Word: salt
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...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. When the FDA first announced the crusade...
Jewel Food Stores, a 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...
...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 about its future. Says he: "Salt is the cheapest flavor enhancer. There is an enormous competitive advantage to loading food with salt and not telling people about it." Waxman is worried for the same reason: "We are having difficulty getting the votes to pass this legislation because of industry pressure...
...food industry's arguments against sodium labeling involves the somewhat equivocal nature of the medical case against salt. As with smoking and cancer, cholesterol and heart disease, it is difficult to prove direct cause and effect...
...link is clear. In countries where sodium intake is high, so is the frequency of hypertension. Japan is the most striking example. With a diet based largely on fish, pickled vegetables and soy sauce (1,029 mg sodium per tablespoon), the average Japanese citizen consumes nearly three teaspoons of salt a day. In the northern agricultural provinces, where salt is still widely used as a preservative, six teaspoons or more a day is not uncommon. And what is probably the highest sodium diet in the world coincides with what seems to be the world's highest rate of hypertension...