Salt ban; use salt it could be a $1,000 fine!

[jod0565]

Honestly. Who gives a shit?

 

[Supafly]

Banning slat is a genius effort in the ways of bullshitting and creating rage without another real cause than giving policemen and the likes of them yet another job do do, as if they don't already have way too much stuff to do rather than provide safety in our cities.

But they are still ways to step it up to carry this craze one step beyond:

BAN COFFEE !!!

That's right, think of all the strokes etc. Go for it and see havoc in every bureau in NYC. And you can practically fine everybody in every bureau and have your courts busy with bullshit for ages and so many happy thieves and murderers who are safe from the usual hassle :thumbsup:

 

[Elektra Knight]

I guess they'll have to start making to menus. one for good food and one for bland food.

 

[Red Spyder]

Another example of a liberal nanny state. For people who call themselves "liberal" they seem to be much in favor of taking away people's choices (other than abortion)...ban salt, make soft drinks more expensive and therefore unaffordable, ban guns, no school choice, ban fishing......ad nauseum

 

[mrtrebus]

Salt can make or break a lot of dishes and it's a must in most baked goods, especially if there's Chocolate in it.

I had a Chocolate dessert served with olive oil & salt when holidaying in Barcelona. End of line.

 

[biomech]

Does this include Baconsalt?

That's the salt ban I'm happy with.

 

[jimnt]

Hell hospitals put salt in some foods. Pudding will not set without some salt. Big difference between 3000mg of salt and a dash here and there. Perhaps setting standard serving sizes and creating maximums might be of some help, but banning them altogether isn't the answer altogether. As this quote was written it even bans non-sodium salts and ignores non-salt sodium sources. I guess the real question was this serious or just a stunt to point out how to be over the top or a starting point for negotiation to facilitate a dramatic change and make it look like minimal (when compared to this alternative.)

 

[Will E Worm]

Salt: Don't Ban It Entirely

Too little salt -- iodized salt, that is -- is dangerous, too. It's the iodine in iodized salt that helps the body make thyroid hormone, which is critical to an infant's brain development.

A little salt is essential to good health. Healthy adults should consume salt and water to replace the amount lost daily through sweat and to achieve a diet that provides sufficient amounts of other essential nutrients.


Is the salt in your kitchen salt iodized? Most people don't know. "Most people buy just whatever one their hand grabs... and until about five years ago, it didn't really matter," says Glen Maberly, MBBS, MD, an endocrinologist and professor of international health in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.

Yet getting too little iodine -- called iodine deficiency -- is a serious issue. Iodine is an essential mineral for the production of thyroid hormones. Too little iodine in a pregnant women's diet can affect the development of the fetus' brain and can cause cretinism, an irreversible form of physical and mental retardation. Iodine deficiency during infancy can also result in abnormal brain development and impaired intellectual development.

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