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We have a huge salt problem. Millions will die without action, WHO warns.
WASHINGTON POST VIA YAHOO ^ | March 15th, 2023 | Leo Sands

Posted on 03/15/2023 2:07:34 PM PDT by Mariner

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To: TTFX

Everyone can consume salt to taste and have no problem. Just so long as they are cooking from scratch. Hell, even the saltiest popcorn is no issue.

It’s the sodium in prepared foods that is killing them.


101 posted on 03/15/2023 6:43:53 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Clutch Martin

“Cook from scratch, it ain’t that difficult. Problem solved.”

100% correct.


102 posted on 03/15/2023 6:44:37 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

all right...this kind of begging question is a common leftist ploy and not worthy of any conservative, but i’ll answer it on this forum.

even too much water is after all poisonous. salt, apart from being a gift of God and one of the necessaries for life, should be consumed in sufficient quantity to maintain health in an individual, as should all foods. certainly, imo, there should be no authority or so called ‘expert’ establishing or worse mandating the right level of salt (or any thing we take into our bodies) for any individual. the ‘right’ level is an individual decision. advice from others is of course free and worth as much.

such health and nutrition experts’ advice in the last 50 years has led to our healthy and vigorous children becoming obese and unfit for even mild to moderate activity in my memory. and i’m only in my late 60’s. imo, the same ‘self help’ advice that has rendered our youth unfit and out of breath, has also rendered many of my generation moribund.

if any bureaucrat or soft ‘scientist’ wants to step forward with advice, let me at least see them demonstrate that they are fit as fiddle and can run all day before i listen seriously.


103 posted on 03/15/2023 7:06:24 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: Mariner

A Big Mac - the worst thing I could quickly think of for you to eat - has 1010 mg of salt in it.

So- for people to eat 10g, or 10000mg, that’s the equivalent of 10 Big Macs, daily.

I won’t say that people probably eat too much salt, but these bureaucrats with an agenda, are utterly wrong, imo.


104 posted on 03/15/2023 7:15:07 PM PDT by wbill
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To: dadfly

such health and nutrition experts’ advice in the last 50 years has led to our healthy and vigorous children becoming obese and unfit for even mild to moderate activity in my memory

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I think the quality of food people sell, with their harmful additives, contributed.


105 posted on 03/15/2023 7:17:40 PM PDT by TTFX
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To: TTFX

no doubt.

however, i’ll remind you the FDA approved many of those ‘additives.’ additives, sounds so innocuous doesn’t it. and approved them usually with a substantial greasing of gov’t palms.

and it’s not just additives and it’s been going on for a long time. farmers have been subverted by big ag. i recall reading that Rockefeller himself campaigned against healthy raw milk to corner the milk market for pasturized.

then they said the milk was bad, then butter was bad, then eggs were bad (think of it, nearly the perfect food was deemed bad), salt was bad, coffee was bad. on and on. it’s all so evil.


106 posted on 03/15/2023 7:36:04 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: dadfly

People who consume seed oils have excess omega 6 fats.

Seed oils are more than 50% omega 6 fats. Most foods are less than 5% omega 6 fats.

People started making seed oils in the 20th century. Before that, all foods were less than 20% omega 6 fats, so it was impossible to consume the amount of omega 6 fats people consume today.

Omega 6 fats make people fat and cause cancer. People of each generation have more omega 6 fats in their bodies.


107 posted on 03/15/2023 7:43:23 PM PDT by TTFX
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To: markman46

And Sugar Beets.


108 posted on 03/15/2023 8:14:10 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk
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To: TTFX

i like olive oil. is that a seed oil or a fruit oil?

what do you think of flax? such a useful plant, imo.


109 posted on 03/15/2023 8:15:58 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: Mariner

I don’t each much processed food, and I get muscle cramps. Maybe I have too little salt.

Is it premature of me to simply presume anything from the WHO is horse crap? This sounds like Michelle Obama all over again.


110 posted on 03/15/2023 8:20:29 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: dadfly

Olive oil is a traditional oil. Coconut oil and palm oil are traditional oils. Olive oil is 10% omega 6 fats. They’re not extracted from seeds.

Corn oil, soy oil, canola oil are seed oils.

I don’t know about flax oil. It’s a seed oil, but I think some people take it in small amounts. That will not be excess omega 6 fats consumption.


111 posted on 03/15/2023 8:29:21 PM PDT by TTFX
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To: dadfly
The FDA has been bought and paid for by big food for years. The food pyramid is upside down. Researcher have sold out to big pharma and big food.

Check out Calley Means on YouTube. A former big food corporate insider drops the dime on how big food controls science and the FDA.

Coke lobbied to keep soda on the list of things you can buy with your SNAP card because it made them millions every year.

Go look at the Tufts University food Compass where high sugar Kelloggs cereal is ranked healthier by far than an egg. Science ha sold out !

112 posted on 03/15/2023 8:34:59 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk
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To: Newbomb Turk

Why do Kellogg’s have so many additives? Is something with so many additives a food? Is it a food or a supplement?


113 posted on 03/15/2023 8:48:49 PM PDT by TTFX
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To: ElkGroveDan
Seven million people could die . . . unless governments immediately pass tighter restrictions

When salt is outlawed...only outlaws, cooks and sailors will have salt.

114 posted on 03/15/2023 8:50:34 PM PDT by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads and Grumpy Grandads.)
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To: TTFX
Actually it’s neither. Those additives are for texture and something called mouth feel. Highly refined grains are not healthy. Cereal makers doctor them up to trick you into thinking they are healthy. Some of those additives are addictive. That’s what keeps you coming back for more.

Studies show that sugar is more addictive than cocaine. Both stimulate the same Dopamine receptors in the brain.

115 posted on 03/15/2023 8:57:17 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk
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To: Newbomb Turk

agreed. and thx for the info.


116 posted on 03/15/2023 9:01:51 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: Newbomb Turk

What are “highway processed foods?” Road kill?


117 posted on 03/15/2023 11:02:28 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: jonrick46

AKA road kill


118 posted on 03/15/2023 11:14:40 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Mariner

I really enjoy seasoning food with good old salt. My rule of thumb is that if it tastes good it probably has too much salt. The one exception is yellow mustard. Very flavorful and only 2% of recommended daily sodium intake.


119 posted on 03/16/2023 4:41:42 AM PDT by Don@VB (THE NEW GREEN DEAL IS JUST THE OLD RED DEAL)
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