THE WAR ON SALT <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HqqQ-3tTZig&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HqqQ-3tTZig&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> THANK GOD! Just like smoking and transfats, the salt laws will not be far behind. Save me from salt!!! New York restaurants urged to cut back on salt NEW YORK — New York City is pushing restaurants and food packagers to cut back on the use of salt as part of a national health campaign aimed at reducing premature deaths from high blood pressure. The city's health department on Monday set a goal of reducing salt consumption by 25 percent over five years, which it estimated would cut salt intake nationally by 20 percent and prevent many premature deaths. Americans consume twice the recommended daily limit of salt, most of it in packaged or prepared foods, "causing widespread high blood pressure and placing millions at risk of heart attack and stroke," the department said. An estimated 23,000 people die a year in New York City from heart attacks and stroke, and more than 800,000 deaths nationwide, it said. "Consumers can always add salt to food, but they can?t take it out," Thomas Farley, New York City health commissioner, said. "If we can reduce the sodium levels in packaged and restaurant foods, we will give consumers more choice about the amount of salt they eat, and reduce their risk of heart disease and stroke in the process," he said. A number of other cities, states and health organizations have joined the city's National Salt Reduction Initiative, which spent the last year in consultations with food industry leaders to develop salt targets for a comprehensive set of foods. A similar initiative in Britain has resulted in a 40 percent reduction in salt in some food products, the health department said. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iCRzh2DCQAILLVqY7zotBE9Z1Acw
I think that's the point he was trying to make. People can use a saltshaker to add however much they want, so maybe restaurants shouldn't put so much in to begin with.
By all means, Shovel Face, eat all the unhealthy garbage you want. In fact, I'll start you off with a carton of cigs and a cheeseburger. Here's to your health, friend.
Eat all unhealthy that you want. It's only a problem when you eat unhealthy yet want cheap/free health insurance.
An unhealthy society is bad for everyone. Allowing restaurants to prepare food that is unknowingly *that* unhealthy for people is borderline for me. I'm all for personal responsibility and choices, but at the end of the day, we're gonna have to take it on the chin with this one before things start getting better. I do not agree with stopping the "unhealthy monster" at the end of its chain of events (enduser purchases, etc), rather, it should be fixed early on... It's almost the same as not teaching kids proper sex education, and then putting restrictions on their sex life when they become an adult... by then, it is too late. We need to start making healthy living a priority in this country, one way or another. Once people start demanding healthy lifestyle choices, the problem will go away on its own and we won't have to nanny-state it.
Free-marketeers have been making this same argument for sometime now, and it's always been alarmist and poorly-thought out. The first time I saw this precise argument was on an internet forum about 5 years ago, posted by another free-marketeer. It wasn't relevant then either.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg made news this week by calling on restaurants and food manufacturers to voluntarily reduce the amount of salt in their food by 25 percent over the next five years - sparking complaints from critics that it's one more example of the mayor promoting a nanny state. Not surprisingly, Bloomberg's initiative drew the attention of Mayor Gavin Newsom, who has also been accused of turning San Francisco into a nanny state with his policies including banning cigarette sales in drugstores, slapping a 20-cent fee on cigarette packs and banning trans fats in restaurants. "I can't cede that title," Newsom joked of Bloomberg being dubbed the Nanny Mayor. So would he consider going after sodium next? "We're looking at it," is as committal as he would get. He went on to say now that cigarettes are out of Walgreens, he is asking the drugstore chain to withdraw an application for liquor licenses at 34 of its stores around the city. The chain wants to sell beer and wine in mostly low-income, high-crime areas, he said. "We don't need another chain store getting into the liquor business," said Newsom, himself part of the liquor business through his PlumpJack restaurant and winery company. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/12/BA1S1BH7H8.DTL
Yeah, what really sucked was when they put fluoride in the water supply. such an infringement on our liberties that the founding fathers promoted. People should be free to get cavities just like in the old days. In a libertarian world people should be free to get unneeded cavities. If you don't have the money for fluoride treatments,you deserve cavities you losers. Note to libertarians. Just drink bottled water like rich guys that you aspire to be. It doesn't have fluoride and then you are free to go to the dentist frequently for fillings.
Prince hates lots of salt on his food -- hates it... but Prince is an overrated musician so who even cares.
I just want the ability to buy a can of soup or tv dinner that has less than a billion percent sodium... that is edible and affordable. I get that too much salt is unhealthy, but for me the processed stuff just tastes too salty. Anyone ever eat a "hungry man" tv deal? Disgusting.
I think all the girls should just drop low. Put their hands on the grounds.. and just shake it like a salt shaker. That is all.
I almost never add salt to anything I eat. I use a little bit if I'm cooking something, and have it out for anyone who wants it, but about 30 years ago I figured out too much salt wasn't a good thing. It is in just about all processed food in huge amounts. Just read the labels. Order fries from almost any fast food joint? They're covered with salt. I ask for them salt free and they taste much better, IMO. Not related, really, but my BP was 116/70 yesterday.
