This is interesting. I was using regular white sea salt and was craving salt so bad. I put it on my fruit even. I saw pink salt crystals and decided to give it a try. My body is not longer craving salt and oddly some of my food even taste like I have added to much.

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  2. shea

    Aug 23, 2012 at 9:26 pm

    Do you know anything about salt blocks? Amazon.com has himalayan salt blocks for around $2.00 per pound, which is much cheaper than the coursely ground salt. This is me just trying to be frugal wherever possible. If I ground it at home do you think that would be okay? I really have no idea. Thanks!

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  3. Anita

    Jun 9, 2012 at 3:52 pm

    Yes i would like to know what about the crucial component…Iodine? Redmond sea salt doesnt contain Iodine, what do u think are the best sources to get iodine?

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  4. danielle

    Apr 10, 2012 at 11:09 pm

    Very informative thank you! Question- Do you have any references that I can refer to support this statement you made “a salt is white, that is your clue that it is highly processed no matter what it is called. Select a sea salt that has color to it,” ? Not that I’m questioning you at all! Just want to read more about it and have sufficient information to pass along to others when they ask “how do you know?” 🙂 thanks!

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  5. Angela

    Jun 22, 2011 at 8:51 am

    And what about iodine? I have seen packages of sea salt that specifically warn “this product does not contain iodine”.

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  6. Angela

    Jun 22, 2011 at 12:56 am

    Thanks for putting this together! Do you know anything about Himalayan salt (pink)? I have just ordered some through a health supplement website but I am still not sure how this compares to Celtic sea salt. Also, will using sea salt provide enough iodine or should one supplement somehow with kelp, etc?

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    • Sarah, TheHealthyHomeEconomist

      Jun 22, 2011 at 7:18 am

      Hi Angela, I have both Celtic and Himalayan in my pantry (I have Redmond RealSalt too). They have similar flavor and mineral profiles. Each sea salt is unique and brings a slightly different flavor to your cooking. Enjoy them all and see which you prefer for what dishes! 🙂

  7. Audrey

    May 4, 2011 at 1:17 pm

    How did I not know this before!?! I am going today (just as soon as baby wakes from her nap) and getting Redmond RealSalt and throwing out our Morton Salt! Why does the Morton Natural Sea Salt say it is ‘100% Natural’? Clearly not because it is pure processed white! This concerns me about other foods that claim to be ‘natural’…

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  8. Sher

    Jan 26, 2011 at 11:19 am

    I was so happy when I found Redmond’s in bulk at Whole Foods Market. What I have found, though, is that I’m struggling with the grit that it leaves behind. So when eating, I feel like I’m eating sand. Does anybody else have this? Maybe I just need to go to the Celtic Sea Salt. Any suggestions?

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