When you say give up salt, do you mean to totally eliminate it from your diet?
I’m no diet expert but I thought salt was essential for our healthy functioning.
When I worked in the tropics years ago we used to take salt tablets because we were sweating so much. If we forgot to take the tablets we soon got cramps.
Another example is the experience of an Aikido teacher I know: He found after years of giving week long in-house training that the key to keeping everyone’s energy up and cramps away, was to add lots of salt into the food.
My 2 cents
Hi Frank, What is Ghee and what effects has it had on you?
Hi Sparkle, I’ve played alot of golf in Ireland love the place. Where are you?
We are one
Guy
Dear Sparkle,
I trained hard at karate for over 30 yrs and I sweat profusely in these circumstances. I have not seasoned any food with salt for 20 yrs and have had no ill effect.In comparision to Karate or other activiteis, Aikido is very gentle training and I never worked up nowhere near the same sweat rate when I trained in Aikido. It’s a brilliant art though. 
I no longer drink alcohol and meditation certainly changes your desire for such things. I gave up meat 20 yrs ago also and recently stopped eating any fish products. It’s eggs and hard cheeses next I guess but my wife is still getting used to the non fish yet.
L&L
Dave
‘the mind can see further than the eyes’
Hi riptiz
Yeh, you could be right about the Aikido, its just what my friend told me, it was only during week long intensives during the summer though, when the body would not have time to recuperate.
I think there are plenty of salts in the food we get anyway so there is no need to take extra salt at the table - is this what you mean?
We have salt and vinegar on our fish an chips 
and that’s about it, but I would say we still have far too much.
The point I was making was that salts are essential for the body - in the correct amounts - according to my info.
Hi Guy
Glad you enjoyed the Emerald Isle. I live in South Dublin, but have managed to avoid golf so far 
. Where did you get too?
S
thank meq, i would look for the bark of Pau dÁrco, but i have search it an is more of a medicine for multiple illness. the lack of salts in the body (bases plus acids or certain ions) may cause all that you all say, and scientifically there are a lot of salts in vegetables so the relation of avoiding salt crystals is different. but i dont know how to argue that. maybe is a relation of quantity, when you add salt is much more that the one contained in vegetables.
in lak´ech
Melissa, is that raw almonds you make the milk out of? Sounds good. I’ve heard that a lot of raw nuts contain enzyme inhibitors which prevent them from rotting until they’ve sprouted. So sprouted or roasted are supposed to be better because they don’t prevent other enzymes in your digestive system from working.
About raw milk; you can’t really get raw milk here (USA) because it is illegal to sell milk in the USA that is not pasteurized. They do it to keep from spreading disease. So what is sold as “raw” is just not homogenized. If you can get it directly from a cow without pasteurization, it has amazing health benefits as I posted here:
http://www.aypsite.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=550
About soy milk: you can get relatively unprocessed soy milk, but if you want it pure and fresh, make your own. The machine costs about $100, and you’re supposed to be able to make the best soy milk with little more than beans.
About the smell of BBQ’d meat: I love that smell too. but there are lots of veggies that are wonderful on the grill: white and green onions, asparagus, tomatoes, green peppers, plantain, mushrooms, zuccini all pick up wood smoke taste if the smoke is there. Baste them with olive oil. Just put a small can with wood chips and the lid closed (not sealed; just lay the lid on), in the coals. If the wood doesn’t get enough oxygen to burn, it smokes. You don’t have to wet the chips. I like Jack Daniel’s whiskey barrel chips.
i try to eat less meat most of the time. I like to make up recipies with meat substitutes: “Dirty Rice” made with Kashi instead of rice, and morningstar meatless breakfast sausage is delicious!
My latest love is morningstar meatless “steak strips” in a stir fry.
i’m pretty doubtful about that soy online service debunking soy products,
because you don’t find that information anywhere else. If you know anyone from New Zealand, they are BIG meat eaters, and I would suspect a conflict of interest there.
Salt tablets: The reason that people who sweat a lot need salt tablets is that they are addicted to salt. So when they sweat and lose too much salt they get faint. If your diet doesn’t have salt in it you won’t have that problem as much. After strenuous exercise a better alternative to salt is electrolytes like Gatorade which have other salts in it besides sodium chloride. The body needs other salts too. You can get them from just eating well, not adding to the food. I used to like Dr. Bronner’s “Balanced Mineral Seasoning”. It came in a seasoned salt form and in a soy sauce form. It had a lot of different salts in it. Hs anyone seen it or something similar lately?
I eat a wide variety of food, but have found that a large amount of salad type greens each day makes me the healthiest. I have to have it before meals, not after. Celery works fine too. An alkalyzed body works better and is more resistant to disease. Alkalyzing comes from greens, and bitter tastes. People say celery doesn’t have anything nutritious in it, but it is full of alkaline water and fiber, two of the healthiest things you can eat.
Keeping your system clean with lots of water and greens gets rid of toxins.
David,
Actually garlic is quite rajasic as well. Essentially, like steroids, it is medicinal in small quantities to those who need it (good for the heart). Otherwise, it excites initially, and later leads to dullness or tamas as an after-effect. Hence, I avoid it, along with onions.
In Bliss,
Antarananda.
I am proud to say that I have been a vegetarian for three weeks, including my first veggie Thanksgiving. Me’s a feelin gooood.
Interestingly, I ate some pasta last night with a lot of garlic mixed in with the sauce. It caused me terrible unrest through the night. I was even having lucid drems and out of body experiences. At one point I thought I was looking at the ceiling with my eyes closed and it was just spinning. Too uncomfortable to lay on my side, so I tried my back. Only got a couple hours, uncomfortable ones.
After eating some beans and rice for breakfeast, with a touch of sea salt, I feel very good.
Congrats Kyman
Curious to know why you went vegetarian, there are a few reasons why one would go veggie as I see it.
- Compassion for animals
- A lighter diet can bring lighter energies
- Meat stays in the body for over a week, rotting and putrefying before it is expelled.
- Vegetarianism can led to less aggression in a person
- More vegetarians would led to less cattle, thus benefit the global warming situation by having less cow flatulence (which is actually a major contributor to the problem).
- It is sixteen time more efficient per acre, to feed a person on a vegetarian diet than on a meat diet.
Maybe you can add a few more
Louis the carnivore
My main goal was to achieve balance, which would include all of the above if I am applying an expanded defintion of self.
I think you covered most of them. The emphasis being 1 and 2. I don’t have anything personal against eating meat, but supporting meat factories with my energy has given me some pause.
I know exactly what you mean Kyman. I avoid any foods from the Meatrix. 
Paul