Omelet > wrote:
> (Steve Pope) wrote:
>> J. Clarke > wrote:
>> >Do Alton Brown and The Food Network claim to cook _healthy_ or cook
>> >_tasty_? If you don't like salt don't use it. But it is not your place
>> >to tell others how to live their lives.
>> This would be valid if Americans were more careful with their
>> health, got their blood pressure checked regularly and any
>> hypertension treated. In Europe everybody does that but not
>> here. A fraction of the untreated hypertensives in the U.S.
>> are sodium-sensitive. Therefore, it will save taxpayer money to
>> have an industry-wide salt reduction.
>> So while I generally believe in peace, love, freedom and
>> libertarianism, since it will save me money to regulate salt,
>> I'm for it.
>And sugar reduction (especially those who are addicted to soft drinks)
>might reduce the national diabetes epidemic...
Yes, particularly HFCS.
Although we don't know the total causes of that epidemic, and
it may overtake us before we find out....
S.