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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: 1) by Francis on Wednesday July 27 2016, @08:19PM
The point is that there's no point in cutting down on sodium unless you specifically need to. It's definitely not hard to increase your levels once you become aware of it. The problem is that if you're skating by on the recommended amount if there's anything that causes you to sweat more or pee more, you can wind up washing the last bit out of the system without realizing it. And sodium is vitally important for thinking, so you're less likely to properly recognize the problem.
The more sodium you have in the body, the further you are away from having to worry about deficiency. That's not to say that people should be consuming massive amounts of sodium to avoid getting low, but it is plenty of reason for people to ignore the recommendations if they don't personally have blood pressure problems and excessive levels.