Summary: Reduced Salt Diet
Caitlin Barnes
Section 001-11:20
NRT: Response paper 2
Part 1:
In favor of: • Strengths- There is enough conclusive evidence that a reduced salt diet will help decrease future health risks. This shows that over time people that they studied that had a diet that contained less salt showed a decrease risk of developing cardiovascular disease. The fact that they have a few large companies on their side somewhat trying to reduce the amount of salt in their food works well to try and get others to follow. This shows that the companies that will probably not lose as much money will show others the right and wrong ways to go about the change and then others can follow with less detriment to their own company. • Weaknesses- Not regulating …show more content…
This allows the consumer to know what they are buying; if they know what they are looking at. • Weaknesses- “The problem of overconsumption derives more from personal choice than from sodium intake under circumstances beyond one's control, such as when large amounts of sodium were added to food products without information to consumers.” This whole sentence seems to contradict his argument. That people need to regulate themselves when it comes to health and consumption of salt but then goes to say that the food industry added tons of salt without of knowing. So we are just suppose to know all of a sudden that this occurred, change our lifestyles to fit the food industry, and not eat the food that they are encouraging and pushing us to eat everyday. Also telling us the nutritional facts about salt does not help due to the fact that this is an overconsumption problem. They are not letting us know the benefits so that we will eat more. We know that we are getting enough and way more of those nutrients in salt that we need and have gone to the point of needing, in some cases, half of what we actually …show more content…
The “healthy” food is said to not sell without salt being added. They think that people like salt much and that if it is not included in the food people will not want to but the food. Overall the food industry cares about losing money by reducing the amount of salt in foods. Also salt helps to preserve the food that they are
Section 001-11:20
NRT: Response paper 2
Part 1:
In favor of: • Strengths- There is enough conclusive evidence that a reduced salt diet will help decrease future health risks. This shows that over time people that they studied that had a diet that contained less salt showed a decrease risk of developing cardiovascular disease. The fact that they have a few large companies on their side somewhat trying to reduce the amount of salt in their food works well to try and get others to follow. This shows that the companies that will probably not lose as much money will show others the right and wrong ways to go about the change and then others can follow with less detriment to their own company. • Weaknesses- Not regulating …show more content…
This allows the consumer to know what they are buying; if they know what they are looking at. • Weaknesses- “The problem of overconsumption derives more from personal choice than from sodium intake under circumstances beyond one's control, such as when large amounts of sodium were added to food products without information to consumers.” This whole sentence seems to contradict his argument. That people need to regulate themselves when it comes to health and consumption of salt but then goes to say that the food industry added tons of salt without of knowing. So we are just suppose to know all of a sudden that this occurred, change our lifestyles to fit the food industry, and not eat the food that they are encouraging and pushing us to eat everyday. Also telling us the nutritional facts about salt does not help due to the fact that this is an overconsumption problem. They are not letting us know the benefits so that we will eat more. We know that we are getting enough and way more of those nutrients in salt that we need and have gone to the point of needing, in some cases, half of what we actually …show more content…
The “healthy” food is said to not sell without salt being added. They think that people like salt much and that if it is not included in the food people will not want to but the food. Overall the food industry cares about losing money by reducing the amount of salt in foods. Also salt helps to preserve the food that they are