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Bill To Ban All Salt In Restaurant Cooking
lord_rotorooter writes "Felix Ortiz, D-Brooklyn, introduced a bill that would ruin restaurant food and baked goods as we know them. The measure (if passed) would ban the use of all forms of salt in the preparation and cooking of food for all restaurants or bakeries. While the use of too much salt can contribute to health problems, the complete banning of salt would have negative impacts on food chemistry. Not only does salt enhance flavor, it controls bacteria, slows yeast activity and strengthens dough by tightening gluten. Salt also inhibits the growth of microbes that spoil cheese."
All food products sold in grocery stores should have a simple
red, yellow, or green icon prominent on their packaging.
- Red would be high simple carbs or high salt or has transfats.
-Yellow would be "iffy foods" which have moderate simple-carb levels,
fat levels, and low salt.
-Green would basically be veggies or very high-fibre carbs or
plant protein etc.
Or the most complex you could go would be separate
colors for heart health (lots of salt or fat = bad = red)
and metabolic health (lots of simple carbs bad = red)
So a red heart icon beside a yellow circle would indicate something
really bad for your heart if you keep eating them, but so-so for
developing diabetes or obesity.
This would raise awareness, and if you shopped and bought lots
of "Green" and some yellows, and maybe one "red" for the week,
you'd be a healthy human, diet-wise at least.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
...there's no reason to get all worked up about it as it has 0 chance of ever passing.
Not been keeping up with the current healthcare insurance bill, have we?
You wouldn't be able to pass the vision test.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Your blind tribalism is showing. If you ignore which team you want to cheer for you'll see there were far worse on both teams. Ford and Bush Jnr probably tie for last place, a lot of people have fond memories for Reagan for some unknown reason but he's the guy that managed to restart the cold war when the USSR was already falling apart, made us fear the bomb again and nearly destroyed the economy doing it (plus his massive ransom paid to Iranian terrorists and the Lebanon "show the flag" debacle convinced all the potential terrorists in the world that the USA was weak). Nixon was even hated by his own party and considered an outsider so couldn't get much done. There is a long list of failures before you get to the guy that was voted out becuase he let the Shah go to a US hospital. Even LBJ should get a mention for committing a lot of US troops in a pointless move to help with French colonialism.