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Originally posted by Equinox99
Well many people can't make that decision. Well, they could but they don't feel like it.
We are in an era where people want everything handed to them on a silver platter. Good work ethics is dead and the world of lazies is emerging the victor.
Originally posted by Blanca Rose
Actually a bag of baby carrots costs less than that where I live. I don't eat them because they contain way too many carbohydrates for me, but thanks. I purchase those for my husband as well, and he will eat them when we are out of chips, along with the dip he can't do without.
Originally posted by Blanca Rose
reply to post by mblahnikluver
I am sitting here looking at a bag of Dorito's that my husband bought yesterday because he is a junk food junkie. Because he insists on eating these kinds of snacks, and then dumps more salt on every meal, I think this is a good idea.
According to the package I am reading, a serving of these Dorito's contains 8% of your daily allowance of salt. The serving portion is 11 chips. Now, let me ask you how many people who eat Dorito's sit and count out every 11 chips to figure out their salt intake, or stop at 11 chips?
Then add to it, any other processed sort of food, from cheese, to ham...etc. People really do overdue salt, even if not intentionally.
I am one of those people that read a label on just about everything I eat, or purchase at the store.
I am also one of those people who puts a substitute for salt in the salt shaker at home because my husband doesn't care how much salt he eats, as long as the food tastes just right to him.
He's not a healthy person to begin with, having MS, kidney problems, and high blood pressure which salt only intensifies.
I guess my point is, that some people do need regulating because they won't do it for themselves.
Originally posted by lpowell0627
Throw out the damn chips and dip and leave your husband with the carrots!
Again, this is solely about your husband's apparent lack of self-control. Personally, I could care less if he weighed 500 pounds and never got off the couch. That's his choice. And yours should you choose to put up with it. It's not my business to tell you how to run your house -- and it's not the government's job either!
But I'll be darned if I am going to pay more because he can't "help himself" but to eat the bag.
Originally posted by mblahnikluver
So he INSISTS on eating crap? How is that my fault or anyone elses that he cant control what he eats or eating healthy? So the govt should tell me what to eat because people like your husband and many others cant control their food intake. Sorry but no!
Originally posted by butcherguy
If the manufacturers shouldn't be allowed to put it on the chips, why should anyone be able to buy a bag of the stuff to put on their food with no government official there in the home to regulate it's use?
Originally posted by Blanca Rose
reply to post by mblahnikluver
I am sitting here looking at a bag of Dorito's that my husband bought yesterday because he is a junk food junkie. Because he insists on eating these kinds of snacks, and then dumps more salt on every meal, I think this is a good idea.
According to the package I am reading, a serving of these Dorito's contains 8% of your daily allowance of salt. The serving portion is 11 chips. Now, let me ask you how many people who eat Dorito's sit and count out every 11 chips to figure out their salt intake, or stop at 11 chips?
Then add to it, any other processed sort of food, from cheese, to ham...etc. People really do overdue salt, even if not intentionally.
I am one of those people that read a label on just about everything I eat, or purchase at the store.
I am also one of those people who puts a substitute for salt in the salt shaker at home because my husband doesn't care how much salt he eats, as long as the food tastes just right to him.
He's not a healthy person to begin with, having MS, kidney problems, and high blood pressure which salt only intensifies.
I guess my point is, that some people do need regulating because they won't do it for themselves.
Hidden hazards of nano-ingredients
I never thought I'd say this, but there's something in your food that's even worse than sugar... and this microscopic new threat isn't even listed on the ingredients label.
These tiny terrors are called "nanoparticles" or "nanomaterials," and they've been scientifically engineered to make foods look better and last longer.
But when it comes to nano, just say no-no -- because nanotechnology, as it's called, is wildly unregulated and dangerously untested. In fact, we have no idea at all what this junk might to do humans -- yet you're probably eating it right now.
Welcome to your new life as a supermarket lab rat.
What little we do know is downright frightening: A two-year study on animals at UCLA found nano-titanium dioxide -- the most common nanoparticle -- caused DNA and chromosome damage, according to AOL News.
The researchers say this kind of severe damage could lead to cancer, heart disease and brain disease... and yet these nano-particles are turning up in everything from fruit and vegetable coatings to salad dressing to ice cream.
We used to call that food tampering. Instead, the mad scientists behind this sick scheme are considered industry pioneers.
Meanwhile, the FDA is so in the dark on this one that they won't even admit it's in your food... even if its own experts say it is. In fact, the AOL News report found that 20 of the world's top food makers have their own nano-labs or contracts with universities to develop nano-ingredients for them.
And because there's no requirement to list these particles on nutritional labels, there's no way of knowing if your food has been nano-tainted... and therefore no way to avoid it.
It's reaching the point where the only way to be safe is to grow your own -- and if you have the time and space, don't wait -- spring is here. Start planting today.
Are you getting enough salt in your diet?
I just read a report online that flies in the face of what conventional medicine has been pushing on the public for years. New research suggests not eating enough salt could be WORSE for your heart than consuming too much of it.
Yawn. Excuse my lack of enthusiasm. After all, this is old news to me – and it should be to you as well. I’ve been telling you for years that salt is good for you.
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Oh silly me....
Originally posted by Blanca Rose
Originally posted by butcherguy
If the manufacturers shouldn't be allowed to put it on the chips, why should anyone be able to buy a bag of the stuff to put on their food with no government official there in the home to regulate it's use?
I think you have this all wrong, but understandably. Where has anyone mentioned that they can't put salt in the chips? As people have mentioned, salt is needed in everyone's diet to a degree. The amount of salt in some things needs to be limited, not completely done away with.
Easy to change in the Nanny State!
Originally posted by Blanca Rose corn bread, gumbo's, chicken and dumplings........if that is what some folks were raised on, they won't change their habits so easily when it comes to what they are used to.
Number one cause of death and injuries in the home are from falls.
Originally posted by airvicemarshal
Say, why don't they wrap the entire population in foam rubber and lock them in the basement to make sure that no harm comes to them at the same time?