The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-10-12
USE OF SALT IN FOOD.
a Majority OF People Eat Too Little
Sail and An Excessive Use is Dan

a Majority OF People Eat Toe Little
Salt and an Excessive Use is Dan.
gerous.
Augusta Chronicle.
Are we eating too much salt 2" is
the question prOpounded by the New
York Journal Of Hygiene, in a discus
sion OF what it calls "the salt habit"
or the excessive use of salt in food.
some salt is necessary in food, per-
maps. but many persons take too much,
AMI upon articles on which it is un-
necessary. They want their meat.
fish, potatoes, melons, butter, tomatoes,
turn1ps, bread, etc, positively salt.
They hold hat salt "brings out the
tlavor," and consider it ia the same
class with sugar as u sweetener. The
Journal argues that as q result the
skin and kidneys are excessively
taxed to get rid of the salt, and both
are Injured by it. Few people have
healthy skins, and it is believed that
many cases OF arrangement of the
kidneys are due to tAe salt habit.
There is a reaction against it in pro.
gress. But little salt is required by
the human body, and those who know
this are disposed to discard the volun-
tary use Of it altogether.
Our hygienic experts have argued
hehy pSi oouS OuI Vi UlS GdUlnR OF aclu IT
sub-acid fruit. They have ingeniously
assaulted bread eating. The vegeta-
rian long ago condemned q flesh diet.
1T should not specially surprise us that
the onslaught Is now made on salt. To
be quite fair, however, it, must be
stated that the Journal of Hygiene does
not prohibit salt for human consump-
tion, but a0monishes against excess
slve use. 1t is perhaps correct In tina,
modification. The excessive use of any,
thing, no matter how wholesome, /.
dangerous. Our own opinion is, how
ever, that a majority Of people use toe
little salt instead of too much. "A Judi
cious use OF IL will preserve health
and we know persons whU have cured
themselves of dyspepsia, neuralgia
etc: by partaking Of salt, say take ,
nall teaspoonful, dissolved in a tum
berful OF hot water before breakfast
Persons who have, by this simple pro
cess, broken up painful ailments, ar,
disposed to regard salt as the true ma
tural remedy for congestion and dis
eases following from it. Some paopl,
insist that they cannot take the dos,
and hold 1T on an empty stomach. Alas
Tor such unlucky brethren, with suct
veal sSomachs.
With the Journal Of Hygiene we re
probate excessive u g of salt, but coun
sci its judtcious use, both on articles o
diet, in solution, as a be eragc. 1t /
} maintained that nothing is better 70
5 an infant suffering with cholera infan
tum than salt Goldfish. A noble speci
men OF manhood, who was also a phy
:; stefan, assured us chat his so year
l we're borne h%ealthily by copious use G
} salt. There is a gentleman on tn
Sand Hills who cured q distressin
dyspepsia by salt in water. Anothe
gentleman says that he was rescue
from an almost chronic NEURALGIA in tn
same way. He adds: 81 use no drug.
: Salt is my hea.th-preserver. [ easil
, break up congestion by its proper us,
would have been spared manv yea
t OF torture had | earlier known H.. save
ana its virtues" All Of which is r,
specially referred to the Journal
y Hygiene.