Originally posted by fordrew

HOWEVER, fast food venues should be hit with this salt ban. I think everyone should be surprised at how much sodium chloride they pack food in this day of age. Whenever I read nutritional content the serving sizes are always too small. For instance when giving an "individual" serving size of 5 cookies in a pack the nutritional content is for 2 cookies, for instance. They do the same for drinks too. So if you see a drink that has 15% sodium on the nutritional content label it may be the % sodium for half of the bottle but not the full bottle. So if you were to drink a whole bottle of this supposed drink you would actually get 30% sodium. Take a look one of these days when your drinking your vitamin water or eating your oreo cookies.
[edit on 11-3-2010 by forw] [/drew]

WRONG!!! I have a better idea for you fordrew. If you think fast food joints put too much salt in their foods, then just don't go. Real simple. You have a choice and I have a choice. I think that's better than everyone having to live by fordrew's perception. Don't you? Or do you think everyone should live the way YOU want them to live?

Originally posted by fordrew
You are calling me a moron then? And what kind of education background do you have?

You do not believe salt to be a blood thinner then? GEE NOW what can be the possible consequences if your blood thins and your family possibly has a history of heart problems? You do not need studies to know what common sense can tell you about the issue.

I am paranoid that they dump too much salt into our daily diets honestly. I honestly think Americans eat upwards 500% the daily values of sodium daily and that is why heart disease is the number 1 killer in AMerica.

If you truly believe that the politicians sitting in office (lording over you) REALLY care if you wake up tomorrow morning, then I believe that you are quite naive.

Moron is a strong word to use, as it describes a feeble mind.

I didn't mean for you to take it literally, however if you wish to, let me know.
In that case I will mean it.

Oooh, I forgot to answer your questions:

For the first- Not specifically, but if the shoe fits.....

Question the second- Well.... on the internet, I'm a Rhodes scholar. Ha Ha.

In honest to goodness real life, I am a 47 year old male with NO post secondary education. But I'd like to think I have some common sense.

I also value what few freedoms that I have left here in America, and would hate to have the cops say that I can't have a restaurant put salt in the dough, SO MY PIZZA TASTES GOOD.


[edit on 11-3-2010 by butcherguy]

I can think of at least 3 ethnic types of cuisine that would be completely shut down by this:Spanish/Latin, Indian, American/continental. Not to mention the various seafood types. We just need to start taking responsibility for ourselves. Nothing more. I have diabetes and am disabled now unable to work. I understood that I can't eat what ever I want as I can't exercise anymore, and I corrected it. You can't stop everyone from doing things that are dangerous to them. Look at drugs. Worked so far hasn't it? (Not talking about marijuana)

I would also like to put this out there for all the namby pamby biatches that want to decide what is in MY diet.

We are all going to die.

If you are afraid of that, fine.

Let me live my life with some happiness.

DON'T SCREW WITH MY FOOD!

Originally posted by john124


Don't you feel fairly rotten if you have too much salt? Sometimes you can't tell until you've eaten the meal if it's dissolved in gravy or sauces.

[edit on 10-3-2010 by john124]

Then you should ask if your food could be made with out salt or lower in salt. Don't tell me I can't eat what I want because you feel yucky.

Originally posted by GAOTU789
You could eat out at a decent restaurant five days a week and not get the amount of sodium you get out of a single serving of the processed crap that gets passed off as food.

I think that's the most reasonable comment in this thread! If somebody wants to ban salt, restaurants aren't the place to start. If you just look at labels on some foods you buy in the store, the amount of salt is staggering. There should be caps on amount of salt per ounce of product weight (with exception of pickles and such).

Why is there always people that will agree with something that is completely ridiculous? If I were to make a post stating the moon was made out of cheese, people would agree. I can see the government banning shoes, and people agreeing with them. What the hell is wrong with people? Doesn't anyone use their own common sense anymore? Our freedoms are being stripped away one at a time, and people are saying HELL YEAH! Ban salt! Put filters on our internet! Ugh.... I can't even be bothered to try with people anymore. I'm so fed up, that everyone around me is so blind. I wonder what the government would do, if people actually had brains.

Originally posted by The Baby Seal Club

Originally posted by fordrew

HOWEVER, fast food venues should be hit with this salt ban. I think everyone should be surprised at how much sodium chloride they pack food in this day of age. Whenever I read nutritional content the serving sizes are always too small. For instance when giving an "individual" serving size of 5 cookies in a pack the nutritional content is for 2 cookies, for instance. They do the same for drinks too. So if you see a drink that has 15% sodium on the nutritional content label it may be the % sodium for half of the bottle but not the full bottle. So if you were to drink a whole bottle of this supposed drink you would actually get 30% sodium. Take a look one of these days when your drinking your vitamin water or eating your oreo cookies.
[edit on 11-3-2010 by forw] [/drew]

WRONG!!! I have a better idea for you fordrew. If you think fast food joints put too much salt in their foods, then just don't go. Real simple. You have a choice and I have a choice. I think that's better than everyone having to live by fordrew's perception. Don't you? Or do you think everyone should live the way YOU want them to live?

A)I don't go to mcdonalds or any fast food, and if I do I partake about once a month.

B)I just stated my opinion on the matter. I do not care if the world should be in my perception because it is not.

YOU ARE JUST putting words in my mouth buddy.

C)and you honestly don't think eating too much sodium won't kill you? I think the americans that die to heart disease every day would like a word with you. The simple fact is that too much salt will thin your blood and over a long period of large sodium consumption (aka eating 500% your daily sodium intake a day) WILL LEAD TO HEART COMPLICATIONS. It is your choice to stay healthy and I do not care about whether you take my opinion or you continue your sodium binges.

As much as I hate politics more than anything in the world they are just trying to save us IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE.

[edit on 11-3-2010 by fordrew]

A ban on the use of salts in restaurants is just plan crazy,; however, I would welcome the change in quality. Flavored salts are over used today, all the big chains have resorted to salt-based seasonings that didn't even exist 30 years ago. If I am going to eat lemon-peppered fish, I want it seasoned with lemon and pepper, not a lemon-pepper salt. Mass production is the name of the game and salt-based seasonings make it happen faster and cheaper.

Doesn't the human body need a certain amount of salt to survive? Besides this hypothesis, I believe salt was used in ancient times as a form of monies. Eh, either way, IMHO, banning an ingredient to food sounds kind of absurd. It's not like a drug or anything.