Salt: Pillar or Poison to Human Health?
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July 14, 2008
Salt: Pillar or Poison to Human Health?
Ashville, NC --- The phrase, "international salt talks" takes on a whole new meaning as ingredients-savvy consumers worldwide demand healthy salt in their diets. Throughout history, the world's populations have had a hearty interest in salt - sometimes financial, sometimes as a trade commodity, sometimes religious, sometimes medicinal - but always as a flavor-enhancing ingredient in foods, and as a component of health.
In Ancient times, the lack of access to salt could have serious health repercussions:
The chemical requirements of the human body demand that the salt concentration in the blood be kept constant. If the body does not get enough salt, a hormonal mechanism compensates by reducing the excretion of salt in the urine and sweat. But it cannot reduce this output to zero. On a completely salt-free diet the body steadily loses small amounts of salt via the kidneys and sweat glands. It then attempts to adjust this by accelerating its secretion of water, so that the blood's salt concentration can be maintained at the vital level. The result is a gradual desiccation of the body and finally death. [BLOCH, M. R. 1963. "The Social Influence of Salt." Scientific American 209: 89 - 98.]
In the modern era, the use of salt has evolved from industrialized, chemically processed and fortified salt to specialty sources, processes and varieties; the world of salt is increasingly diversified as food processors meet and exceed the demands of health-conscious and flavor-sensitive consumers.
Ocean's Flavor is one such specialty ocean salt processor, providing a natural lower-sodium, healthier and tasty alternative to traditional salt. Ocean's Flavor Natural Sea Salts are specialty products with natural low-sodium ranges from 45% lower sodium to 70% lower sodium than other standard table salt or sea salt. This is due to the company's tight patent-pending restrictions that can optimize the environment's natural ability to produce a salt comprised of lower sodium, while maintaining great taste and the ocean's healthy minerals which are required for a balanced diet and healthy body.
"Over the last two years, Ocean's Flavor has experienced tremendous growth due to the public's demand for lower sodium products," said Alan Fisher, Ocean's Flavor president. "This need has been further supported by newer and more defined sodium intake guidelines, as set forth by the American Heart Association, American Medical Association and The Center for Science here in the United States. Paralleling these new requirements are the new stringent restrictions in the United Kingdom."
Today health concerns center on diets which have excesses in salt. For example, U.S. consumers have a love affair with salt, ingesting six to 18 grams of salt daily, while the average person needs only 0.5 grams per day. The excess that Americans ingest leads to heart disease and strokes�the number one and number three killers in the U.S. respectively.
Contacts:
Alan Fisher
Ocean's Flavor
619-793-5269
Nancy Garberson
Marketing and Communication Strategies, Inc.
319-363-6005
July 14, 2008
Salt: Pillar or Poison to Human Health?
Ashville, NC --- The phrase, "international salt talks" takes on a whole new meaning as ingredients-savvy consumers worldwide demand healthy salt in their diets. Throughout history, the world's populations have had a hearty interest in salt - sometimes financial, sometimes as a trade commodity, sometimes religious, sometimes medicinal - but always as a flavor-enhancing ingredient in foods, and as a component of health.
In Ancient times, the lack of access to salt could have serious health repercussions:
The chemical requirements of the human body demand that the salt concentration in the blood be kept constant. If the body does not get enough salt, a hormonal mechanism compensates by reducing the excretion of salt in the urine and sweat. But it cannot reduce this output to zero. On a completely salt-free diet the body steadily loses small amounts of salt via the kidneys and sweat glands. It then attempts to adjust this by accelerating its secretion of water, so that the blood's salt concentration can be maintained at the vital level. The result is a gradual desiccation of the body and finally death. [BLOCH, M. R. 1963. "The Social Influence of Salt." Scientific American 209: 89 - 98.]
In the modern era, the use of salt has evolved from industrialized, chemically processed and fortified salt to specialty sources, processes and varieties; the world of salt is increasingly diversified as food processors meet and exceed the demands of health-conscious and flavor-sensitive consumers.
Ocean's Flavor is one such specialty ocean salt processor, providing a natural lower-sodium, healthier and tasty alternative to traditional salt. Ocean's Flavor Natural Sea Salts are specialty products with natural low-sodium ranges from 45% lower sodium to 70% lower sodium than other standard table salt or sea salt. This is due to the company's tight patent-pending restrictions that can optimize the environment's natural ability to produce a salt comprised of lower sodium, while maintaining great taste and the ocean's healthy minerals which are required for a balanced diet and healthy body.
"Over the last two years, Ocean's Flavor has experienced tremendous growth due to the public's demand for lower sodium products," said Alan Fisher, Ocean's Flavor president. "This need has been further supported by newer and more defined sodium intake guidelines, as set forth by the American Heart Association, American Medical Association and The Center for Science here in the United States. Paralleling these new requirements are the new stringent restrictions in the United Kingdom."
Today health concerns center on diets which have excesses in salt. For example, U.S. consumers have a love affair with salt, ingesting six to 18 grams of salt daily, while the average person needs only 0.5 grams per day. The excess that Americans ingest leads to heart disease and strokes�the number one and number three killers in the U.S. respectively.
Contacts:
Alan Fisher
Ocean's Flavor
619-793-5269
Nancy Garberson
Marketing and Communication Strategies, Inc.
319-363-6005
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