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Cut Sodium Content 25% by 2020
The Institute of Medicine is calling for the Food and Drug Administration to reduce the amount of salt in commercially prepared foods, which are typically loaded with sodium. The purpose of this recommendation is to help cut back the amount of sodium the average American is consuming and in return lower occurrence of cardiovascular disease and other health risks that plague our nation thanks to our over-consumptive diets.
The Institute of Medicine suggests that this proposal could save 100,000 lives a year just by lowering sodium in foods commercially prepared in a way that consumers probably won’t even taste. The average American is over-consuming sodium by 50% daily, about 3,400mg of sodium compared to the recommendation of 2,300mg from the federal Dietary Guidelines. This is double the 1,500mg recommendation for older people, people with high blood pressure, heart conditions, diabetes, or kidney issues by the American Heart Association. The majority of this consumption is coming from foods that already have the salt added, fewer than 25% of the average daily intake coming from the salt we add to our food at home. Companies have already been doing this voluntarily without seeing a decrease in sales, suggesting that consumers taste no difference in the product. The FDA’s involvement in making this a dietary guideline has become necessary because the food industry now adds more salt than ever to prepared foods. This gradual decrease would help the health of our nation without a second thought to the consumer.
The Salt Institute has taken a strong stance against the proposed sodium restriction as expected. They ask that legislation be halted or reversed in order to protect the health of Americans. President Lori Roman says that this could be Americans at risk for the dangers of a low-salt diet and that this violates the medical mandate to ‘first, do no harm.’ They stand opposed to 300 million Americans being treated as “lab rats in a risky trial”.
In my opinion, reducing the amount of sodium in commercially prepared foods is an excellent way to help Americans take a step toward a healthier future. Learning the risks associated with the diets typically consumed by the American people has really opened my eyes to how much our diets are to blame for the skyrocketing numbers of those plagued by health problems that they ate their way into. This is not a change that any one person will have to actually make on their own and one that will probably go unnoticed by our taste buds. The idea that this legislation would put people at risk for consuming too little sodium is absurd; the Salt Institute is simply trying to protect their profits while American people continue to eat themselves into disease, costly medical bills, and early deaths.
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