[Rokurota]

I don’t think the argument is really any individual’s choice. If someone believes low sat is helping, then by all means go low salt. The real question is whether the gov’t should regulate salt. That answer should be clear.

[fr_freak]

I don’t think the argument is really any individual’s choice. If someone believes low sat is helping, then by all means go low salt. The real question is whether the gov’t should regulate salt. That answer should be clear.

The answer should be clear, but even to many "conservative" people here on FR, it isn't. They argue over whether salt, or some other substance, is good or bad for you, and if they conclude it is bad for you, then they want the all-powerful nanny government to step in and do something about the horrors of salt consumption. Very few, even here, ask whether it is the government's place to do such a thing. That is why we are doomed.

[TheBattman]

I am in no way in favor of giving the government authority to tell us how much salt we can use or have in our foods. I don’t mind so much a requirement to have to put the sodium content on products. But telling me I cannot have sodium, or that the food industry can’t use salt... that is a problem.