US Government will NOW dictate your food intake.

[Team Sergeant]

Socialized medicine now the government will dictate what you eat. No more "informed" intelligent decisions, you will eat less salt.

I think it's time to say NO to socialized government. I will eat all the salt I wish, anytime I wish and the first government "regulator" that attempts to stop me better have his/her will in order.

I've had enough of the current administration telling me how to live or what I will or will not eat.

Team Sergeant

U.S. Plans Drive to Limit Salt in Foods
Tuesday, April 20, 2010


U.S. regulators are planning a push to gradually cut the amount of salt Americans consume, saying less sodium would reduce deaths from hypertension and heart disease, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.

The effort would eventually lead to the first legal limits on the amount of salt allowed in processed foods, the newspaper reported. The plan is to be launched this year but officials have not set salt limits.

The government plans to work with the food industry and health experts to reduce sodium gradually over a period of years to ratchet down sodium consumption, the newspaper said, citing U.S. Food and Drug Administration sources.

U.S. researchers said in a recent study that working with the food industry to cut salt intake by nearly 10 percent could prevent hundreds of thousands of heart attacks and strokes over several decades and save the U.S. government $32 billion in healthcare costs.

Eating too much salt is a major cause of high blood pressure, which the Institute of Medicine, one of the National Academies of Sciences, last week declared a "neglected disease" that costs the U.S. health system $73 billion a year.

The FDA, which regulates most processed foods, and the U.S. Agriculture Department, which oversees meat and poultry, will work together on the effort to reduce Americans' sodium consumption.

Manufacturers can now use as much salt as they like in products but they are required to report the amount on nutrition labels.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,591285,00.html

[DJ Urbanovsky]

I agree.

Many processed foods aren't that healthy for you anyway, but that's more because of what they put in or take out, not because they've got too much salt.

Because of this, what, now I'm going to need to get a CCSSL? Carrying a Concealed Salt Shaker License?

[Team Sergeant]

This isn't about salt, or food, it's about allowing the US Government to dictate what you will do as a "free" person.

This will not stop at salt.

This is a path to socialism, the government making decisions for you, because you're too stupid to limit your own food intake.

This needs to stop here and now.

[stickey]

At first i thought..."well, the cost of healthcare [private] will go down if people are living healthier, whether mandated by gov't or not", then I was hit in the head with a reality sledgehammer: They will find something else to keep the costs up.

I am not for socialized healthcare. But at the same time, i do believe that the medical profession and pharmaceutical companies are becoming more and more crooked. I simply don't trust them anymore than i trust a lawyer, JAG, most car salesmen, and politicians.

I will preface it this way....luckily myself and family have been healthy, nothing dramatic. I also know that I don't know it all. Having said that, when i go to the doctor, i don't need a look-over. All i need is his/her signature so i can go to the pharmacy for whatever i have self-diagnosed ourselves with. Blood work on the other hand, is a different story.

(I'm not for government regulating what we consume either)

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[Sierra Bravo]

save the U.S. government $32 billion in healthcare costs".

pretty much sums it up in one line.

[Sacamuelas]

Originally Posted by stickey

...luckily myself and family have been healthy, nothing dramatic. I also know that I don't know it all.

Your are right. lucky
Instead, you posted.

Having said that, when i go to the doctor, i don't need a look-over. All i need is his/her signature so i can go to the pharmacy for whatever i have self-diagnosed ourselves with. Blood work on the other hand, is a different story.

You obviously forgot what you typed in the prior sentence. Let me highlight it for you in case you've gotten distracted again and lost your train of thought.

Originally Posted by by you

I also know that I don't know it all.

Sound familiar? I could care less that you don't trust your docs or that you think they are crooked/overpaid. After all, I am not a MD. LOL

Please save the "I know best crap" unless you have the education/experience under your belt to justify the attitude. You currrent confidence is based on paper thin reasoning and good luck with your past diagnosis. Things aren't always so simple in life.

Ask the parent of a child with leukemia that thought their child had bruises because she was iron deficient. All they wanted was iron supplements. How about the father who has a sore throat during allergy season that just wants meds? Then he finds out that those swollen lymph nodes ( which he didn't even notice) are due to pharyngeal cancer? These are extreme examples, but are reality to those crooked docs that you need to sign your RX's. .

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[azmg]

Originally Posted by Sierra Bravo

save the U.S. government $32 billion in healthcare costs".

pretty much sums it up in one line.

I have to wonder that if they hadn't taken over health care, would the savings really matter?

I say this while recognizing that if it wasn't health care it would certainly be something else

[Pete]

Originally Posted by armymom1228

From the USDA website. regulations and policy

TS? look over these programs and thier regs. Tell me is those regs socialism? Pretty much all of them have been in place for many yrs.

How much do we all weigh?

Step on the scale, please.

Where do you draw the line on the government helping you be healthy?

Hmmmmm, the IRS agent comes by. Has the family step on the scale and you are given added taxes based on how much you are overweight.

[The Reaper]

Welcome to the United Nanny State of America.

TR

Originally Posted by Pete

How much do we all weigh?

Step on the scale, please.

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Point taken.

One of my pet peeves is the amount of sodium in childrens cereal.

[echoes]

Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

This isn't about salt, or food, it's about allowing the US Government to dictate what you will do as a "free" person.

This will not stop at salt.

This is a path to socialism, the government making decisions for you, because you're too stupid to limit your own food intake.

This needs to stop here and now.

Very well said, TS Sir!!!!!!!!!


Can just see the headline now:

"Near Bloodbath at local Restaurant Averted by Chefs!"..."
"Local residents were shocked last night when a group of government regulators busted into the kichen at Restaurant SF, demanding the chefs hand over their salt, or else! Responding quickly and quietly, the chefs immediately implemented their plan of action, and within thirty seconds, had the regulators disarmed, bound, gagged, and sitting on the loading dock for transport! Dinner service resumed, and no injuries or fatalities were reported."

[Utah Bob]

Boy that's a load off my mind.
Now if they'll only tell me when to sh*t.

Hmmm......Will I need a permit to buy a can of Morton's salt??
Or will it just not be legal?
Maybe I could pay a transfer tax under the new NFA (National Food Act)

[Pete]

Originally Posted by Utah Bob

....Hmmm......Will I need a permit to buy a can of Morton's salt??................

Smuggling sea water to condense into salt will become a crime.

After trips to the beach families will be required to go through desalination stations to extract the excess salt.

After all, it's for the children.