Daily Baby Steps #1

This is the beginning of a series of baby steps that everyone can do to move toward better health for yourself and your family. Some of these will be easy, no brainers!  Most are simply exchanging one thing for another or eliminating something from your now healthy diet. I will include information that I think pertains to the “Why” we should do something and I will include the swap details. Usually when you remove an item, it can be replaced with a healthy alternative.
I am not perfect. I hope these things help you and encourage you, but you may have a different opinion or just not feel good eating something. Please, trust your own body. I welcome your comments and suggestions!

#1 Remove table salt from your diet! Don't cook with it, bake with it, eat it or use it on or in your body in any way. Replace with sea salt with minerals. This will look like dirty salt. It's not white. You are looking for gray or pink with speckles of other colors in it. This tastes and acts exactly the same as table salt in all your recipes and uses. We use Real Salt Natures Sea Salt and its available in all grocery stores that carry health foods. It comes in a pouch that has clear patches where you can see the salt particles. Any brand of Celtic Sea Salt or Himalayan Sea Salt is perfect. Don't reach for the Hain's or Morton's sea salt or anything that packages the sea salt so you cannot see it.

There are some good uses for table salt that do not put it in or on your body. The main one that I can think of off the top of my head is to rid your home of fleas. Put trays of table salt on the floor around your home and leave them there. The fleas jump in and never come out! Trust me, this works, I have done it!

Why switch? Table salt is highly processed. They have taken the minerals out and sometimes replaced it with iodine, but not always. Table salt ends up absorbing vitamins and minerals from your body as it travels along. This is how your body rids itself of this foreign body. Table salt definitely does not feed your body or give it nutrients. That is our goal, right? To eat only those things that feed our bodies by giving us vitamins and minerals.

Now, go take your baby step!!