MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: 249 I'll crack you like a plumber's ass (nt)

Like all fads, suddenly people start telling the most absurd stuff about them. In this case:
* It contains 84 minerals (very very false, it's about two dozens and only ten in meaninful quantities; that claim was made by someone who started to sold it as "better than the fountain of youth" during several "alternative health" seminaries for outrageous prices before himalayan salt was widely known).
* When hot, it emits healthy negative ions (some experiments with salt lamps were done to assert this claim, but they don't emit anything except infrared radiation).
* It's the only true sea salt. All other salt marketed as "sea salt" is basically a scam (supported with some retorted logic full of fallacies; besides it's not sea salt but mineral salt, more akin to the normal table salt than to the real sea salt from natural evaporation of salty water).
* It's up to 600 million years old (ages range from as low as 50 to about 300 million years old, can't be carbon dated).
* It's so much better for your health because it has stuff that normal salt doesn't have (you can get any of the minerals from pink salt almost from any normal food; special cases are too much iodine, which nowadays is hard to have a deficit of, and fluorides, which pink salt contains in excess too, resulting in it being actually harmful if you already take enough fluorides through other sources).

But I guess mr. Smit wants it for the superior taste, not for purported, imaginary effects. I guess that after taking a crap he gently pours some ancient pink salt over the fresh feces. Just as the sumo fighters throw salt before starting a fight; it's just a ritual for purification.

Here's the one I have at home. I'm not showing the other side because it doesn't say "250 millions of years" ^_^

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