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OCTOBER 2011 newsletter:
"We want to eat our cake and 'salt' too!" As Americans, we know we consume too much sodium in our diets but why don't we care?
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I didn't set out to make this "sodium month" however all of the recent press, and the ADA Conference, distributed too much information to ignore.
The three articles this month lay out in order: First, the lackadaisical attitude of the American public toward the amount of sodium that they consume on a daily basis highlighted by two separate studies. Which leads to the second article pointing out that the public does not count their sodium intake milligram by milligram and, if they did, would not know what their goal was anyway — as the dieticians at the conference did not. The recommendation here was to focus on behavior that reduces intake vs. knowing your sodium score every day.
The last article covers the Salt Institutes recent letter to Secretary's Vilsack and Sebelius pointing out that the 2010 dietary recommendations came from a 2004 IOM report that states: "Because of insufficient data from dose-response trials, an Estimated Average Requirement (EAR) [for sodium] could not be established, and thus a Recommended Dietary Allowance could not be derived. Hence, an Adequate Intake (AI) is provided." They are asking that all sodium targets and legislation be discarded unless there are actual scientific evidence/studies to back up the numbers.
All very interesting as we wait for the regulations to be published!
"Eat, drink and be scary!" ~Author Unknown
Happy Halloween!
–K. Peterson
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