Salt Without Its Savor--Man Without His Savior

I've been doing a lot of studying of whole foods and one item I've been learning about is salt. Salt back when the scriptures were written was not processed, or iodized, or bleached. I read an interesting study today about salt cravings (just have to have that potato chip?) and how a scientist in Philadelphia studied what bodies are going through uring cravings. His findings were that when a person craves salt their bodies are lacking in a certain mixture of minerals that are needed by the body to function optimally.

What it says about your body
If nothing but the saltiest french fry will do, you may have a mineral deficiency. Studies have shown that women who eat low-calcium diets want salty foods more than those who get enough of the bone builder, says Michael Tordoff, Ph. D., a researcher at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, an institute that studies taste and smell. One possible reason: Sodium temporarily increases calcium levels in the blood, which tricks the body into thinking the problem is solved. But you may have a shortage of other minerals too. In animal studies, researchers have found that a lack of potassium, calcium, and iron causes test subjects to devour table salt.

Unrefined sea salt contains 98.0 % NaCl (sodium-chloride) and up to 2.0% other minerals (salts) : Epsom salts and other Magnesium salts, Calcium salts, Potassium (Kalium) salts, Manganese salts, Phosphorus
salts, Iodine salts, ... all together over 100 minerals.
By contrast, processed table salt has sodium-chloride & iodine.

This does NOT fulfill the body's need, therefore you continue to crave more salt because that is where the body is used to getting salt from. Anyhow, after learning this, the scripture

13 ¶ Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

(New Testament | Matthew 5:13)

came to mind. Ye are the salt of the earth. The most nourishing thing the earth has, full of small miracles that the world needs in order to function. Tiny, little miracles that without, the earth would cease to be, just as our bodies will shut down if they cease to get those trace minerals from salt. Dying slowly, rather than thriving because we are putting processed salt into our bodies...the earth dying slowly as we fail to perform the miracles we are capable of. Fail to be in tune to the spirit of the Lord--have we lost our savour? Our Savior? Are we really following him?

Anyhow, I decided to post a treat: