Live Well with Leonie

What kind of salt do you use?

Does it matter?

Sure does. Not only does the ubiquitous “table salt” have zilch nutrients and is bleached and contaminated with plastics, it’s also free-flowing and it shouldn’t be. Salt exposed to air clumps, the water in the air causes it to slightly liquify - hence the clumping.

When I was a kid, salt shakers had rice in them to help absorb that moisture - in the tropics, didn’t help that much.

Table salt today doesn’t do that which means it’s had something undeclared added.

I use Celtic salt and Murray River salt, occasionally Himalayan salt but that I know is a limited resource.

So yeah, what do you use? And please do eat salt. It’s absolutely necessary for good health.

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Would you like a little chicken in those chicken nuggets?

I gotta say, at the risk of being kids-are-picky-eaters-shamed, it does make me angry when I see kid’s menu choices that are just crap food. Nuggets and chips; fish fingers and chips, and so on. It’s just horrible foods.

There’s nothing nutritious about those choices, they’re full of additives, preservatives, the worst kind of carb coatings, toxic seed/vegetable oils and, as for the chicken or fish they’re supposedly made of… 😂… don’t kid yourself, there ain’t much in them.

So all they’re being fed is ghastly carbs and fake food. Then folks wonder why their kids start to play up, get moody, can’t sleep, have upset stomachs, skin rashes, weight problems, and so on.

Ok, I know kids don’t have well-developed palates but the only way they get one is by being fed good, nutritious, healthy food… dare I say it, naturally tasty food.

I remember I had a high school friend who’s mother wouldn’t allow her or her sister to eat lollies, chocolates etc. She’d come to school with dried fruit like apricots and some nuts. I and my other friends felt sorry for her.

Fast forward a few years and, while we all got the usual hormonal skin issues of pimples and worse, she and her sister had lovely skin. They were both a healthy weight - mind you, it was pre-1980s and the fat-is-bad-sugar-is-fab change in our western diets that came in then.

I look back now in envy that I wasn’t likewise restricted. Their mum sure knew what was healthy.

Less chicken, more crumb? What the labels reveal The golden coating can make it difficult to judge how much chicken is inside. Image credit: Evgeniya Davydova / Pexels

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Lots of people suffer from fatty liver disease without knowing it. If you’re carrying extra weight around your middle, chances are you have a fatty liver.

Many think a fatty liver is caused by too much alcohol and, while that can certainly be a contributor, it’s more likely to be caused by a diet high in starchy carbs and sugars, inflammatory oils like seed and vegetable oils.

Here’s some tips for helping with fatty liver disease.

Fatty liver affects one in three adults: Study says these drinks may help What you eat and drink could play an important role in liver health as rates of liver disease continue rising. Credit: Centre for Ageing Better/Unsplash