Whatever obozo says, I do the opposite. Works well for everything!
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.”
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
We need salt in the Midwest. It’s how we get our iodine. The Obamasses are such ignorant busy bodies.
Celtic Sea Salt is great for the human body.
They can go pound it.
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).
Actually, after reflection, that may be the correct link. It’s a fine funeral song.
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.
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!
I'll have mine with extra salt, please.
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....
Help us Michele Kenobi....you’re our only hope!
Somewhere I remember when you lose your saltiness you lose your ability to be useful....
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.
Time to stock up on salt before the feds drive the cost up to $150 a pound.
Thanks for the ping!
People on the Left Coast don’t have access to that should the government ban salt.
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.
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