On 26 Dec 2005 16:16:38 -0800
"chembake" > wrote:


> Any formulator does not care if anybody has certain diet related
> disease as that is only the minority of the consumers who plan to appl
> the recipe at home.; unless that is his or her goal to formulate for
> these minorities.


The problem is that there are a large number of people who literally
believe that salt is unhealthy in any amount and should be removed from
their diet entirely.

The 'low sodium' trend has actually been blamed in part for an increase
in goiter and other thyroid ailments in Australia. They have iodized salt
as well, but it's become unfashionable to consume salt. The other factors
identified were a decrease in seafood consumption and relaxed dairy
sanitation regulations that no longer require that holding tanks for milk
be sterilized with iodine.

You can't always apply logic to the things humans do. There's an axiom
in marketing that people don't want things that are healthy, they want
things that they believe are healthy. Sometimes people do things that are
just dumb.