Regulations On Salt?

Do you think you personally should make a decision on buying food that is considered high in sodium or do you think the government should make that decision for you?

washingtonpost.com (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/20/AR2010042003693.html)

Also in the last 2 years we have seen flavored cigarettes become illegal, proposal for menthol cigarettes to be banned, trans fats bans, and salt reduction bills.

What do yout think is next?

Clearly the government limits all sort of stuff. I am not saying they should be doing this, but you can always add salt to your liking, hard to take it away once it's in there.

I'm 100% for this for a couple of reasons.

1) I have ridiculously high blood pressure, and can't eat any of the shit that's out there. I have to buy all this no salt added crap.

2) It's not like it's something you can't just add back in it.

I'm all for soft paternalism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_paternalism), and this seems right there.

Maybe instead of limiting all the salt, we offer the "low sodium" choice as the default. If you want more salt, ask for the higher sodium one. That would be my only thing that I might try different.

I see no reason for this. There are lower salt alternatives all over the place. I just don't think it is the govt's job to impose individual values onto it's citizens.

I can hear it now, "keep your gov't hands off my salt shaker!"

Seriously though, I don't see anything wrong with regulating the ridiculously high sodium content of processed food and even restaurant food.

Also in the last 2 years we have seen flavored cigarettes become illegal, proposal for menthol cigarettes to be banned, trans fats bans, and salt reduction bills.

What do yout think is next?


Sin tax on soda.

Too much of anything is bad for you...limiting the amount of slat in processed food which these manufactures have to obtain licenses to produce and sell seems like a sensible thing to do....promote general welfare strikes again!

get'em, get'em!

No problems here. If you really want to be fat, just buy your own salt and take it with you wherever you go. Or boycott going out. But wait, by doing that you will inherently eat healthier food and less salt.

Either way Big Brother owns you.

What we really need is a drastic overhaul of the way our food is grown and produced. We've got animals jacked up on steroids and antibiotics. The water supply is going to shit, processed foods are full of sugar, salt, and are basically void of nutrition. Kids are fatter than ever and don't get enough exercise, nobody knows how to eat properly anymore and diabetes is a badge of honor it seems.