Posted on 02/24/2005 11:05:17 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
Its highly amusing how these food nazis keep on harping on this subject when studies have been coming out showing no link between hypertension and salt intake. ITS GENETIC!
I have a friend who's been on a salt limited diet for the last 10 years and it did not help his blood pressure one bit. In fact, he dang near had a heart attack when his Dr. told him that his problem was not so much diet as heredity
Here’s a comment for the CSPI loonies. Salt can’t be all that bad. Animals will travel miles in the wild to get to saltlicks. In this part of the world, cattle owners put saltblocks out in the pastures for their cows. My horses loved rock salt as much as they loved sugar. ‘splain that you bunch of phonies.
Does anyone out there know if we the taxpayers in these FDA lawsuits, pay for the costs of both sides like they do in the EPA and endangered species cases? I'm getting sick of our government becoming a lawyer employment agency.
KNOCK IT OFF!!!!
Very few things in life actually need to be regulated. This went TOO far long before fat, sugar, salt, nicotine....
Screw off. I like my salt and nobody lives forever.
Salt is not a deadly ingredient for 99% of the population. Why regulate it for the 1%? We don't regulate p-nut butter and there are many with deathly allergies. What about sugar? Think of the high persentage of folks with diabetes. How stupid. Just move somewhere where they agree to do this for you and leave the rest of us alone.
SALT POLICE!!
I'd forgotten about the picture on the containers. But, I would guess pervert trial lawyers would be itching for a chance to "sue the pants" of that little girl, huh?
Blatant marketing to children. Sue the hell out of 'em.
There was a major article about salt in Science magazine a few years ago. It said that the evidence for the negative effects of salt was appearing weaker all the time. It had got to the point where even very large studies could not find health problems that could be definitely ascribed to salt. But as this happened, the scientists who had staked their careers on proving the evils of salt were getting more and more militant in their demands to place controls on this dangerous substance.
Yes it is.......
Some folks, like myself need gobs of salt to maintain our electrolyte balance. If I were to cut back, I would fall on my face on the first hot day of summer.
Kidney function, sweating ability and a horde of other things have much to do with how much salt everyone needs, and no one person is the same as another.
Same thing with cholesterol, IMHO.
From my cold, dead hands! How are we supposed to get our daily allotment of iodine? No salt -- more goiters!
I read once that the last straw was when the king levied a per-tree tax on one's property.
This group is a very vocal supporter of smoking bans........all they are trying to do is destroy the hospitality industry any way they can.
My salt skaker is right next to the beer dispenser, which I rest my pistol on, in my SUV.
Morton's adds calcium silicate and dextrose along with iodine to pure sodium chloride; the calcium silicate keeps the salt from clumping by reducing salt's hygroscopic nature.
The serving size suggested on the label is 1/4 teaspoon or 25% of the FDA recommended 1 teaspoon per day for a 2,000 calorie diet.
CSPI is trying to pry open a backdoor to the vaults of the big food-processers with this suit.
Courtesy of another freeper the last time the nutjobs reared their ugly heads:
http://www.cspiscam.com/
But where do you keep your cigarettes?
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