Would you be in favor of government limits on the amount of sodium that can be put into processed food?

[acri1]

@a crow

For years, perhaps decades, food packaged and sold in USA has been required to have nutrition labels.

People have an idea of how much sodium is in the food they purchase. Many just don't care.

It's not really a matter of not knowing, it's that almost everything is high in sodium.

There aren't a lot of things you can buy at the grocery store that aren't high in sodium other than produce.

 

[Pressure]

It's not really a matter of not knowing, it's that almost everything is high in sodium.

There aren't a lot of things you can buy at the grocery store that aren't high in sodium other than produce.

Learn to cook then nikka. God damn.

 

[Pressure]

That's true, but at the same time it would be nice if you could go out to eat or get takeout somewhere without your meal having 10,000g of sodium

There are healthy options for restaurants.

 

[Mike Nasty]

@a crow

For years, perhaps decades, food packaged and sold in USA has been required to have nutrition labels.

People have an idea of how much sodium is in the food they purchase. Many just don't care.

Notice sugar is the only one that doesn't listen the % Daily value.

But 160mg at 7% is low. I guess we can take a lot of sodium.

 

[Mike Nasty]

in sodium.

There aren't a lot of things you can buy at the grocery store that aren't high in sodium other than produce.

We should all be dead then.

 

[DJ Paul's Arm]

Drink nothing but water, sweat it out with exercise while limiting sodium and you’re straight.

 

[get these nets]

It's not really a matter of not knowing, it's that almost everything is high in sodium.

There aren't a lot of things you can buy at the grocery store that aren't high in sodium other than produce.

How is it a matter of not knowing when the information for everything is readily accessible and in a standard form?

People can make better decisions, including the low sodium options available in many food categories. Or opt to ditch the product from their diet altogether and find a healthier replacement.

 

[Adeptus Astartes]

@ the Mike Bloomberg wannabes in this thread.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

@acri1

For years, perhaps decades, food packaged and sold in USA has been required to have nutrition labels.

People have an idea of how much sodium is in the food they purchase. Many just don't care.

Great, so you can eat soup with 1000mg of sodium or 800mg…nothing needs that much salt. 400-500mg is plenty salty per serving and should be the cap.

Limiting what and how much manufacturers can put of something into foods isn’t the same overstepping the way outright bans are (ie cities who stopped selling soda or heavily taxed it) - I don’t get the people in here acting like this is overstepping. We’ve eliminated other chemicals and come up with thresholds we don’t exceed for other ingredients, the same should be done with sodium and sugar, they’ve gotten to a point where it’s purely excessive and no longer about supporting taste. Europe does a great job of limiting or eliminating various chemicals in their foods and they taste better and they’re a generally healthier region, weird how the government reigning back in the packaged food companies from poisoning us is seems as overstepping

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

There are healthy options for restaurants.

Most chains healthy options are purely about calories, and occasionally grams of fat, they still have tons of sodium. A restaurant salad is still loaded with sodium between how they season the meat, to the dressing - of all types, and if you have cheese on it or a slice of bread with it, issa wrap.

 

[JetFueledThoughts]

Nope. Let people make their own food decisions.

Take all safety regulations and requirements away from cars, let people make their own car decisions.

 

[get these nets]

Great, so you can eat soup with 1000mg of sodium or 800mg…nothing needs that much salt. 400-500mg is plenty salty per serving and should be the cap.

Limiting what and how much manufacturers can put of something into foods isn’t the same overstepping the way outright bans are (ie cities who stopped selling soda or heavily taxed it) - I don’t get the people in here acting like this is overstepping. We’ve eliminated other chemicals and come up with thresholds we don’t exceed for other ingredients, the same should be done with sodium and sugar, they’ve gotten to a point where it’s purely excessive and no longer about supporting taste. Europe does a great job of limiting or eliminating various chemicals in their foods and they taste better and they’re a generally healthier region, weird how the government reigning back in the packaged food companies from poisoning us is seems as overstepping

You didn't read me saying or implying that the govt would be overstepping.
The public interest groups that got the nutrition label mandates had likely fought for years/decades to get it done.
Any real life measures to get govt. regulated and enforced limits on sodium in foods would be going against the same companies and trade associations that fought against the labels.
Years away from happening.

I was pointing out that in the meantime, people should use the nutrition labels to make better decisions.

 

[Pressure]

Most chains healthy options are purely about calories, and occasionally grams of fat, they still have tons of sodium. A restaurant salad is still loaded with sodium between how they season the meat, to the dressing - of all types, and if you have cheese on it or a slice of bread with it, issa wrap.

pack a lunch.

Go for healthier cheese options. Its clear y'all don't cook or look much into food science if you don't understand why certain items like cheese and bread have the sodium content they do.

And much of this is without discussing the economic impact of low shelf life foods with little to no preservatives will have on poor folks.

 

[Pressure]

Take all safety regulations and requirements away from cars, let people make their own car decisions.

Strawman considering we already have food safety precautions and no one is saying we should roll them back.

 

[Pressure]

In 2003, when the study began, Britons' salt intake averaged 9.5 grams per day. (In the United States, we generally measure salt by its sodium content, which is a little less than 40 percent of salt's weight, so 9.5 grams of salt corresponds to 3,740 milligrams of sodium.) By 2011, consumption had dropped 15 percent, to 8.1 grams per day, or 3,190 milligrams. Blood pressure dropped commensurately. Stroke mortality dropped by 42 percent, heart disease by 40 percent.

US recommendedations UL for salt intake is currently 2.3g per day.

The target for the UK is 8.1grams in this study.

I don't think these are the limits y'all have in mind