Posted on 06/24/2010 5:17:15 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Nine out of 10 Americans eat too much salt with most of them getting more than twice the recommended amount, according to a survey by U.S. government researchers.
They said an estimated 77 percent of dietary sodium comes from processed foods and restaurant foods.
"Sodium has become so pervasive in our food supply that it's difficult for the vast majority of Americans to stay within recommended limits," said Janelle Peralez Gunn, public health analyst with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who led the study of salt consumption.
"Public health professionals, together with food manufacturers, retailers and healthcare providers, must take action now to help support people's efforts to reduce their sodium consumption," Peralez Gunn said in a statement.
The study said most Americans consume 3,466 milligrams of sodium a day, more than twice the recommended limit. Much of the excess sodium comes from foods like pizza, cookies and meats, it said.
The 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend eating no more than 2,300 mg of sodium per day. Proposed new guidelines for 2010 would lower that to 1,500 mg.
Eating too much salt can raise blood pressure, which can cause kidney failure and strokes. The Institute of Medicine in February declared high blood pressure a "neglected disease" that costs the U.S. health system $73 billion a year.
According to the CDC survey, grain-based foods account for the biggest proportion of salt in the American diet, providing 36.9 percent of the total average intake of 3,466 milligrams.
That is followed by foods containing meat, chicken and fish, which account for 27.9 percent.
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Another way of reading this is to note that 10% of Americans don’t get enough salt.
I’m on a prescribed high salt diet to treat idiopathic hypotension. Isn’t it nice of uncle sam to tell me to drop dead.
Gun shoots, they grow locally.
Just ‘nother gubbment ‘salr on our rights.
Interesting that you would agree with a BS premise. Who knows how much salt I need but me and me alone?
Just ‘nother gubbment ‘salr on our rights.
The members of the CDC don’t breathe enough air so their brains are starved for an adequate oxygen supply. That is why all of their announcements are half-thought out and half-baked.
Bullshit.
Had to get some popcorn with extra butter to read this thread...
DITT frikkin’ O!
If it weren't for the CDC, it would have been an epidemic.
The forecast epidemic was caught in time because of the CDC warnings. ~snort
Mhhmmm. I'd have to reread the article, but I don't believe it said "X-FID" consumes too much salt. I think it said Americans consume too much salt.
If you don't think that medical researchers can accurately estimate the salt in the diet of the average American, you must be a gas station attendant. Just saying.
None of the gobbermints business
Well put, direct and to the point. ; )
9 out of 10 Americans don’t need the government telling them what they can eat and what they can not........idiots libtards and their frakin’ food nazis.....
Now wait a minute ... aren't they telling us to eat more whole grains? Which is it?
I think I'm going to start stockpiling salt. It'll probably become more valuable than silver.
They did such a bang up job with the Swine flu....just saying :-)
This article makes me hungry. I’m headed to MacDonald’s to get a happy meal (with toys), but on the way I’m stopping at BP to fill up and at the grocery to buy salt for my fries.
Leave my bacon, salt, doughnuts, margarine, Happy Meals, steak, hot dogs, sugary cereals... ad infinitum, ALONE!
Most people don't know because the symptom is invisible (high blood presure) as opposed to say suger, where eating too much makes people fat. The problem is the government is never happy just warning people, they always have to try to compel people "for their own good".
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