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Industry crackdown on salt could save U.S. billions 5:41pm EST By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - 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, U.S. researchers said on Monday. 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. Several governments including...
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I could be completely out of line here, but I’m just going to say it anyway. As Christians we really need to stop picking on each other. From politics to the public school system, it seems that everyone has an opinion about everyone else and we’re not afraid to share it with the world. Differences in doctrine and parenting alone can be enough to get us riled up fast. It’s a dog eat dog world out there and it seems like the older I get, the more often I need to pull over and get a rabies shot.
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has fashioned himself a kind of “Dr. Mike,” has declared war on salt in food. The city this week announced voluntary guidelines intended to reduce salt levels by 25 percent over five years. This effort follows the mayor’s earlier wars against transfats in food, unreported calories in chain restaurants, and smoking in public places. The mayor, a former smoker, concedes a fondness for salt. For one thing, his favorites foods are hot dogs and popcorn. He’s also known to be liberal with the salt shaker, even applying table salt to his pizza, as...
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When it rains, it pours for overzealous New York City food nannies. The city announced today that it has a new front in its war on food: salt. The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is asking food manufacturers and restaurants to voluntarily reduce the sodium content of foods, with the goal of slashing salt intake by 25 percent over 5 years. (If the city’s past regulatory heavy-handedness is any indication, though, it means “voluntary†in the Tony Soprano sense of the word.) As we’re telling the media today, people should take NYC’s salt proposition with a grain of...
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Some come at this as another government regulation that will strangle us. I see it as finally taking the companies that make our food to task. Over the years the sodium levels have crept up to these high levels in our food. The only way to get away from it was to spend a long time reading labels or to can your own food or go strictly fresh fruit and fresh vegetables and meat. How many people can do that?
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New York City health officials are pushing to cut the amount of salt in packaged and restaurant foods by 25 percent over the next five years,
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First New York City required restaurants to cut out trans fat. Then it made restaurant chains post calorie counts on their menus. Now it wants to protect people from another health scourge: salt. On Monday, the Bloomberg administration plans to unveil a broad new health initiative aimed at encouraging food manufacturers and restaurant chains across the country to curtail the amount of salt in their products. The plan, for which the city claims support from health agencies in other cities and states, sets a goal of reducing the amount of salt in packaged and restaurant food by 25 percent over...
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You may have seen this morning that CNN picked up a story out of Fort Wayne, Ind., on a new salt being used to melt ice on roadways, in parking lots, and other places where snow and ice pose a hazard. The product, called Magic Salt, is a residue created during – and usually discarded after – the vodka distilling process. The salt is said to be environmentally friendly and more effective than the road salt and other melting products used by municipalities and businesses. Custom Lawn Scapes in North Syracuse is the only local dealer listed on Magic Salt's...
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Hundreds of tons of salt excavated from the Department of Energy's underground nuclear waste dump in southeastern New Mexico are destined for cattle feed in Texas. The DOE's Carlsbad field office has reached an agreement with Magnum Minerals LLC of Hereford, Texas, which will buy up to 300,000 tons of salt from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, known as WIPP. Magnum Minerals has contracted for $600,000 worth of salt, most of which will go into cattle feed, company president Tim Gearn said. Cattle feed is required to have certain minerals, including salt. It's the first such sale...
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The Pittsburgh Post Gazette reports on a study released on-line in The Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology which indicates that physiology, not public policy, determines a human’s daily sodium intake. This research likely represents a important step forward in light of past and current efforts by government agencies and government funded organizations to set progressively restrictive guidelines for salt intake among U.S. citizens.
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The New York Times reports today that Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been caught “salt-handed.†Despite targeting sodium in his latest nanny-state crusade, the mayor privately enjoys pouring it on by the shaker-load: Under his watch, the city has declared sodium an enemy, asking restaurants and food manufacturers to voluntarily cut the salt in their dishes by 20 percent or more, and encouraging diners to “shake the habit†by asking waiters for food without added salt.But Mr. Bloomberg, 67, likes his popcorn so salty that it burns others’ lips. (At Gracie Mansion, the cooks deliver it to him with a salt...
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I am asking all FR Chefs to help me out in finding the way to purchase the finest salts of the world. I know it can be spendy. I am not looking for Williams-Sonoma type salts. I had an oppertunity to witness a person tell me of a very black salt, lava salt and they thought it could have been from the Mid East. Any links to the best salts of the world would be much appreciated. I was givin Cleopatric. but to no avail. Thanks Chef Freepers.
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No, "over salting" isn't code for anything nasty. The 20-year-old McDonald's worker literally spilled salt on the hamburger meat that was used to make a "Big 'N Tasty" that was served to a Georgia police officer. The police officer says the burger made him sick—and Kendra Bull, 20, spent a night in jail because of it. According to Kendra, she accidentally spilled too much salt on the hamburger meat, tried to remove it, notified her coworkers, then took a break. During the break she says she ate a burger made from the salty meat.
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A baby who died from a suspected salt overdose at a Nottingham hospital has been named by a coroner. Samuel McIntosh was reportedly born prematurely in March and had been placed on a saline drip at the Queen's Medical Centre. He died on 7 July. The hospital has apologised for "any shortcomings" in the care of the baby. Nottinghamshire Coroner Dr Nigel Chapman said Samuel died of an electrolyte imbalance. An inquest is being held on Friday.
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