The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-24

7 statement without fear OF successful
| contradiction: All supplementary salt
| with food Is super1uous and distinctly
| harmful TO digestion.
| "Salt with food In the proportion
| Of 4 parts or less to the 1000 Is bene-
| fetal to digestion, but beyond six parts
! to the 900 II is positively harmful.
| Our daily average consumption is ap-
| proximately 225 parts to 1000.
"Sea-waters contains about 27 parts
to 1000.
"The taste for salt with food Is ac.
uulred in every instance. 1t does not
exist in animals or birds. Animals
and primitive man alike taloe salt only
! in the Intervals OF digestion. Unsalted
| food is as palatable as salted food. ex-
cept when the taste Is perverted by
the long-contiDued use Of salt with
| food
"A nine months continuous diet
OF unsalted food enables me TO make
this statement with positiveness.
"Natrium choloride exists In all liv-
ing bodies. In mammals, both sea
and land, it is contained in the ap-
proximate proportion Of Go parts to
1000; in marine vertebratcs, 16 TO 90
parts To 1000, in birds and fresh
water fish about the same as in man.
mails. while In vegetable matter ] TO
2 parts to 1000. These proportions
vary with very narrow limits,
physiologically. In vital bodies salt
Is always n solution In the fluids of
the tissues. 1t has not been demon
strated that il ever enters the cell.
"It being we'll understood that the
density Of the blood serum can not
vary to exceed $50 per cent from the
normal, it should be easy TO see that
hyperchloridation renders the blood
pathological, inhabiting both assimi-
lation and assimilation by the dam
age to the red cells. .........
when food contains proportion
of salt greater than the normal salt
solution. it: (a) retarls absorption;
(b) diminishes secretion; (c) causes
transudation into the canal.
Hence the ideal conditions to re-
suit In indigestion exist In good d.
gestion, secretion and absorption must
be equal Digestion is retarded by
diminished secretion. by diminished
absorption, and by the presence Of
fluid that Is not digestive"
According to DR.. Beeson, our daily
army rations contains 307 grains of
salt, of which only Is are asslmilated.
In experiments made recently at Colo
RADIO University, 1t was found that
parts of salt in 1000 lessons the
time of digestion by one TO three
hours, while If the proportion per l.
900 were increased to the time was
increased again by two to three hours.
The writer concludes:
Enough has been said to show
quite conclusively that salt is q Ger
used with the food in proportion
greater than that of the blood, or 60
parts to 1000 Also 1T is clear that
hyperchloridation means the storage
in the system OF an injurious amount
of water That extra salt demands
extra water is plain. And 1t is easily
seen that thirst accompanied by
physical and mental distress Is prone
to resort to drugs in addition to
water for relief,
The dry fauces produced by salty
meal is the index to the dry condition
of all the mucous surfaces. When
elimination takes place reaction oc-
ours, and the mucous glands become
active again This process repeated
day after day can have but one re-
suit, exhaustion and secondary infec'
tions. This is the picture Of the pro-
IL Co.. alft lon
wherever located
"And who can wonder that a child
bred on an excessive salt diet be"
comes an invalid, an incorrigible, or
q criminal, OF lunatic?"