Salt, Nature's Fifth Element

"The sacredness & dignity of salt! This mineral is like unto the four elements... earth, air, fire & water. So universal, so necessary to life, it is the fifth element." Jean de Marcounille, Paris 1584. Salt so important to man because it is a constituent of many parts of the body especially the blood, the lymph, the digestive juices. In the blood stream salt furthers good circulation & heart action. In the first part of the book, John Heinerman, Ph.D covers the historical significance & health benefits of salt from man's earliest days through modern society. But all salt is not created equal. Gary Anderson, an undergraduate in oceanography & geological marine sciences in the second part of the book talks about the most nutritious, lowest in sodium Brittany Natural Sea Salt from Brittany, France which is Certified Kosher & which is hand harvested in the true Celtic tradition, using wooden tools to avoid metal transferance. Welcome to the first book about sea salt since 1948, by Ocean Press. Order Direct 800-903-SALT. Paperback retails for $9.95, 100 pages, glossy cover, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2.