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The article made no mention whatsoever of the fact that there could be contrary opinion of salt as a leading cause of hypertension,” says ACSH’s Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. “They take it as a given that salt alone is causing all of these deaths, when in fact there are very few people with high blood pressure who are sensitive to salt. Read more….

Salt has been used as a skin scrub "since practically the beginning of time," Allure magazine Editor-in-Chief Linda Wells says. Read on…..

The food industry voices their concerns over salt regulation including ConAgra’s judicious use of hypertension data. Read more

From taxing soft drinks to banning bake sales, public health activists and dietary do gooders have been beating us up over what we eat and drink. Now they want to rub salt in our wounds. Click for full story.

"What we're involved in here is an experiment to see what's going to happen," says Michael Alderman, MD, chair of department of epidemiology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.” He continued, "We do not have evidence that reducing sodium is going to increase the quality or the duration of our lives," he said at a symposium on salt reductions sponsored by the American Society for Nutrition in Washington." Read more.....

So I feel that I am in a position to fulminate about the fact that Heinz is about to cut the salt content of their ketchup in order to satisfy the ninnies* at Bloomberg’s National Salt Reduction Initiative. *I originally misspelled this as ‘nannies’… and then I realized that, no, it works this way too. More to read at RS Redstate

Still, critics of the proposal argue that, in isolation, limiting salt in the diet may not lead improve public health. Jacob Sullum, senior editor at Reason magazine, says there's little evidence linking low-salt diets to a reduced incidence of high blood pressure or cardiovascular disease. Read on at the Lincoln Tribune.

America’s tyrants have now turned their attention to salt, as reported in the Washington Post’s article “FDA plans to limit amount of salt allowed in processed foods for health reasons” (April 19, 2010). Why do food processors put a certain quantity of salt in their products? The answer is the people who buy their product like it and they earn profits by pleasing customers. The FDA has taken the position that what the American buying public wants is irrelevant. They know what’s best and if you disagree, they will fine, jail or put you out of business. Read more at The Bulletin

The president of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) has rejected US proposals for a mandatory reduction in salt levels in processed foods on the grounds that they are not based on scientific evidence, FoodNavigator-usa reports.

An FDA statement read “[t]he FDA is not currently working on regulations… to regulate sodium content in foods at this time.”

While it is true that the FDA has made no official announcements regarding their stance on salt regulation, the claims that they have not begun the process and are not currently working on it are demonstrably false. Read the entire article at OpenMarket .