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The Obama Administration Wants Americans To Stop Eating So Much Salt
The Daily Caller ^ | June 17, 2014 | Tristyn Bloom

Posted on 06/18/2014 6:07:09 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The FDA, perhaps still smarting from the recent artisanal cheese kerfuffle, is setting its sights on a bigger target: salt.

“The current level of [sodium] consumption is really higher than it should be,” said FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg. That’s why they’re preparing “voluntary guidelines” for the food industry encouraging them to stay below certain salt levels.

While the guidelines will initially be voluntary, health groups are lobbying for mandatory standards — lobbying that will only grow more intense if businesses refuse to comply once the standards are released. If businesses don’t go light on the salt “then FDA should start a process of mandatory limits,” said Center for Science in the Public Interest Executive Director Michael Jacobson. (RELATED: Do our diets have to be progressive too?)

The health effects of reduced sodium diets are hotly debated, and in fact low sodium consumption may even threaten the health of those with congestive heart failure, according to a May 2013 study by the Institute of Medicine — the same NGO that’s been pressuring the FDA to crack down on salty food.

Health and science writer Gary Taubes, writing for The New York Times in 2012, explained that “With nearly everyone focused on the supposed benefits of salt restriction, little research was done to look at the potential dangers. But four years ago, Italian researchers began publishing the results from a series of clinical trials, all of which reported that, among patients with heart failure, reducing salt consumption increased the risk of death. Those trials have been followed by a slew of studies suggesting that reducing sodium to anything like what government policy refers to as a ‘safe upper limit’ is likely to do more harm than good.”

The FDA is determined to press forward despite the ambiguous relationship between salt consumption and health, saying that Americans’ sodium levels are “of huge interest and concern” and that they hope to release the guidelines soon.

Former NYC Mayor and notorious “public health” warrior Michael Bloomberg was a trendsetter in this regard, having launched the National Salt Reduction Initiative, “a nationwide partnership to reduce sodium in the U.S. food supply,” in 2008–not that that’s stopped him from being liberal with the shaker on his own food.

As NYT science columnist John Tierney noted way back in 2009, regulatory policy based on unsettled science “makes test subjects of us all.”


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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Salt We Misjudged You

NYT article discussed on FR.

Make DAMN sure you get enough salt, or the lack thereof may kill you. Serious.

Screw this administration, they’re now trying to kill you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZCj_3MA15o


41 posted on 06/18/2014 6:47:21 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Want to keep your doctor? Remove your Democrat Senator.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

We need salt in the Midwest. It’s how we get our iodine. The Obamasses are such ignorant busy bodies.


42 posted on 06/18/2014 6:47:22 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Celtic Sea Salt is great for the human body.


43 posted on 06/18/2014 6:48:27 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Sorry wrong link:

Here is the FR link:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2891182/posts?page=1


44 posted on 06/18/2014 6:48:52 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Want to keep your doctor? Remove your Democrat Senator.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

They can go pound it.


45 posted on 06/18/2014 6:48:53 PM PDT by BulletBobCo
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To: VerySadAmerican

My mother was the favorite cook at the nursing home where she worked. The reason, salt (which she wasn’t suppose to use by the rules).


46 posted on 06/18/2014 6:49:36 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Where is your thinking cap? The one you were issued in elementary school.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Actually, after reflection, that may be the correct link. It’s a fine funeral song.


47 posted on 06/18/2014 6:51:30 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Want to keep your doctor? Remove your Democrat Senator.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks


Whatever obozo says, I do the opposite. Works well for everything!
48 posted on 06/18/2014 6:56:03 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Former NYC Mayor and notorious “public health” warrior Michael Bloomberg was a trendsetter in this regard,

That's enough right there to cause me want to choke down that entire 2 lb box of Morton Kosher Salt that I can see from here on our dining room table.

Bloomie has the distinction of being in the very first line up of public "service" entities who I heartily dislike and wish would just quietly go away to somewhere so far from a TV camera or microphone that I would never ever again have to see or hear them blathering away on TV or any other type of communication devise. Other than that I don't wish him any harm.

49 posted on 06/18/2014 6:57:05 PM PDT by epow ("In the beginning GOD created the heavens and earth" Genesis 1:1)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I work outside in the middle of the AZ desert. My salt intake is likely more than most folks. I have to replace it somehow. Obama can kiss my ass and keep his grubby hands of my damn salt shaker!


50 posted on 06/18/2014 6:57:53 PM PDT by sean327 (God created all men equal, then some become Marines!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I'll have mine with extra salt, please.

51 posted on 06/18/2014 7:01:30 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: txrefugee

The butler at Michael Moore’s mansion doesn’t think there’s a problem with salt.... John Kerry’s in house chef adds a little Truffle oil to compensate for less salt. He’s suggested it to Michael Moore’s staff....


52 posted on 06/18/2014 7:05:25 PM PDT by GOPJ (#2 reply spot RESERVED for Tokyo Rose comments: "nothing works - give up - it's all hopeless".)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Help us Michele Kenobi....you’re our only hope!


53 posted on 06/18/2014 7:09:50 PM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (I am the Tea Party bully who took Mitch McConnell's milk money.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Somewhere I remember when you lose your saltiness you lose your ability to be useful....


54 posted on 06/18/2014 7:12:16 PM PDT by Anti-Hillary (Soon everything in America will be "free", except it's people.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Geeze, now I have to STOCK UP on salt too, before it’s banned. It’s bad enough having to buy a supply of plastic bags to go shopping.


55 posted on 06/18/2014 7:16:37 PM PDT by BobL
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Time to stock up on salt before the feds drive the cost up to $150 a pound.


56 posted on 06/18/2014 7:16:39 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The Obamas' Black skin has morphed into Teflon thanks to the Obama Media)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Thanks for the ping!


57 posted on 06/18/2014 7:20:47 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Put a bottle of these in your Survival Kit


58 posted on 06/18/2014 7:23:59 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The Obamas' Black skin has morphed into Teflon thanks to the Obama Media)
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To: Joe 6-pack

People on the Left Coast don’t have access to that should the government ban salt.


59 posted on 06/18/2014 7:26:35 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read newspapers you are misinformed)
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To: SkyDancer
First light bulbs now salt? Start hording salt. If you leave near an ocean or are close to one, no problem.

Before long the Feds will make it a crime to ingest any salt water while swimming in the ocean.

They will determine if it is intentional just to get around the ban on salt and will punish us accordingly.


60 posted on 06/18/2014 7:28:06 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The Obamas' Black skin has morphed into Teflon thanks to the Obama Media)
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