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To download a recording of the Rapadura Sugar & All Natural Seaweed Salt Teleseminar with Cyndi O'Meara, please click on the link below
Rapadura Sugar & Seaweed Salt Teleseminar with Cyndi O'Meara (mp3) (20845 KB)
Q&A from Teleseminar
Christine - Mapleton Qld
Q - If sea salt should be avoided because of mercury content, how come seaweed is OK? Wouldn't that have mercury taint too?
A - The sea salt absorbs the mercury because of the affinity it has for it, leaving the seaweed with none to minute amounts. The seaweed also has the iodine in it which helps as an antioxidant in the seaweed as well as a detoxifier of heavy metals such as mercury, lead, aluminium, bromide and fluoride. I got this information from Dr Donald Millers website.
Glenda - Mareeba
Q - What suggestions do you make for the elimination of candida?
A - To begin with stop using antibiotics unless it is life threatening and start fermenting all your foods, to get the good bacteria working over the bad.Your diet should be mainly nuts, seeds, meat, fruit, vegetables and eggs. Occasionally a grain but it must be whole and not white. In other words no bread, crackers, cookies, cakes until you have the candida under control. Once you have it under control then make sure you continue to ferment food or consume fermented foods like real yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut and foods as in Sally Fallons book Nourishing Traditions
Kristy - Perth
Q - Cyndi, are you truly sure Reverse Osmosis is the way to go? From my research, RO takes out just far too many good minearls (as well as the bad) from our water - it being the equivalent to drinking distilled water?
My water filter takes out the specific heavy minerals I want out(copper etc)but leave the naurally occuring minerals that our body needs. Could you please have a look at CL Services water filters? www.clservices.com.au Dr Igor Tabrizian recommends this system. Admittedly, it doesn;t take out 100% of the flouride. But the company is working on an additional filter to take out the remaining fluoride in the water.
Can you please discuss the water filters at some stage?
A - Hi Kristy I will take a look at it, I have a remineraliser in my water filter that compensates for that. Thanks for the lead to look at another water filter, I always learn.
Name Uknown
Q - What about replacement filters for the reverse osmosis?
I get them from PSI filters
Name Uknown
We buy rapadura sugar from Demeter and Honest to Goodness (both Church coops). They do it!
Sam
Q - Sancha inchi powder - how is a protein powder made 'properly'? What should I look out for in a protein powder?
Sancha Inchi Powder is a seed where the oil is taken out and the protein and other parts of the plant are left. We are trying to get it into the country but it is not easy.
Ruth - melbourne
Q - My grandson becomes very hyperactive and defiant when he has sugar. Would the rapadura prevent this?
A - You will have to look at his whole diet not just his sugar intake, but to take white sugar, raw sugar and refined man made sugars out of the diet would be a great start. Then add the rapadura on occasion and see what happens
Kristy - Perth
Q - Can you have too muuch dulse in your daily diet? Is it ok to add to bread, salad, everyday? For kids too?
I believe that when you look at the Japanese diet and the amount that they consume without problems and with added health I don’t think that you will overdose on the dulse.
Glenda - Mareeba
Q - How do we find out whether we are deficient in iodine?
A - There are blood tests and urine tests. You will have to ask your doctor for these. The thing is if you are eating foods high in iodine you should not have a deficiency but you must make sure you consume these foods. Seaweed, seafood and eggs
Shaun - Buderim, Sunshine Coast,
Q - Hi Cyndi, How much salt is too much? My family uses Himalayan chrystalised salt in alot of our cooking... tastes delicious... but can we use too much?
A - Your taste buds will tell you when you have too much.
Sue - Darwin
Q - Can you comment on pure, natural lake salt from Australia.
A - I don’t know who produces it and where it comes from so I can’t really comment
Debbie - Bonalbo
Q - Can you suggest a salt for someone who is allergic to iodine??
A I’ve been asked this many times, and I never understand how someone can be allergic to iodine. So I looked it up and this is what I found out.
An iodine allergy would be an immediate response to iodine on the skin or iodine injected in a contrast dye to take better x-rays. In general such exposure would cause immediate anaphylactic shock in those who are allergic. A patient might show very labored breathing and the tongue or throat might swell. Treatment is an injection with epinephrine to stop the histamine reaction.
An actual iodine allergy is extraordinarily rare. Some show signs of sensitivity to iodine with nausea, flushing, fever, or some labored breathing. In most cases, this sensitivity, particularly to injected iodine is labeled iodine allergy. This however, is something of a misnomer. Very few are actually allergic to iodine.
One of the reasons people feel they may have an iodine allergy is if they are allergic to shellfish or simply fish. Both shellfish and other fishes are a rich source of iodine, but often those allergic are not responding to the iodine in the fish.
However, if one has a shellfish allergy, or any allergy for that matter, there is a slightly increased risk of “iodine allergy.” As compared to the person without an allergy to shellfish, people allergic to shellfish may show about a five percent greater chance of showing “iodine allergy” symptoms. However similar studies show that having any allergies increases the chance of being sensitive to iodine.
There are a few instances where iodine should not be injected. Iodine must be flushed out of the kidneys. Where a person’s kidney function is significantly impaired, it may be difficult for the body to eliminate the iodine. Such people may show a reaction to the continued presence of iodine in their bodies, which is sometimes also labeled as “iodine allergy.” When kidney function is impaired, kidney function tests are required to be certain injecting iodine will not cause difficulty for the patient.
Nerida - Niagara Park NSW
Q - Are the nutrients or benefits of rapadura sugar compromised during cooking? If they are, is it even still more beneficial than say raw sugar?
A - Good point Nerida, all food is compromised with cooking although some is enhanced, but if we cook at a low heat then the loss of nutrients is far less.
Janet - Newcastle
Q - I understand that the dulse provides iodine. How much dulse or kelp would one need to consume in one day to receive an adequate amount of iodine?
A - I don’t have the answer to that but if you have it in your diet daily then you can be assured that you are getting more iodine than anyone else who doesn’t.
Audrey - Maleny
Q - How much fresh fruit a day can one eat? I have been having fresh fruit for three meals to avoid being tempted by other desserts but am wondering if I am having too much sugar that way?
A - I love fruit and when the summer season is in I would consume 6 or more a day. We have evolved to eat fruit, fruit is a healthy snack no matter what you hear from any other authorities out there. I’d rather see you eating fruit then donuts and biscuits.
Ranine - Gold Coast
Q - What do you think is the best sugar for making sweets with Cacao powder, coconut, nuts etc, I have been using Agave syrup ? I have lost 10 kilos,in 10 weeks, by not eating grains dairy and sugar. I am adicted to your Cyndi salt ! as I call it !
Q - Well done Ranine. It sounds like for your recipe that you need a liquid sweetener rather then a sugar compound. Rapadura will work if you can get away with it, but other wise real maple and raw honey may change the taste a little.
Sandra - Central Coast NSW
Q - For someone with Candida it is important to avoid sugar. Is Stevia the best sugar alternative? Does it have health benefits?
A - Stevia is a wonderful herb, I love to chew it. I have an aversion to the white powder because it reminds me of the taste of aspartame, but I believe the liquid is OK. Because I haven’t looked into it completely re the process to make it I’m a little unsure of its quality. You can grow stevia in your garden and I know some wine makers that put the herb into the wine instead of sugar
Sandra - Central Coast
Q - Is Himalayan Crystal Salt (with it's 84 Minerals & trace elements) beneficial in one's diet and how should it be used on a daily basis? Does it also provide the iodine?
A - Hopefully I answered that in the call. The iodine is in the dulse that I put in my Himalayan salt which you can purchase from my website by 500gms.
janie - england
Q - Hi Cyndi, please could you explain the differences between rapadura, jaggery, palm sugar, sucanat and other natural sugars? What are the health risks of zylitol, maltilol and other sugar extracts?
A - Hi Janie, good to hear from you, the following website explains a lot about the sugars http://quirkycooking.blogspot.com/p/refined-sugar-vs-natural-sweeteners.html As for zylitol and malitol I'm don't like them due to the processing, and I don't have enough info to let you know the pros and cons of the sugars. Give me the real stuff any day.
Jay - Brisbane
Q - If the flouride, chlorine and bromide inhibat iodine use in the body then how can giving your body more iodine help, when the body is inhibated from utilising it?
A - Hopefully I answered this in the call. The more iodine you have the more competitive it is to get into the receptor sites ahead of the other halogens.
Tracey - Brisbane
Q - Have you read the book Sweet Poison by David Gillespie? I would love to hear your views on this as he recommends no sugar at all.
A - I haven’t read it but I have listened to an hour interview on the Conversation Hour with him. He is very much against fructose and anything in it. I agree with him when it is man made or separated from its natural counterparts. Fruit has fructose but I would never take that off my menu.
Roz - Townsville QLD
Q - I recently attended some cooking classes run by a Chef and they believe that salt is only used for seasoning and shouldn;t need to be used for flavouring food as the natural flavour should be enough. Would we be receiving our required levels if only using prior to cooking and if we again used after cooking for say more flavour/health is that too much. Is there a daily limit, before too much is dangerous for your health?
A - Things are made too hard, everyone is afraid of food as we’ve been told that salt, fat and sugar is bad. But let’s put some common sense in this whole equation. If you put too much salt on a food you won’t want to eat it. That means you are consuming too much. There are some foods I don’t want to put salt in because I don’t think it needs it. I believe that bread needs salt otherwise it tastes like nothing. I also believe some grains need salt to enhance their flavour. I’m never going to say that eating a TBS of salt a day is bad, because there are some people who sweat so much they need it. I have a friend if she gets hay fever consumes 1/4 tsp salt in water and the results are instant. We have to stop counting calories, weighing fats, salts and sugars and proteins and start getting back to some common sense with how much salt is ok to eat. Give the body what it needs with real foods and nothing from a package and it will give you all the energy and healthy you want.
Rayna - Sunshine Coast
Q - I have had my thyroid removed due to thyroid cancer - is there some risk in taking Nascent Iodine or natural Iodine products eg your salt product? Will this affect my medication or will it enable me to cut out medication altogether?
A - This is a real bone of contention in the medical and scientific community. We talked about this in the webinar in length and
Hopefully you know that my point of view is that we need iodine even when we have no thyroid. The seaweed salt will provide you with small daily iodine doses for your body to store and use or excrete if it doesn’t need it.
I struggle to take supplements unless they are from food. The other day I found out that all Vitamin D in supplements comes from lambs wool mixed with an oil. This disturbs me as I wouldn’t normally eat lambs wool.
Sharon - Redcliffe
Q - Just recently told I have Hashimoto disease and a couple of people have said I have to take Iodine. When I look online there is mixed articles about it. Also I have read to eliminate gluten and sugar to help it. Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you.
Good to hear from you Sharon, Hashimoto’s is a thyroid problem but that is not where the story ends. Your thyroid is connected to all your hormones and sexual organs, you cannot just look at one thing. Yes there is a lot of conflicting info on the internet re iodine. What you need to do is nourish the whole of the body with what it needs, including iodine. Allopathic health care (medicine) looks at the body as a machine with parts that they seem to think are not connected to other parts of the body. When you get rid of toxicity, change the environment and change your diet then the body starts to heal itself no matter what the ailment. Remembering that we achieve health via physical, mental and emotional health and chemical health and all must be addressed.
Debbie - Gold Coast
Q - When will the super greens be available and how much? Can you please give ideas on ways to take/use the super greens. Thanks
Hi Debbie - I did address this in the talk and I can’t give you a definite and when the greens come out I will let you know how to use them. In the mean time keep putting them in your real food and fruit smoothies.
Sue - Perth
Q - Is organic palm sugar just as good? If you have fluid retention, should you restrict sea salt?
A - I don’t know how the palm sugar is produced but I know how the rapadura is made. I have used the palm sugar when I was unable to get rapadura before I started putting it on the changing habits website.
Fluid retention is not just about salt. Hormones are a big factor and so reducing your salt is not the whole answer. If you are
following the CHCL book which makes the changes you need in order for your body to be healthy, then you have started giving the body what it needs for harmony with fluids, hormones, cholesterol etc. Remember the body is intelligent as long as you reduce toxicity and increase nutrition.
>> Bronwyn - Tanawha
Q - Dear Cyndi 1. Can you guarantee that your seaweed salt is mercury free? 2. Would its daily use be roughly equivalent to the three drops per day of Lugol's Solution I currently take for iodine deficiency? Thanks for the opportunity to benefit from your knowledge and experience. I really appreciate it.
Hi Bronwyn, the salt has no methyl mercury as it has never been in the ocean, most seaweed has it’s own defense mechanism against heavy metal toxicity. I have asked our suppliers if they can give me a 0% mercury level in the dulse, and here is their answer.
a) our Dulse is harvested from the icy clear waters of underpopulated Maritime provinces (not Europe, China or Japan)
b) Canadian government regulations require our supplier to test for human consumption (including heavy metals) prior to export
c) Australian Customs/Quarantine conducts random testing on import re: human consumption (including heavy metals)
d) by buying Certified Organic, you are ensured that a product meets their stringent standards, especially re:heavy metals
Fyi: This applies to all our seaweeds, and is why we only supply Certified Organic from pristine places eg. Tasmanian Wakame.
So they don't say that is guaranteed not to have mercury, and therefore I can't either. It was the best we could find when we were sourcing the dulse. And that's all we can do these days, our very best to source food that is free from toxins and high in nutrition.
Sarah - Tamborine
Q - I regulartly have low blood pressure, and have been thinking about mixing a small amount of the Seaweed Salt in water to drink. Is it safe to do this every day. How much salt can we have daily and it still be good for our body?
A - 1/4 tsp seaweed salt into water would be a wonderful benefit for you. Many people do this if they have allergies or hay fever to stop the histamine reaction.
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