Individuals just beginning a vegetarian diet are often prone to season their foods strongly. In these there is likely to be delayed excretion, due to the inhibiting effect upon the kidneys, so that they are forced to rise several times a night to void urine. As the salt is eliminated from the diet the delayed action of the kidneys gradually ceases, nocturnal diuresis diminishes and day-time urination increases.

This same frequency of urination is often seen in those who adopt a vegetarian diet and exclude salt therefrom. Here the explanation seems to be that the increased intake of bases permits the body to begin the work of excreting the accumulated salt. The frequent urination continues until much of the stored sodium chloride is eliminated.

The tears of the salt user are salty and are irritating to the eyes. The tears of the non-user are not salty and are not irritating. It cannot be possible that nature intended that the tears, which are intended to lubricate and cleanse the eyes, should be irritating to these. Salty tears must be regarded as part of the process of eliminating salt from the body.

The excretion of common salt is a slow business and in persons who have habitually consumed quantities of this crystal, months or years of abstinence from its use must elapse before the deposits of salt are excreted.