On another note, I found an article about new "non-stick" salt in the NY Times. Apparently, by adding an amino acid to the already poisonous and unhealthy common processed salt, it won't clump together due to it's attraction of humidity; therefore it can be stored in otherwise unsuitable environments.
From the New York Times, 12/9/2006
Perhaps someday they can remove the added flouride, which is a known neurotoxin and completely unnecessary. Chances are, if you live in a municipal area, flouride is being injected into your tap water too.Everyone knows the havoc that humidity wreaks on salt. You pick up a saltshaker, tip it upside down and — nothing.
The problem is molecular. Salt grains are cube shaped, so it doesn’t take much to get them to stack together like Legos. Salt producers have created nonsticking salt before by adding chemicals to prevent binding. But this year, in the July issue of Crystal Growth and Design, a team of Indian scientists announced that they had discovered a better way to attack the problem: they produced salt that is round.
To accomplish this, they added the amino acid glycine to a pan of brine and then let the salty liquid evaporate. The resulting crystals were shaped like dodecahedrons: 12-sided grains. In this nearly spherical form, the grains no longer stacked like bricks but like oranges in a sack. The researchers put some of the round salt into a container, left it for a year and found that it still poured freely.
The glycine has a side effect: it makes the salt slightly sweeter. Pushpito K. Ghosh, one of the lead scientists on the project, claims he can’t detect it — “And I’ve eaten a lot of it!” — but he suspects that chefs might.
"There are also over 30 animal studies showing that fluoride is a neurotoxin which reduces learning and memory. Essentially, fluoride makes you a bit less intelligent."
That may somewhat explain what's wrong with some people.... ;-)
