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• Although it is true that people who already have high blood pressure can lower it by limiting their salt intake, the fact is that people who have normal blood pressure are not much affected by salt. Salt, however, can be a deadly poison if too much is taken all at once. A mere 2.3 ounces will make a person seriously sick. About 6.6 ounces will kill an adult human. Salt saturation used to be an acceptable method of suicide in Japan. • In an experiment, people were given massive doses of salt, not only in their food but also intravenously. The effects of too much salt were swollen feet, weight gain, an enlarged heart, and high blood pressure. Too little salt resulted in fatigue, confusion, muscle cramps, poor judgment, and an inability to correctly estimate passage of time. In another study, people with abnormally low sodium levels were shown to have a higher death rate than those with a normal level of salt in their bodies. • Pound for pound, babies have almost twothirds more sodium and twice as much chloride as adults. In 1980, a brand of soy-based baby formula jumped on the "low-salt" bandwagon and began offering a new low sodium formula. Within a few months, 34 cases of chloride deficiency in babies were reported. The babies were losing weight, sluggish, and stunted because they were not getting enough sodium chloride. They recovered after being switched to a different formula, and the baby food company put salt back in its recipes.

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• "Wich" was the word indicating a town where salt was produced such as Greenwich, Northwich, and even Sandwich, which was a place before it was a food. • The word "salt" probably comes from the name of the town Es-Salt, which was once a capital city close to the Dead Sea. It is also the origin of words like "salami" and "salad." The words "war" and "peace" originate from the ancient Arabic words for salt and bread, perhaps because the first wars were fought over these two commodities. • Much of human society has been built around salt, which has often served as the cornerstone of economy. The Roman government used to pay its soldiers in salt, and our word ‘salary’ comes from the Roman word for salt. Any worker who didn't work hard was "not worth his salt."

WHY IS THE SEA SALTY? • Seas are salty because water dissolves the natural salts in the soils and rocks it flows through on the way to the ocean. Over the eons as water has continually evaporated from the oceans, the salts have been left behind. The concentration builds up year after year. The oceans are 3.5 percent salt.

www.dakotacommercial.com/apts • The Dead Sea, which, at 1,300 feet below sea level is the lowest place on the planet, has plenty of fresh water coming in but not a single place where water can go out. Because the rate of evaporation is so high, all the incoming minerals are left behind. In some spots the Dead Sea is 23% salt which is too salty to support any kind of life. By comparison, the Great Salt Lake in Utah is about 20% salt-- so salty that it never completely freezes over. • About 97% of Earth's water is in the form of salty seawater. • When evaporated, 150 gallons of seawater will ...continued yield 35 lbs.of salt.

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• Your kidneys are responsible for making sure the ratio of salt to water in the bloodstream stays at the optimum level. If you drink salt water while stranded on a raft in the ocean, the level of salt in the bloodstream skyrockets. The kidneys now work overtime to add water to the blood in order to return things to normal. Sea water is three times saltier than urine, so for every cup of sea water that is drunk, the body has to make three cups of urine to flush the salt out of the body. This robs your body tissues of their natural supply of water, and you become dehydrated much faster than if you had not drunk the salt water.

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• Some species of sea birds have a gland between their eyes that filters salt from seawater that the bird drinks and empties it out of the beak. Some birds, like the albatross, cannot drink fresh water or they suffer from salt deficiency as the salt continues to pour out of the gland. The camel is also adapted for drinking brackish salt water. Pure water may intoxicate the animal.

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• Joy Morton was born in 1855 in Nebraska City, & Crookston locations of: Located on Nebraska. After falling ill with spinal meningitis publicati the racks nea on at the age of 18, he decided to get a job entailing r th Exit doors e ! hard physical labor in an outdoor setting in order to regain his strength. He subsequently went to work for the railroad, working throughout Illinois. He • As a result, between 1924 and 1928, the goiters of eventually found a job working for E.I. Wheeler's Michigan - and everywhere else - virtually disapsalt manufacturing company in Chicago. peared. Today, over half of all table salt sold is iodized. Sea salt has no iodine added because it con• He became a partner in the business in 1886 when tains iodine naturally. he invested $10,000 in order to move salt westward

by hauling it on barges across the Great Lakes. • The other innovation Morton invented was to add an anti-caking element to salt. In the 1800s, ground-up When Wheeler died, Morton bought the company. salt tended to form clumps in humid weather. Many When his brother and son joined the company, it salt shakers were made that tried to combat this using was renamed Morton Salt Company. It was the various means. Some had agitators inside to break only salt company in the nation at the time and it is up lumps; some had special pockets for moisture-abstill remains the #1 salt producer in North America. sorbing solutions. Morton began adding magnesium • Morton was responsible for two innovations in salt. carbonate to salt which prevented it from clumping Iodine is essential for the thyroid gland to work up even in the rainiest environments. This inspired properly. Without iodine, the thyroid swells, sometheir slogan (swiped from the Bible, and suggested times enormously, and forms a goiter. People sufby Morton's son) "When it rains, it pours" and the fafering from iodine deficiency suffer from tremors, mous logo of the little girl with the big umbrella. In a fatigue, nausea, and anemia. Iodine is usually prespoll, 90% of housewives recognized the slogan. Afent in the soil and the water. But in places where ter the clumping problem was solved, the salt shaker it's not, goiters became common. In 1924, almost became standard issue. 66% of school children in the Lake Superior school districts had goiters. Meantime, goiters were almost • In 1903, the Morton warehouse in South Chicago contained over 200,000 tons of salt - the world's unheard of along the Mississippi River, where the largest stock under a single roof. No one knows what water has up to 18,000 times as much natural iodine started the fire, but the entire compound was in ruins as Lake Superior. After being approached by health by the time it was out. Where once there were piles officials, Morton became the first company to add of pure white salt, now there were piles of blackiodine to its salt in minuscule amounts. Health auened salt, covered with ashes and carbon. Joy Morthorities correctly surmised that salt was the single ton was undaunted. Charcoal makes a good additive most universally consumed food item, and it’s easy in stock food, and soon farmers were buying up the to add iodine to salt. One-fifth of a pound of iodine new product: Morton's special "charcoal blend." The is enough to treat an entire ton of salt. entire stock of salt was sold.

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• In the 1930s the Morton Co. expanded into other chemical products, and in 1982 merged with the Thiokol Corp. to form Morton-Thiokol. Morton now sells around 400 different kinds of salt-based products.

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• According to the legend, Lord Sandys of England spent several years living in India. Around 1835 he returned home to England, bringing with him the recipe for a sauce that he liked which was popular in India. He gave the recipe to two druggists named John Lea and William Perrins. ...continued

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