This must be why my wife's doctors have urged her to avoid virtually all deli meats. She is subject to daily migraines and nitrites are a known trigger, probably due to their vasodilation function.
Maybe I should be looking for a vaso-constrictor substance? - Steve G --- On Sun, 4/11/10, Harold MacDonald <[email protected]> wrote: From: Harold MacDonald <[email protected]> Subject: CS>CS: NitrATE and NitrITE To: "Silver list" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, April 11, 2010, 4:55 PM My experience lately has been the impossibility of finding Deli-meats ,ie Bacon,Ham,etc. preserved with NITRATE, which does have some benefical attributes.However, NITRITE is what I do find, and that one is highly detrimental to ones health.

