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"Dietary Guidelines: With a Grain of Big Salt"
The Salt Institute was probably the most strident in their condemnation of the US Dietary Guidelines
Advisory Committee, complaining that the chair of the committee was a "vocal proponent of universal salt reduction."
Case in point: She was quoted by the American Heart Association about a CDC report about the dangers of
salt. Obviously, this means she has an "unhealthy prejudice" against salt. That’s like the tobacco
industry complaining that the people at the American Lung Association are biased against smoking.
Because cheese is one of the top ten contributors of sodium in the American diet, the National
Dairy Council stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Big Salt.
Sure, reducing sodium intake would save the lives of up to 92,000 Americans a year, but you dietary
guidelines committee people just don't understand-- salt is needed to maintain the expected flavor,
body, texture and shelf-life of cheese. It’s like trans fats: good for shelf-life, bad for human life.
In the end, they all tried blaming each other for America's dietary ills. The egg producers
argued that meat was worse. The pork producers argued that chicken was worse.
Then there was a letter from the CDPB, though--the California Dried Plum Board-- representing Big Prune.
It must be nice to work for a food trade group and actually be able to look at yourself in the mirror every day.
Alas, though, it’s not a total slam dunk, as in the school environment, evidently...
peer pressure makes eating prunes 'not cool.'