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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: 2) by captain normal on Wednesday July 27 2016, @04:07AM
Actually you can lower your blood pressure by 20~30 points by meditating a few minutes. If you drive on a freeway to get to your doctors office, you can suddenly be pre-hypertensive.
We do need a certain amount of salt to stay healthy. If you work or do heavy exercise on a hot day, you sweat out a lot of salt. then you need the salt pills they give you in boot camp and high school football workouts. If you sit on your arse in an office or hacking code, you don't sweat out very much salt. So if you eat a lot of prepared foods with lots of salt you get too much. And you probably wind up hypertensive.
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