Word: antisalt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...producing a more healthy population." Americans in general are becoming highly conscious of dangers that may lurk in their food. Saccharin, nitrates, sugar, cyclamates have all come under suspicion. Few are as committed on the salt issue as Food Columnist Craig Claiborne, who turned from salt addict to antisalt agitator after his own hypertension was detected. When it comes to the demon crystal, Claiborne goes straight to the point. Says he: "They should label salt just as they do cigarettes, saying that it is injurious to your health...
...watchdogs are threshing out the practical details of labeling with representatives of the food-processing industry. The aim: to work out the best way to organize and expedite both sodium labeling and reduction of sodium in packaged foods. The keynote speaker will be one of the prime movers in antisalt politics, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Arthur Hull Hayes...
Even if labeling is worked out to everyone's satisfaction, many antisalt advocates fear that the general public will still not cut down on sodium. Says Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest: "It is unlikely that the school-age child whose father or mother has hypertension will scrutinize labels, or the black teen-ager whose blood pressure is slightly above normal, or the 35-year-old trucker whose diet consists largely of convenience and restaurant foods...
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