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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, @08:30PM
That's not even remotely analogous.
The point I was making is that if you haven't got elevated blood pressure or other medical conditions then there's really no upside to reducing the sodium intake as you're probably getting the correct amount. The recommendations make no allowances for the time of the year, your physical activity level, how much you piss out or sweat out and your kidneys' tendency to retain or let it through.
As such it's an irresponsible recommendation. It also fails to account for the physical size of the person eating the salt. A 100# woman is going to require less sodium in her diet than a 250# football player would.