Food Nazis at it again.

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http://health.msn.com/dietfitness/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100155296&GT1=9033

Your salad dressing has a dirty little secret. (Your bran muffin and ham sandwich are in on it, too.) These foods—and, indeed, nearly everything you might eat in a day—are loaded with a mineral that some experts fear may be slowly killing you. It's sodium, and even if you don't have high blood pressure, you need to start thinking about it.
We know what you're thinking: Yawn. Well, wake up. Our national "salt tooth" is so bad that the American Medical Association recently asked the FDA to remove sodium from its list of food additives generally recognized as safe.
That's right. Saccharin can stay, but sodium's got to go. Call it the physicians' preemptive strike. "There's no way to tell which chronic health problems will result after years and years of a high-salt diet," explains Stephen Havas, MD, vice president of science, quality, and public health for the AMA. "We'd rather people not be put at risk at all."

 

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"There's no way to tell which chronic health problems will result after years and years of a high-salt diet," explains Stephen Havas, MD, vice president of science, quality, and public health for the AMA.

Yeah, cause salt is such a new invention...

 

[TheNewWorldMan]

If you eat anything that tastes good, you will get obesity, strokes, heart attacks, cancer, radiation poisoning, and diabetes. Oh yes, and then you'll die.

 

[Jacey]

Nazis? Is that really necessary?

Are you against people knowing the facts about what they eat on a daily basis?

 

[Voegelin]

Hope they mention what not having enough sodium does to you. People need to be fully informed. They might mention the role water plays in health as well.

 

[burrow_owl]

There was an article in the NY Times Magazine two weeks ago about diet and the kinda science of dietetics, and it started with the author's conclusion after his weeks or months of research:

"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

I thought that was great.

 

[mwb]

I'd be happy to not have access to unhealthy foods. I obviously can't stop myself so I don't mind if someone else does it for me.

I'd like to see enriched wheat flour banned.

 

[WalkingforHim]

You know, if you drink too much water, you can drown.

Put it on the ban list.

 

[momalle1]

Hope they mention what not having enough sodium does to you. People need to be fully informed. They might mention the role water plays in health as well.

Exactly. Remember the bran fad? People were eating so much bran they were bleeding. I have no problem with labelling the food properly and educating the public (though I'm not sure how effective that is after the bran thing), but let people decide what they want to eat.