Surviving the Sodium Scare for the People of God

When you receive the Seal you start to change the way you eat. You eat less and you eat more healthy foods as God intended. One enemy found in great amounts in most processed food is sodium.

Processed food usually has a lot of salt in it, and so it has high levels of sodium. This is considered to be the single most harmful aspect of the common American diet--worse even than trans fats!

Recently the FDA has considered putting warning labels on foods when they contain high levels of sodium. And they might even regulate the sodium level in foods, setting limits to how much they can contain.

That would lower the sky-high amounts of sodium found in meals like TV dinners. When you are sealed you should not eat anything like TV dinners and you should avoid most processed food.

The FDA has not had to regulate sodium levels in foods yet. One reason is because food manufacturers are lowering sodium amounts on their own. Apparentl y low-sodium labels are a turn-off to people so they are reducing sodium quietly.

But this all shows the problem in eating processed food--what God gave us to heal us is turned into something harmful in processed food. God gave us natural salt to nurse us back to health, just as Jesus recommended.

Jesus said, "Salt is good." It is that simple. Yet the high levels of sodium in all that processed food are causing high blood pressure and heart disease in record levels. How can we get the benefits of salt instead of the harm?

The answer is to eat natural salt like sea salt. When you eat natural salt instead of hurting yourself you can cure yourself of a variety of ailments, just as God intended. God wants you to be healthy, while man-made nutrition has a different goal than your health.

Processed food is not produced to be healthy. It is produced to have a long shelf-life which makes it less expensive to produce. That means mor e profits for food companies, not a healthier you.

But there is good news. You can eat natural salt and receive up to 84 minerals your body needs. You need salt because 90 percent of your body is "salt water." And you can be cured of a variety of ailments.

You can be cured of respiratory problems, skin problems, lack of energy, and pain and stress. And much more. If you eat enough of the processed salt found in the mainstream grocery store it will kill you. If you eat sea salt it will save your life.

So you can eat salt, even eat it in abundance. "Salt is good." You even need salt. You need the trace minerals you do not get in your food. You do not need heart surgery or blood-pressure medication.

Jesus came to give life, not to take it away. And when God sets the Seal upon you, He entrusts you with new life. You will want to care for your body through your diet, especially when you start to age a little.

And yo u can avoid processed foods, even if you have limited resources like time and money. Once you get enough protein you can simply add more fruits and vegetables and whole grains. This really does not cost any more than processed food.

But if you really want to glorify God more with a longer life, you need to start eating less too. You can afford better-quality food when you eat less of it. And you will look better and feel better for it.