Excessive amounts of salt in the diet damages healthy bacteria living in our intestines and leads to high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, and fatigue.But we need some salt. If you perspire, whether it's from exercising, using a sauna, or living in a hot climate, you can lose too much sodium and other minerals in your sweat causing serious consequences, even death. People with weak adrenals often don’t retain enough salt leading to excessively low blood pressure, so they need extra salt.According to Mark Kurlansky, author of Salt: A World History, humans began to include salt in their diets once crops were cultivated and grains introduced. Salt mobilizes enzymes that help to digest grains and balance their acidity with alkalinizing minerals. (Unless it’s conventional salt, stripped of its natural minerals, in which case it will only increase the acidifying effect of eating grains. More about that later.)The problem is most people are getting too much salt, and it’s…

As long as the anodized finish remains in tact, you are protected and will not get aluminum in your food. However, if the finish gets damaged, your aluminum wok will no longer be safe to use. Aluminum ingested in food is in a different form from the aluminum you would ingest from the cookware. Although you would be ingesting much less from the cookware than you would be getting from food, it would be in a dangerous form that would bioaccumulate in your tissues.…