Should Gov't Regulate Salt in Foods?

12 Votes
  • Start Date:
    1-24-2008
  • Last Vote:
    6-17-2008

Issue:

The government's gone after trans fats, now they are looking at salt. We are talking stricter limits on salt in processed foods.  Salt is used as a flavor enhancer and preservative in everything from chocolate and skim milk to canned soups.

Belief:

Salt can be a killer.  Too much sodium causes high blood pressure, a key cause of cardiovascular disease and heart attacks.

 

Herr's Lightly Salted Potato Chips
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Submitted by Wesley S. on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 19:17

I think that in snack food and some other foods it should be regulated. Hypertension, high blood pressure is the number one killer of men. It is also called the silent killer. The human body needs some salt for the sodium/phosphorous cycle to work, but beyond that you are getting too much of a good thing and hypertension, cadio-vasculor disease and heart attacks are the result.

Submitted by Chris W. on Mon, 01/28/2008 - 22:24

When I turned 18, I gained the right to make my own choices...I don't feel like the government needs to step in where my parents left off. The governments job should be to serve and protect...and otherwise stay out of my business.

Submitted by Jeff J. on Fri, 01/25/2008 - 12:58

no thanks - I like beef jerky now and then and this regulation would extinct beef jerky.

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