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Bamboo salt - the salt of life to solve mineral deficiency Minerals are components of our body cells that perform very extensive and important roles in biological activities. They are involved in vitalizing various enzymes and vitamins, as well as controlling hormones. Minerals also help the excretion of waste and the detoxification metabolism in our body. It can be said that minerals are directly related to the health and diseases of the human body more than any other nutrients. Soil pollution caused by agricultural chemicals caused serious mineral deficiencies in food, and that has become one of the major causes of modern lifestyle-related diseases like cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, etc. This book examines the role of minerals in the human body and notes salt as a material which is rich in minerals. This book also investigates why salt has abundant minerals and what the nature of salt is. In addition, you will also see how the characteristics of the minerals in salt changes overtime during the manufacturing process of bamboo salt, in which salt is put into a bamboo joint and burned and melted at high temperatures, through experiments. This book also investigates the efficacy and the characteristics of bamboo salt with several theses on bamboo salt. It’s the author’s sincere hope that this book can help readers understand the basic characteristics of salt and bamboo salt, and can open an opportunity for academic circles to view bamboo salt from a different point of view and inspire further research on bamboo salt. I also hope that the readers of this book will realize that the idea that ‘eating insipid food is healthier,’ is a social misconception and that they’ ll realize that ‘eating food seasoned with quality salt is healthy.’ 4 4