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All animals require salt or their BP drops very low and they die.

CE Grim MD>In commonsalt@yahoogroups.com, "kgvp.rm"
<southafricaninsideandout@...> wrote:
>
> Dear Moderator,
>
> Please can you explain how it is that salt and bread are the same word
> in ancient Hebrew. According to the Eden story, we ate a normal diet
> like other animals until our fall, and our diet changed then to become
> bread, seeds and grains subjected to fire. That salt provides the
> spark for fire is interesting too, and that it is the source of the
> word slave. Of course we are slaves, what other animal HAS to have
> salt? What other animal alters almost everything it puts in its mouth
> by subjecting it to fire? What other animal is quite as ill, or
> obsessed with food, as the human? We may call our diet traditional,
> but we may not call it normal.
>
> But the question is about the link between bread and salt, please.
>
> Katie
>