{"id":5012,"date":"2013-05-27T16:19:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T06:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=5012"},"modified":"2013-05-27T16:19:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T06:19:22","slug":"salt-and-survivalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2013\/05\/salt-and-survivalism-5012.html","title":{"rendered":"Salt and Survivalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forget what they tell you about <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Salt\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">salt<\/a> being bad for you &#8211; the jury is still out. And that&#8217;s only regarding<em> too much<\/em> salt.<\/p>\n<p>In ancient times salt was a valuable commodity! Ever wonder why?<\/p>\n<p>There are many good reasons for storing salt in your prepping supplies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Preserve meat<\/strong> &#8211; when your fridge no longer works<\/li>\n<li><strong>Health<\/strong> &#8211; we need salt (dietary sodium) in our diets to some degree<\/li>\n<li><strong>Taste<\/strong> &#8211; any little improvement will be well received<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cleaning<\/strong> &#8211; cleaning things (abrasive), or brushing your teeth (with baking soda)<\/li>\n<li>Melting snow and ice<\/li>\n<li>Deterring ants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivallife.com\/2013\/04\/08\/27-more-reasons-to-stock-salt\/\">Survival Life<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget what they tell you about salt being bad for you &#8211; the jury is still out. And that&#8217;s only regarding too much salt.<br \/>\nIn ancient times salt was a valuable commodity! Ever wonder why?<br \/>\nThere are many good reasons for storing salt in your prepping supplies:<\/p>\n<p>Preserve meat &#8211; when your fridge no longer works<br \/>\nHealth &#8211; we need salt (dietary sodium) in our diets to some degree<br \/>\nTaste &#8211; any little improvement will be well received<br \/>\nCleaning &#8211; cleaning things (abrasive), or brushing your teeth (with baking soda)<br \/>\nMelting snow and ice<br \/>\nDeterring ants<\/p>\n<p>More at Survival Life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survivalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5013,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012\/revisions\/5013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->