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

> I do only use it because it tastes so much better, but your argument here, along with
> everything remotely like it on the web about any type of health benefits of foods or
> chemicals or minerals, are just a matter of which side you want to believe. You read
> some article(s) that claim to prove or disprove benefits, and now think you are an
> expert. Well, you're not.

No, I'm not an expert. What I was trying to say is that pink salt is not as special or magic as some people claim. Making claims is easy. Past night a friend told me that he read that someone was saying that male humans tend to gather fat on the bellies due to an evolutionary reason: the largest the belly, the easiest it was to survive if someone pierced you with a knife. While being utterly stupid, you can put arguments against it but you can't really disprove it 100% unless you do a time trip.

However other kind of claims are easy to disprove. I'm not saying that negative ions are healthy or not, just that sites about "alternative health" claim that salt lamps emit them when the lightbulb heats them enough; three different experiments concluded that no ions of any kind were emitted no matter how powerful the lightbulb was. A site devoted exclusively to hymalayan salt claims that it contains 84 minerals "just like our mother earth". However all analysis show between 12 and 25 in different proportions, depending on which part was the salt mined. I think that the german health institute (exact name forgotten) can be trusted in this matter. Why? Because if they lied, in a week there would be a dozen of analysis showing otherwise. Moreover, "mother earth" doesn't contain 84 minerals, but thousands.

I was just trying to make a point that any fad suddenly is surrounded by lots of false claims, be it conspiracies, magic effects, hidden luck, or the ability to make you travel in time at will. With pink salt it was easy because it's very famous in certain circles as akin to the philosopher's stone, as to say. Those were just some examples. I didn't mention what they said about bathing in it, brush your teeth with it, and other ludicrous claims.

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