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 | | Really, a salt mine is generally just a dried up sea bed, so I guess it all eventually comes from the same place, but if you were to read a salt industry magazine (and no doubt such things exist) they would tell you that the sources are different, so I will perpetuate the story. |
 | | Salt is essential to life, at least animal life: it regulates fluid balance and aids in movement, nerve impulses, digestion, and the healing of wounds. |
 | | Salt became an essential ingredient for its preservative qualities, and although we think of the modern diet as high in salt, we would apparently be shocked if we tasted beef, pork, or fish in the style of a few hundred years ago, for it was heavily salted to keep it from rotting. |
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