Thu, Aug-23-12, 10:46
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Plan: EpiPaleo/Primal/LowOx
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Progress: 129%
Location: USA
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Originally Posted by bike2work
I'm glad to have justification to eat salt, I use it liberally anyway, but I can't square this with paleo thinking. Was salt easily available to our ancestors? Would they have consumed it in such large quantities?
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Heck, go back far enough, and we LIVED in the sea.
No reason to think mammals don't want, and need, salt. Salt licks lure deer to their doom, and raccoons are famous for chewing up outhouse seats.
I'm really glad I sprang for that 5 pound bag of pink Himalayan salt. Yum! |