The fact is that granulated sodium chloride commonly found in salt shakers everywhere can no more be called genuine salt in the historic use of that word, than a pile of boards can rightly be called a house, or a pile of sand can rightly be called garden soil. You see the point. The facts are quite simple. Our bodies should not be made to metabolize sodium chloride alone, consistently over many years, any more than we should live on highly refined foods, such as white flour, white sugar, etc. It is well known that processing and refining of foods destroys the vitality, the very life itself, of the food.
Salt is no exception.
It is naturally air dried in the sun, and unrefined. Historically, salt was valued highly. Sodium chloride is to salt, what perhaps nitrogen alone is to soil and plant growth, or what sucrose alone is to human health. First, we can use a little common sense. Generally, economic gain has occupied a higher priority than health, at least in our modern society.