Junk Food Ban/Regulation

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Michael-5 said:

Yes that's true, but accuracy is important. From the few statistics course I've taken I know that the World Factbook is accurate, just a tad outdated. Either way, we have similar numbers.

LOL about arsenic. Actually Arsenic is found in Apple Seeds in small doses, and people do eat those (but you shouldn't).

Your body needs salt, but very very little. The Nutrition stickers on the back of Canadian food products is 2,000mg (miligrams!, or 2 grams a day), and this is based on a 500g daily diet (about 2,000 calories). Most things exceed this, a slice of pizza is about 0.6-1 gram of salt, so 2 slices of pizza make up your daily recommended salt intake. A 6 inch subway sandwich ranges from 1.2-2.5g of salt, and that's suppose to be healthy. Pop only has 65mg (about 3%) per can, but it's a complete unnesessary additive, pop in Europe has no salt and taste much much better.

Regulating salt in the USA would not increase the price of food, and realistically increase average life expectancy by a couple years. It might be difficult to impose, but it would be the most beneficial health regulator in the USA, and Canada.

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Plus the big problem with salt is you need Potasium to balance it out. Your body regulates salt in the body by something called the K/NA pump (sodium/potassium pump). If you have too much salt in your diet, your body tells you to drink (makes you thirsty) to pee out the salt. Because of this, high salt diets are one of the major causes of haeart attack/strokes (your blood vessels need to expand to handle the higher volume of diluted blood, and when you'r older your arteries are more rigid, preventing expansion leading to a heart attack/stroke).

Anyway, I went on, but basically very few people eat too little salt in their diet, most people eat too much, especially in comparision to potassium (this is why it;s good to eat banana's and drink orange juice).

Sorry, I'm a bit of a health nut.

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P.S. If you need caffience in your diet, switch to black/green tea. It only has 1/3rd the caffiene of coffee/pop, but It's so much better for you then pop. I mean the average non diet pop has 9 spoons of sugar, and diet pops have aspartame, which is worse. Plus Green teas have other herbs which help with weight loss. One of my friends went from 240-160/170lb on a green tea diet (only drank green tea, but ate the same food as before). Now he's a huge womanizer

Mhm, not disputing World Factbook by any means - it's just outdated. My source pointed to a study by the OECD whose budget is 347 million EUR, just to add to the validity. 

Arsenic can be found in food items, but arsenic isn't a food was my point. Just as potassium isn't a food, but too much can kill you and it's prevalent in bananas.

Not sure how you can suggest increased life expectancy by imposing salt regulation. I don't think there are any studies on this. Feel free to share though.

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Didn't know about the potassium/sodium balancing act. Guess I'll have to start buying bananas again. Or at least eat them before they rot.

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I've been hooked on diet mountain dew for a long time. I might experiment with switching to green tea; no doubt it's far more beneficial to health as soda adds nothing of value really.