SALT LOVERS FEEL PINCHED

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Pity that when the FDA does its analysis..... WELL it would be wonderful if they found all the other things wrong with the processed foods and fixed them also :-)

The FDA would analyse the salt in spaghetti sauces, breads and thousands of other products that make up the $600 billion food and beverage market.

 

Bottom line really is that processed foods are not healthy foods......

so buy and cook from scratch.

 

I/we have not eaten anything out of a packet / tin or frozen prepared food now for over three years...... everything is cooked from scratch. When the hospital heart dietician came to see me recently, with her YOU must eat these foods and CANNOT eat these foods, she went away, tail between her legs because she could not fault my special diet.... she tried to get me off butter and onto margarine, but even had to back off on that because I had no other source of calcium as I am dairy free.

 

And how come FDA will analyse these foods, and yet does NOT analyse the drugs, but leaves that to the drug companies... who have been shown to falsify data!

 

Just thinking out loud!!

 

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Still thinking out loud on this salt topic

 

How many folks actually live off processed foods? FAR TOO MANY would be my first answer. Juts look next time you are at the supermarket at what the average family has in their trolley.

 

SO conversely - I am not an FDA fan by any means....... reducing the sodium level in processed foods would not be such a bad thing.... my guess is that food producers use pure sodium and NOT healthy organic (*grin) mineral salts in food production,. And too much pure sodium is detrimental. Still would be better for folks to stop buying and eating processed foods all together and cook from scratch, using good salt.... as much as they need...... unrestricted by FDA!

 

 

 

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One more way to control

our lives. The politicians and bureaucrats

make rules and laws on things they don’t even understand, taking the

word

of some “experts” and the experts, especially in the medical field,

are often WRONG.

 

Health

Issues

April 21, 2010

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=19247 & utm_source=newsletter & utm_medium=email & utm_campaign=DPD

 

SALT

LOVERS FEEL PINCHED

The Food and Drug

Administration (FDA) is planning an

unprecedented effort to gradually reduce the salt consumed each day by

Americans, saying that less sodium in everything from soup to nuts

would

prevent thousands of deaths from hypertension and heart disease.

The

FDA

would analyze the salt in spaghetti sauces, breads and thousands of

other

products that make up the $600 billion food and beverage market.

Working

with

food manufacturers, the government would set limits for salt in these

categories, designed to gradually ratchet down sodium consumption.

Morton Satin, director for

technical and regulatory affairs

at the Salt Institute, which represents salt producers, said regulation

would

be a disaster for the public.

"The science regarding

sodium is unclear and that

consumption does not necessarily lead to health problems. If you

consume

a lot of salt, you also get rid of a lot of salt -- it doesn't mean

it's an

excess. I want to make sure they're basing this on everything that is

in

the scientific literature, so we don't end up being guinea pigs because

someone

thinks they're doing something good," he said.

Reducing salt across the

food supply will be a massive and

technically challenging project, says the Washington Post:

Although

many

artificial sweeteners have been discovered, there is no salt

substitute.

Humans

have

an innate taste for salt, which is needed for some basic biological

functions.

But

beyond

flavor, salt is also used as a preservative to inhibit microbial

growth;

it gives texture and structure to certain foods; and it helps leaven

and brown

baked goods.

Source: Lyndsey Layton,

"FDA plans to limit amount of

salt allowed in processed foods for health reasons," Washington Post,

April 20, 2010.

For text:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/19/AR2010041905049_pf.html

 

[Guest guest]

I agree with what you said here BUT my worry is that, since salt is a preservative, the food scientists will develop another chemical to take its place which may prove to be worse--- On Wed, 4/21/10, justmeint <justmeint wrote:

justmeint <justmeintRe: SALT LOVERS FEEL PINCHED Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 7:56 PM

 

 

Still thinking out loud on this salt topic

 

How many folks actually live off processed foods? FAR TOO MANY would be my first answer. Juts look next time you are at the supermarket at what the average family has in their trolley.

 

SO conversely - I am not an FDA fan by any means....... reducing the sodium level in processed foods would not be such a bad thing.... my guess is that food producers use pure sodium and NOT healthy organic (*grin) mineral salts in food production,. And too much pure sodium is detrimental. Still would be better for folks to stop buying and eating processed foods all together and cook from scratch, using good salt.... as much as they need...... unrestricted by FDA!

 

 

 

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Sure, eat simple food, no processed stuff. Eat mediterranean style. Like a monk or nun. (But sleep with a loved one.)

 

But about salt, the helathy body has effective systems to keep the correct salt balance. If you eat too much, it immediately goes out the drain.

 

Ole, Denmark

 

 

 

-

Tony De Angelis

Sunday, April 25, 2010 10:38 PM

Re: SALT LOVERS FEEL PINCHED

 

 

 

 

I agree with what you said here BUT my worry is that, since salt is a preservative, the food scientists will develop another chemical to take its place which may prove to be worse--- On Wed, 4/21/10, justmeint <justmeint > wrote:

justmeint <justmeint >Re: SALT LOVERS FEEL PINCHED Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 7:56 PM

 

Still thinking out loud on this salt topic

 

How many folks actually live off processed foods? FAR TOO MANY would be my first answer. Juts look next time you are at the supermarket at what the average family has in their trolley.

 

SO conversely - I am not an FDA fan by any means....... reducing the sodium level in processed foods would not be such a bad thing.... my guess is that food producers use pure sodium and NOT healthy organic (*grin) mineral salts in food production,. And too much pure sodium is detrimental. Still would be better for folks to stop buying and eating processed foods all together and cook from scratch, using good salt.... as much as they need...... unrestricted by FDA!

 

 

 

Cheer's from ME in T

 

 

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