A lot of information we have about the human body was hard won by early humans. They definitely noticed feeling weak, confused, nauseous and eventually dying in populations that did not eat salt, but exactly how they connected those things to the need for salt is lost to time. Lots of pharmacology is based on folk wisdom gained in similar fashions
actually people knew about nutrition and health care, they just didn't have an advanced understanding of it. humans have always been obsessing over their health since humans could eat. french nobles had health crazes over bone broth, which led to the first restaurants (it's a myth they appeared because of the revolution, but the french revolution did impact resturaunts and made them available for everyone). it was considered unhealthy to eat anything that wasn't cooked, including vegetables. chinese people in sichuan would cook spicy meals because they lived in a humid environment and that was bad in chinese medicine.
They put almost no salt in the food in Bali, I also noticed that, but probably not related to your dad's case. I'm assuming he had food poisoning and strong diarrhea, which usually cases electrolyte deficiency if you don't take those dissolved packets with minerals.
>I doubt they knew of nutrition back then
This might just be the most midwit thing I've ever read in almost 20 years of Culinaly. I'm actually in awe of just how stupid this comment actually is.
Not only does it assume that people 2000 years ago were nutrient deficient because they didn't have ~~*experts*~~ telling them what to eat, but it also has the audacity to assume that current ~~*dietary guidance*~~ is correct. Then in the middle of all that you have the glaringly obvious conclusions being ignored that 1) the human body is really good at keeping itself alive regardless of what you eat, and 2) the human body can subconsciously tell you to eat things that it needs you to eat, like how wild animals will lick at salty things.
That one comment screams "I need to be told what to do" harder than anything I've ever read on here. Damn.
It's everywhere, it tastes good, and is really good at preserving food which mattered a lot more for the majority of human history where refrigerators and freezers didn't exist.
you should be asking why black pepper is paired with salt instead of something good like garlic powder or chili powder
most restaurants have hot sauce and black pepper even though black pepper is much weaker, less complex, and typically lacking most essential oils it may have once had when compared to even a budget brand hot sauce
Complexity isnt always good. Hot sauce overpowers other flavors compared to pepper. Which can be fine if youre having something simple like eggs. But not in every dish
retro-evolution is rare.
we must move forward!
Asilut bound, an imaginable ground
To be found, beyond the restrictions of time
Like the grace of the golden's eagle's flight
To a hight journey on with a vision in sight
Onward upward growing like the tree of life
To connect to the infinte light
Soaring the wind to a pinnacle high, Shamen can fly
It's how the cells in your body create and maintain electron gradients to do everything from sending nerve impulses to making piss. It's as fundamental a desire as water.
basically humans saw it was good for the plants and goats and fish and stuff caused they all liked the salt and so we started eating it a long time ago and it just kinda stuck
>Cheap as a rock >Available anywhere with seawater, either current or ancient >Preserves all sorts of foods via pickling and curing >Tastes pretty good >Able to bring essential metals into your diet
It's honestly a wonder food, and historically was almost as essential as the development of farming for feeding populations. I doubt that there would be societies beyond subsistence farming if humankind didn't figure out salt preservation.
no idiot salt is called "salt". Sodium chloride is a artifical alternative to salt and it has no sodium in it. Its like how garlic salt can still have no sodium in it.
Perhaps you are thinking of potassium chloride, which is commonly used as a salt substitute for people who need to cut back on sodium intake. Sodium chloride, the predominant chemical in table salt, does in fact contain sodium.
By being an essential nutrient
also used for curing meats since times immemorial
But its been used for over 2000 years. I doubt they knew of nutrition back then
Dude, even the fricking animals crave salt.
A lot of information we have about the human body was hard won by early humans. They definitely noticed feeling weak, confused, nauseous and eventually dying in populations that did not eat salt, but exactly how they connected those things to the need for salt is lost to time. Lots of pharmacology is based on folk wisdom gained in similar fashions
it's essential, and it's history goes long back.
actually people knew about nutrition and health care, they just didn't have an advanced understanding of it. humans have always been obsessing over their health since humans could eat. french nobles had health crazes over bone broth, which led to the first restaurants (it's a myth they appeared because of the revolution, but the french revolution did impact resturaunts and made them available for everyone). it was considered unhealthy to eat anything that wasn't cooked, including vegetables. chinese people in sichuan would cook spicy meals because they lived in a humid environment and that was bad in chinese medicine.
You don't need to know about nutrition for your body to crave nutrients. You serious anon?
My dad nearly died in Bali because of low sodium. That said, we don't need as much of it as most of us eat
They put almost no salt in the food in Bali, I also noticed that, but probably not related to your dad's case. I'm assuming he had food poisoning and strong diarrhea, which usually cases electrolyte deficiency if you don't take those dissolved packets with minerals.
Possibly. We also did a lot of acid
>I doubt they knew of nutrition back then
This might just be the most midwit thing I've ever read in almost 20 years of Culinaly. I'm actually in awe of just how stupid this comment actually is.
ok cracker
Not only does it assume that people 2000 years ago were nutrient deficient because they didn't have ~~*experts*~~ telling them what to eat, but it also has the audacity to assume that current ~~*dietary guidance*~~ is correct. Then in the middle of all that you have the glaringly obvious conclusions being ignored that 1) the human body is really good at keeping itself alive regardless of what you eat, and 2) the human body can subconsciously tell you to eat things that it needs you to eat, like how wild animals will lick at salty things.
That one comment screams "I need to be told what to do" harder than anything I've ever read on here. Damn.
hell we don't even know about nutrition now
used to be a preservative before refrigerators for meats and it just kind of stuck. idk
Tastes good, innit
Simpl'as
Plant foods are mostly low in sodium and once they became a bigger part of our diet we had to supplement with salt to not develop deficiencies.
what the frick
It's everywhere, it tastes good, and is really good at preserving food which mattered a lot more for the majority of human history where refrigerators and freezers didn't exist.
you should be asking why black pepper is paired with salt instead of something good like garlic powder or chili powder
most restaurants have hot sauce and black pepper even though black pepper is much weaker, less complex, and typically lacking most essential oils it may have once had when compared to even a budget brand hot sauce
>y donts them restaurants have muh hotsaws and muh lawry’s seasonsalt?
restaurants DO have hotsauce anon
there should be some IQ posting requirement to prevent you from coming back
Blame the french, specifically one of the Louies
Complexity isnt always good. Hot sauce overpowers other flavors compared to pepper. Which can be fine if youre having something simple like eggs. But not in every dish
pepper keeps the bugs away
we used to be fish and live in salty water
I used to have a dick
but evolution removed it. earlier this year
If you packed it in salt you might be able to wear it again someday.
retro-evolution is rare.
we must move forward!
Asilut bound, an imaginable ground
To be found, beyond the restrictions of time
Like the grace of the golden's eagle's flight
To a hight journey on with a vision in sight
Onward upward growing like the tree of life
To connect to the infinte light
Soaring the wind to a pinnacle high, Shamen can fly
We didn’t have salt when I was a kid.
Did you died
Because it works on everything
It's how the cells in your body create and maintain electron gradients to do everything from sending nerve impulses to making piss. It's as fundamental a desire as water.
basically humans saw it was good for the plants and goats and fish and stuff caused they all liked the salt and so we started eating it a long time ago and it just kinda stuck
>Cheap as a rock
>Available anywhere with seawater, either current or ancient
>Preserves all sorts of foods via pickling and curing
>Tastes pretty good
>Able to bring essential metals into your diet
It's honestly a wonder food, and historically was almost as essential as the development of farming for feeding populations. I doubt that there would be societies beyond subsistence farming if humankind didn't figure out salt preservation.
salt being cheap is a modern creation. whole people were made to suffer over not having salt. ask the indians about the salt tax and you will know.
some rich guy made it the standard
Because of my high blood pressure I have to use sodium chloride.
Dude that would be salt?
no idiot salt is called "salt". Sodium chloride is a artifical alternative to salt and it has no sodium in it. Its like how garlic salt can still have no sodium in it.
Perhaps you are thinking of potassium chloride, which is commonly used as a salt substitute for people who need to cut back on sodium intake. Sodium chloride, the predominant chemical in table salt, does in fact contain sodium.
>sodium chloride
Actually dude, it's salt
It just works
>sodium chloride has no sodium
It is abundant on earth, and sodium is very important for pretty much all ur cells.
So it tastes good and it's everywhere
look up Timbuktu and the history of salt mine.