Posted on 03/15/2023 2:07:34 PM PDT by Mariner
Seven million people could die of diseases linked to excessive salt consumption before the decade's end unless governments immediately pass tighter restrictions on salt, a report by the World Health Organization warned this month. Its authors are calling on governments to implement stricter sodium targets for food, mark salt content more clearly on packaging and boost public awareness of the health dangers posed by eating a lot of salty food.
"Excessive sodium intake is the top risk factor for an unhealthy diet, and it is responsible for 1.8 million deaths each year," said Francesco Branca, director of the WHO's Department of Nutrition for Health and Development.
Eating too much salt is one of the causes of cardiovascular disease, which kills an estimated 17.9 million people each year, according to the WHO. It can also lead to strokes, which kill 5 million people each year globally - and other serious medical conditions.
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Everyone can consume salt to taste and have no problem. Just so long as they are cooking from scratch. Hell, even the saltiest popcorn is no issue.
It’s the sodium in prepared foods that is killing them.
“Cook from scratch, it ain’t that difficult. Problem solved.”
100% correct.
all right...this kind of begging question is a common leftist ploy and not worthy of any conservative, but i’ll answer it on this forum.
even too much water is after all poisonous. salt, apart from being a gift of God and one of the necessaries for life, should be consumed in sufficient quantity to maintain health in an individual, as should all foods. certainly, imo, there should be no authority or so called ‘expert’ establishing or worse mandating the right level of salt (or any thing we take into our bodies) for any individual. the ‘right’ level is an individual decision. advice from others is of course free and worth as much.
such health and nutrition experts’ advice in the last 50 years has led to our healthy and vigorous children becoming obese and unfit for even mild to moderate activity in my memory. and i’m only in my late 60’s. imo, the same ‘self help’ advice that has rendered our youth unfit and out of breath, has also rendered many of my generation moribund.
if any bureaucrat or soft ‘scientist’ wants to step forward with advice, let me at least see them demonstrate that they are fit as fiddle and can run all day before i listen seriously.
A Big Mac - the worst thing I could quickly think of for you to eat - has 1010 mg of salt in it.
So- for people to eat 10g, or 10000mg, that’s the equivalent of 10 Big Macs, daily.
I won’t say that people probably eat too much salt, but these bureaucrats with an agenda, are utterly wrong, imo.
such health and nutrition experts’ advice in the last 50 years has led to our healthy and vigorous children becoming obese and unfit for even mild to moderate activity in my memory
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I think the quality of food people sell, with their harmful additives, contributed.
no doubt.
however, i’ll remind you the FDA approved many of those ‘additives.’ additives, sounds so innocuous doesn’t it. and approved them usually with a substantial greasing of gov’t palms.
and it’s not just additives and it’s been going on for a long time. farmers have been subverted by big ag. i recall reading that Rockefeller himself campaigned against healthy raw milk to corner the milk market for pasturized.
then they said the milk was bad, then butter was bad, then eggs were bad (think of it, nearly the perfect food was deemed bad), salt was bad, coffee was bad. on and on. it’s all so evil.
People who consume seed oils have excess omega 6 fats.
Seed oils are more than 50% omega 6 fats. Most foods are less than 5% omega 6 fats.
People started making seed oils in the 20th century. Before that, all foods were less than 20% omega 6 fats, so it was impossible to consume the amount of omega 6 fats people consume today.
Omega 6 fats make people fat and cause cancer. People of each generation have more omega 6 fats in their bodies.
And Sugar Beets.
i like olive oil. is that a seed oil or a fruit oil?
what do you think of flax? such a useful plant, imo.
I don’t each much processed food, and I get muscle cramps. Maybe I have too little salt.
Is it premature of me to simply presume anything from the WHO is horse crap? This sounds like Michelle Obama all over again.
Olive oil is a traditional oil. Coconut oil and palm oil are traditional oils. Olive oil is 10% omega 6 fats. They’re not extracted from seeds.
Corn oil, soy oil, canola oil are seed oils.
I don’t know about flax oil. It’s a seed oil, but I think some people take it in small amounts. That will not be excess omega 6 fats consumption.
Check out Calley Means on YouTube. A former big food corporate insider drops the dime on how big food controls science and the FDA.
Coke lobbied to keep soda on the list of things you can buy with your SNAP card because it made them millions every year.
Go look at the Tufts University food Compass where high sugar Kelloggs cereal is ranked healthier by far than an egg. Science ha sold out !
Why do Kellogg’s have so many additives? Is something with so many additives a food? Is it a food or a supplement?
When salt is outlawed...only outlaws, cooks and sailors will have salt.
Studies show that sugar is more addictive than cocaine. Both stimulate the same Dopamine receptors in the brain.
agreed. and thx for the info.
What are “highway processed foods?” Road kill?
AKA road kill
I really enjoy seasoning food with good old salt. My rule of thumb is that if it tastes good it probably has too much salt. The one exception is yellow mustard. Very flavorful and only 2% of recommended daily sodium intake.
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