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BUT...I'm normal weight and my BP is healthy. It's called GENETICS. Woo hoo. Earth to America: SALT IS ONLY BAD FOR YOU IF YOU HAVE A FAMILY HISTORY OF HEART ISSUES. So stay the fuck away from my salt and keep your laws off my body, or I will personally blow some tar-ridden cancer straight up in your pedantic face.

P.s. You WILL die.
Posted by spartacus]]> Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:33:11 -0700 Portland Mercury
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/health/3…

Corn flakes taste "metallic." = gross.
Posted by Alison Hallett]]> Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:31:08 -0700 Portland Mercury
Most of the sodium we consume, whether from processed food or Mortons table salt, is chemical waste. It's a bi-product of other industries. It's bleached and processed, sometimes out of giant piles contaminated by hydraulic fluid from the machines that move it around. But hey, no reason to freak out. Eat less processed food and it won't be so bad when you do get the munchies.

I suggest those who truly love salt to get on up to The Meadow on N. Mississippi and see their nearly 100 varieties of natural salt, including delicious salted chocolate (sweet Xenu, you don't know what you're missing!) and find out more about salt's amazing role in civilization.
Posted by Suburban Porn King]]> Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:30:51 -0700 Portland Mercury
It's not the salt, it's the crap it's in. And it's in the crap because that's what makes it taste good, and that's the way I like it, and the government had better keep their noses out of my cheetos. Being fat is still legal. Hell, SMOKING is still legal. And dinking. Excuse me while I go indulge every bad behavior I can.

Just kidding.. I'm a pansy whose quit everything in hopes of 2.4 more years of life. :(
Posted by PDXwahine]]> Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:50:55 -0700 Portland Mercury
If a restaurant is over-salting, then it's simply a bad restaurant. It doesn't need regulation. It needs a bad review.

Sure, salt in processed food makes the shitty product taste way better, but I think it's the least of processed food's problems. I'd be way more concerned about all of the corn, chemical additives derived from corn, and fat.

These regulations will not work as long as people can salt food themselves.
Posted by Patrick A. Coleman]]> Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:39:48 -0700 Portland Mercury
I thought that paragraph was HI-larious. Seriously. Comedy gold.

Also, last I checked, my blood pressure was absolutely normal and my truffle salt wasn't destroying the planet. You should be more upset about me being a truffle-salt eating elitist fuck than some kind of... What? Contrarian earth raping republican? It doesn't track.

I have advocated for the policies you mention, but I also believe this idea that cooking from scratch is some god-awful expensive burden is complete bullshit. Find the time to boil some potatoes, or bake a whole chicken. It's not that big of a deal.You should be pissed that we live in a world where processed foods have erased our societies wherewithal to cook for themselves. I know I am.

But on the balance, I agree with you. Thanks for participating in the discussion!
Posted by Patrick A. Coleman]]> Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:31:48 -0700 Portland Mercury
Also, cooking from scratch with fresh ingredients is great. It's also time-consuming and expensive and takes a long time to learn. You ought to use your soapbox to advocate policies to improve things for the people relying on processed foods: an end to irrational agricultural subsidies, community support for cooking classes, improving nutrition education in schools, subsidizing grocery stores in underserved areas, and improving the quality of packaged foods (which the salt regulations would help accomplish).

And your shitty paragraph about truffle salt? Exactly the same shit as conservatives who say, "Earth Day? Fuck that shit, I'm gonna turn my air conditioner and furnace on full blast, leave the lights on, and idle my car in the driveway all day. That'll show those chumps!" It's juvenile, unfunny, and beneath you.
Posted by eldepeche]]> Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:59:41 -0700 Portland Mercury
Nobody is saying it's the #1 cause of unhealthiness. But it's a big cause.
Posted by Stu]]> Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:34:10 -0700 Portland Mercury
Blaming the decline of American health on salt is like blaming the BP oil spew on the plumber who installed a faulty valve on a hose somewhere in there.
Posted by ($8239f8h248cerfehjf23@&*@ebdjhb23f237OCDBO#BD*(#]]> Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:33:32 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by tk.]]> Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:32:14 -0700 Portland Mercury