QuestionDear Geoff,
I've read your answers to other readers' questions and found them extremely helpful to a 'newborn Primal Dieter'. :) However, one thing I have yet to get an answer to is... salt. Do you eat salt at all on your Primal Diet? I haven't seen it addressed on other pages. Since it's not mentioned, a part of me thinks it's not included in this diet, but since it's not mentioned in a negative way... I'm wondering. Can you consume salt at all? If so, what kind and in what amounts?
Thank you very much for reading,
Jenny
AnswerWell, Aajonus Vonderplanitz, the nutritionist behind the Primal Diet, tends to take a very harsh line on salt in both of his Primal Diet books, as it raises blood-pressure etc.. I've usually been recommended to eat tomatoes instead for the necessary sodium.
I would normally agree with Aajonus re the lack of a need for salt on a raw diet. However, these days I often go to the gym and use the sauna - since sweating is known to cause the loss of salts from the body, I've started taking very tiny amounts of salt with my raw meats to replace it(only a couple of pinches of salt every 3 days or so). However, I tend to react rather badly to higher amounts of salt.
Obviously, it goes without saying that you should only buy non-chemically-processed sea-salt or rock-salt, and not the iodised table-salt that is usually sold. Personally, at the start of going raw, I preferred pepper and raw garlic for seasoning my meats, but, again, I found it much easier on my stomach, if I kept them to very small amounts.
Hope This Helps,
Geoff Purcell
http://www.allexperts.com/
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/rawpaleodiet/
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