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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, @12:40AM
One of the biggest problems with the FDA is that they make blanket recommendations and impose blanket requirements. Or they make it prohibitively expensive to overcome their blanket requirements by requiring a prescription every time you need something or they outright ban something for everyone for no good reason.
I recently briefly commented about it here regarding red yeast rice and Lovastatin.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160725/09460835061/internet-things-is-security-privacy-dumpster-fire-check-is-about-to-come-due.shtml#c154 [techdirt.com]
I think it's a combination of both irresponsibility and corruption. I do not need the government managing my health for me. It's not like they can manage anything else well so why should I believe they can manage my health.
"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
~Thomas Jefferson