A lot of people report trouble with ham, I think it's the salt content? And if I gained 2 pounds of water weight, I don't weigh myself, and might not notice?

On the other hand, I have no trouble with salt. I crave it, sprinkle freely, and don't notice it having any ill effects. The nitrites are actually higher in celery, so I don't know why they carry on about that when every dieter in the last few decades carries around little bags of cut up celery... apparently it's only red meat that is deadly? Seems absurd.

Here's the NOVA scoring scale and here's the results:



of eating processed food. Ham is cured using a really old process. Not as far back as fire, but pork of all kinds is the meat highest in thiamine, which powers the mitochondria.

These experiments really show the unexpected effect of "destroying the matrix" of a natural food. CICO? Smashed here.