What Don’t They Want To Control?
What Don't They Want To Control?
It seems it's something new every day. And sadly, no, that's not hyperbole. Today, it's our salt intake. Daniel Olson writes at Openmarket:
Recently, the US Food and Drug Administration, working with the Institute of Medicine, has been considering a change in the regulatory status of salt. The FDA cannot currently restrict the amount of salt that can be added to processed foods, and the proposed change would allow them to do so.Advocates of the proposed regulation, like former FDA commissioner David Kessler and the Center for Science in the Public Interest, argue that reducing the sodium in foods would improve people's health and cut public health spending. Opponents argue that the evidence supporting health benefits of sodium reduction is by no means conclusive, and that attempts to reduce sodium intake could actually be harmful.
But a recent study by University of California, Davis nutritionists concludes that it may not even be possible to reduce salt intake through regulation. The study shows that people are naturally inclined to regulate salt intake to physiologically determined levels by unconsciously selecting foods to meet their needs.
You can tear my salt shaker out of my cold, dead hands. And P.S. If I do die, it's not going to be from salting just about everything but coffee and desert, which I do.
Tierney on research on salt here.
via Walter Olson
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