FDA planning to regulate salt.

[matt wade]

Pot calling Kettle black!

Let us know when you have something of value to contribute. We won't be holding our breath.

Back to the OP. Seriously, do we need the government to regulate the amount of salt we intake? If salt, why not trans fat, or sugar, or carbohydrates? Where does it end? Should the government issue ration cards so that you can only visit a fast food joint a particular number of times a week?

I've heard a lot of noise from the left on this thread, but have yet to see anyone attempt to explain why this is a good idea.

 

[TC]

Yep, we is just too ignant to read dem lables and decide if we want to buy it or not. Bid daddy G got to tell us everting we need to know so we don't havta tink or do nuttin for ourselves. :laugh:

 

[billwald]

King County, WA, requires the national chains to list the nutritional data on their menu items. The Wife and I recently had hamburgers at a fast food place and didn't notice the chart until we had begun to eat. We had consumed a week's worth of sodium in one meal.

 

[matt wade]

King County, WA, requires the national chains to list the nutritional data on their menu items. The Wife and I recently had hamburgers at a fast food place and didn't notice the chart until we had begun to eat. We had consumed a week's worth of sodium in one meal.

I call hogwash. Let's take a really big meal from McDonalds:

Double Quarter Pounder(R) with Cheese: 1380mg
Large French Fries: 350mg
Ketchup Packet x 5: 550mg
Coca-Cola(R) Classic (Large): 20mg

TOTAL: 2300mg

The American Heart Association says:

The American Heart Association recommends that all Americans reduce the amount of sodium in their diet to less than 1500 mg a day. This is a change from previous American Heart Association recommendations for the general population that set the limit at no more than 2300 mg a day. The new recommendations are one component in a suite of cardiovascular measurements developed by the American Heart Association to determine if Americans are improving their cardiovascular health by 20 percent by 2020.

http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3072180

So, yes, a meal as I just presented is exceeding the daily amount recommended by the American Heart Association. They have a pretty low recommendation as well, so I was trying to help your case out. Unless you are eating several very large cheeseburgers and several orders of fries you will not reach a weekly limit with one meal.