Food Follies III
Table of contents for Friday Food Follies
Dateline: India; Classic News
The Hindustan Times is reporting (yet again) something that most everybody already knows: Pet Food is Healthier Than Fast Food! What next? Dewey Defeats Truman? I guess it’s a slow day in Bombay, er, Mumbai.
Why is this worthy of mention? Because my cats are harrassing me about starving them, and I’m fasting for a blood draw. That mystery meat in a pouch is beginning to look all too good…
Dateline: San Diego; Is Nothing Sacred?
News sources in San Diego are reporting that a “young man robbed a fast food manager as he was leaving to make a bank deposit” Saturday morning. What’s this society coming to? The suspect even made his getaway in a Japanese model vehicle. How sad can things get?
All they need to do is wait a while; the robber will get hungry and spend it all at the nearest fast food place. Since the police are likely to be there anyway, they can make a timely arrest and stop this social miscreant before his disease spreads further…
Dateline: Australia; The Great Salt Conspiracy
The Australian Medical News Network is reporting on an event that is completely hush-hush here in the States: A consumer group will petition the FDA to regulate salt in food. This notice breaks the ringing silence here in the USA about this critical event and its far-reaching ramifications. Apparently there is a conspiracy in the US news media to “put a lid” on this salt thing. I mean, have you heard anything about it? And why not? Can you think of anything more important to your diet that this? I mean, read some of these shocking allegations:
The petition, which cites theAmerican Heart Association, says the millions of Americans suffering hypertension could benefit from cutting down their salt intake and improve their condition.
Salt is used to increase the palatability of food but a high salt intake has been linked to high blood pressure, which is associated with cardiovascular disease.
Quite often many people’s daily intake of the mineral exceeds the need of a person’s bodily functions.
Disturbing, don’t you agree? By the time you read this, I suspect it’ll be a done deal and we’ll all be required to buy some of those little labels to put on our salt shakers. Where will the madness end? Nutrition labels on drinking water? Oh wait, that’s already been done…
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