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...food packages labeled, not as injurious to health but simply for their sodium content, is now the concern of the public health care establishment, including such groups as the American Medical Association, the American Heart Association, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Says A.M.A. Nutritionist Stephanie Crocco: "Our immediate concern is helping people who already have hypertension to cut back, but we are also worried about anyone whose salt consumption is well above average." For those who have hypertension, reducing salt intake (and losing weight) can often lower blood pressure...
...policy against excess Government regulation, he has chosen a "voluntary" approach. Though he has made progress by mixing persuasion and pressure, he threatens "to do something mandatory" if food makers do not cooperate. Hayes' object is to convince businesses that they must 1) label for sodium content, 2) change cooking directions so that adding salt is optional, 3) reduce the amount of sodium in processed foods and 4) offer many more low-sodium or salt-free products. He plans to follow up with a consumer-education program to ensure that labels are understood. Hayes already points to some victories...
...Midwest chain, has brought out its own private-label brand of low-salt canned goods. So has Stop & Shop in New England. McDonald's, which annually sells the public 700 million lbs. of hamburger and 542 million bushels of fries, has completed a study on the sodium content of Chicken McNuggets, Big Macs and French fries. Customers who request it may now have the information in the form of a booklet with sample menus. Example: Big Mac, French fries and milk...
...Tennessee Congressman Albert Gore, is unimpressed by these achievements. Gore thinks the voluntary approach is "almost certainly doomed to failure." What is needed, he believes, is a bill to require labeling under law. Along with Iowa Representative Neal Smith, he has written legislation requiring that the sodium and potassium content be marked on all processed and canned foods governed by the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, if the total exceeds 35 mg. The bill is now before a House health subcommittee chaired by California's Henry Waxman. It has 79 co-sponsors in the House, but Gore is worried...
...China? We all grew up with these aspects of romance. Did any of those elders ever add that you'd have to scoop out boiling lava when you hit the middle of the earth en route? Of course not. They--like Buffet--were content to nurture and protect romantic ideas without exposing them to reality...