What is, on average, the saltiest food most normal, red-blooded 'mercuns eat...pray tell? It's BACON!
That's right - this is the government's WAR ON BACON! And WE MUST FIGHT!
Posted on 06/01/2016 9:07:58 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
The proposed guidelines, released today, recommend sodium goals by restaurant product or menu item, 150 categories in total, designed with a salt intake goal for Americans in mind.
“Many Americans want to reduce sodium in their diets, but that’s hard to do when much of it is in everyday products we buy in stores and restaurants,” Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell said. “Today’s announcement is about putting power back in the hands of consumers, so that they can better control how much salt is in the food they eat and improve their health.”
The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit, says it has urged the FDA to reduce salt in foods for 10 years, suing the agency to that effect last fall.
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It’s going to be just like Demolition Man....
That’s right. You see, according to *Cacteau’s* plan. *I’m* the enemy. Because I like to think, I like to read. I’m into freedom of speech, freedom of choice. I’m the kind if guy who would sit in the greasy spoon and think “Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the big rack of Barbecued spare ribs with the side order of gravy fries?” I *want* high cholesterol. I want to eat bacon, butter and buckets of cheese alright? I want to smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in a non-smoking section. I wanna run around naked with green jell-o all over my body reading a Playboy magazine. Why? Because maybe I feel the need to okay pal? I’ve *seen* the future, you know what it is. It’s made by a 47 year-old virgin in gray pajamas soaking in a bubble bath, drinking a broccoli milkshake and thinking “I’m an Oscar-Meyer Wiener”. You wanna live on top, you gotta live Cacteau’s way. What he wants, when he wants, how he wants. Your other option: come down here, maybe starve to death,
Salt on lettuce will wilt it. There’s lots of salt and sugar in dressings though.
I need salt in my food because I sweat. And I like my own cooking; no one’s spit is in it unless it’s my own.
In 60 years, I don't think my (Thai) wife has ever salted rice. However, most anything that is eaten with rice is very salty. I'm always telling her to ease up on the salt. I guess it's habit from eating only a little stuff on top of a huge portion of rice.
Fresh fruit is damaging? Sounds like something my kids would say as the reach for the Pringles.
What is, on average, the saltiest food most normal, red-blooded 'mercuns eat...pray tell? It's BACON!
That's right - this is the government's WAR ON BACON! And WE MUST FIGHT!
When I go for a long hike or bike ride, I get visible salt lines down my face. How does the government want me to replace this?
They originally started iodizing salt because people who lived too far from the coast to get iodine in fish needed it. The entire Midwest had goiter. Then came frozen food and there really was no need for it anymore, as long as people ate ocean fish.
Fresh fruit overdone contributes to the onset of type 2 Diabetes. Some fresh fruits do seem to have other components that somehow mitigate the fructose. Corn fructose is used in packaged food and soft drinks because it is the cheapest way to provide the sugar, but it is also the most harmful.
Overwhelm the body with anything and bad stuff will happen.
Corn fructose is used in packaged food and soft drinks because it is the cheapest way to provide the sugar, but it is also the most harmful.
Fructose is fructose no matter the source. It is no more harmful than any other sugar when consumed in moderation. It is no more responsible for diabetes than any other sugar.
Unless you have a certain sensitivity then salt will not raise your blood pressure to dangerous level.
I am getting tired of being pressured to change my diet because of other people.
You can't eat gluten, peanuts, tree nuts, sugar, salt, milk, shellfish?
Sucks to be you, leave my food alone.
Pointed stick? Oh, oh, oh. We want to learn how to defend ourselves against pointed sticks, do we? Getting all high and mighty, eh? Fresh fruit not good enough for you eh? Well I'll tell you something my lad. When you're walking home tonight and some homicidal maniac comes after you with a bunch of loganberries, don't come crying to me! Now, the passion fruit. When your assailant lunges at you with a passion fruit...
There are variations in the various types of sugar. Glucose is the least harmful. Fructose, depending on what it comes with is as benign as glucose or is more harmful than glucose. Alone it is more harmful. In fruits it is generally no worse than glucose.
Wife is diabetic. We have studied this stuff rather extensively.
M Kehoe wants government to cut expenses.
Salt is not a responsibility of the U.S. gov. Sorry leftists.
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Fructose isn't the cause of diabetes, but consuming more calories than you burn from fructose, or any other carbohydrate (or fat or amino acids), over a long period of time, could be.
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