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The government wants restaurants to cut down on salt
Marketwatch ^

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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KEYWORDS: nannystate; salt; slavery; tyranny
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To: SkyDancer

It’s going to be just like Demolition Man....

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41 posted on 06/01/2016 11:03:06 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: nickcarraway

Salt on lettuce will wilt it. There’s lots of salt and sugar in dressings though.


42 posted on 06/01/2016 11:03:28 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Safetgiver
Fructose IS sugar, sugar in its most damaging form. Cane sugar, called Sucrose is, in fact, a mixture of Fructose and Glucose.
43 posted on 06/01/2016 11:03:55 AM PDT by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberalsoli o feccia.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

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.


44 posted on 06/01/2016 11:08:53 AM PDT by BiggerTigger
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To: firebrand
Adding salt at the table does not always do the trick. Perfect example: pasta or rice. Cook it without salt and it can never recover.

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.

45 posted on 06/01/2016 11:27:43 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: arthurus
Fructose IS sugar, sugar in its most damaging form.

Fresh fruit is damaging? Sounds like something my kids would say as the reach for the Pringles.

46 posted on 06/01/2016 11:52:21 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Sure...the Government will tell you it has good intentions, that it wants all of us healthier. Yeah, it's a health issue alright.

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!

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47 posted on 06/01/2016 12:01:12 PM PDT by floozy22 ("That was not the easiest entrance I've ever made. It felt like I was crossing the border, actually")
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To: BiggerTigger

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?


48 posted on 06/01/2016 2:56:45 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: Uversabound

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.


49 posted on 06/01/2016 3:10:00 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: Mase

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.


50 posted on 06/01/2016 3:10:49 PM PDT by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberalsoli o feccia.)
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To: MrEdd

You'll want to focus on the neglected food groups. Such as the Whipped group, the congealed group and the chocotastic. And remember, if you’re not sure about something, rub it against a piece of paper. If the paper turns clear, it’s your window to weight gain.”
51 posted on 06/01/2016 4:52:13 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: arthurus
Fresh fruit overdone contributes to the onset of type 2 Diabetes

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.

52 posted on 06/02/2016 9:22:28 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012
There are plenty of other things to season food with to enhance flavor but not raise blood pressure.

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.

53 posted on 06/02/2016 9:34:43 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Mase
Fresh fruit is damaging?

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...

54 posted on 06/02/2016 9:38:43 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Mase

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.


55 posted on 06/02/2016 10:29:02 AM PDT by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberalsoli o feccia.)
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To: Mase

Wife is diabetic. We have studied this stuff rather extensively.


56 posted on 06/02/2016 10:29:48 AM PDT by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberalsoli o feccia.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

M Kehoe wants government to cut expenses.

Salt is not a responsibility of the U.S. gov. Sorry leftists.

5.56mm


57 posted on 06/02/2016 10:35:46 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: arthurus
Doesn't matter how extensively you study this stuff you can't tell the difference between fructose from an orange from the fructose found in HFCS. Fructose is fructose and your body handles it the same regardless of the source.

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.

58 posted on 06/02/2016 12:36:30 PM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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