Salt

What do you think of when I say salt? Do bad connotations come into your mind, like: salt is bad for you, it causes high blood pressure, it makes you retain water... These can be true, but what does salt do for our bodies?
Maintains blood pressure
Supports thyroid and adrenal function
pH balance
Cellulite
Bone health
Our nervous system
This list could go on and on of the benefits of salt. So, does this make you ask then if salt is really all that bad for you? What about different types of salt, table salt verses none processed sea salt?

Table salt does cause the problems we understand about with salt. Staying away from this can be a good thing for your health. However, staying away from all salt is not a good idea. We have to have salt for our bodies to function properly.

To better understand this, here are two great articles on salt, no need for me to re-type what they have already done.
http://wellnessmama.com/3745/is-salt-healthy
http://chriskresser.com/shaking-up-the-salt-myth-history-of-salt
Both articles have good information in them for you to better understand why we need salt and what to watch out for.

Saving the world one stick of butter at a time.
Striving to be the salt of the earth,
Jenn