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The FDA is asking food makers and eating establishments to voluntarily reduce salt levels in their products to help reduce Americans' high salt intake.
The draft guidelines target these sources of salt with the goal of reducing Americans' average daily salt intake from 3,400 milligrams (mg) a day to 2,300 mg a day.
[...] Currently, 90 percent of American adults consume more salt than recommended, the FDA pointed out.
[...] The public has until the fall to comment on the FDA's voluntary salt guidelines for food manufacturers and restaurants.
The FDA claims that people can always add more salt to their food, which is true, but they ignore that salt changes how food is cooked and adding salt to the surface of food affects taste differently than when it is evenly distributed.
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=197193
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_salt
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @12:15AM
As long as you have enough corresponding water with the salt the water will just wash the salt out of your body. It's basic physics (concentration gradients).
I like to drink deionized water. It tastes better and it does a better job extracting toxins and waste materials out of the body (again, physics). The food I eat (and a touch of multivitamins) provides my body with the nutrients (reactants) it needs. My body knows how to selectively extract, store, and use what it needs. Deionized water most strongly pulls waste material (products) out of my body (again, physics) that my body no longer needs and wishes to keep.