I agree. We should also get rid of the alcohol in alcoholic beverages. Why, you might ask? Because the corporations are clearly adding the alcohol so we consume more alcoholic beverages (after all, after each one I have, I want another one even more).

Junk food is actually already incredibly expensive compared to healthy food. Most fruit and vegetables you can get for about $1/pound (or less, certain, such as "premium" apples cost more). You can buy a ridiculous amount of rice for $20. Pasta is very cheap.

On the contrary, sauces and junk foods etc, I always used a $3/pound general rule when purchasing (I would buy the junk food I wanted if it was under $3 per pound, and wouldn't if it was over).

But if you want to have pop and fast food, you're f***ed right?

I don't drink pop because it's bad for you, but if they took out most of the sugar and salt, it would be no worse for you then tea. Then I'd drink pop all the time. Hence a band would be nice.

A simple google search will also reveal a mL of water is 1000mg. So if you have 3.5% salt, that means there is 35mg of salt in every mL of water.

So you are saying that there is 40-90mg of salt in a 335mL can of pop, and that is somehow more than the 11,725 mg of salt that would be in a 335mL can of saltwater?

No, if you want to have pop or fast food, that is totally your choice. It is your choice if you want to have things that are terribly bad for you vs. making something much healthier at home.

There are TONS of choices available out there for foods that are perfectly healthy for you. There are also TONS of choices available for foods that aren't healthy (but may well taste good). Just because the unhealthy foods are something you want doesn't mean they should be forced to be healthy. That makes no sense.

Also, the maximum recommended sodium in your diet is 2300mg per day (http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/foodnut/09354.html)

As such, a pop with 50mg of salt is only taking up 2.1% of your daily level of salt. That is like...nothing.

What is REALLY going to make you ponder something now, is that the average glass of milk has about 120mg of salt in it, which is 5.2% the maximum daily recommend amount.

So are you also saying we should have people remove all the salt from milk?

I... feel like you don't know much about how science works.

That article is filled with a lot of problems.

For example the study they are saying proves it's wrong doesn't actually account for dietary differences other then salt intake.

Salt is put on unhealthier foods.  So if you don't account for dietary differences in food, and just differences in salt intake... of course you would get those results.

Most people wouldn't drink pop then though... because it would taste awful.  (well unless it had fake sugar... which, is also suggested to have negative health effects.)

If there as a market for soda without much sugar and salt....

that soda would be out there.

The market provides the products that people want.

There aren't very many healthy or vegetarian fast food chains outside a few of the most liberal areas of the US because everybody would rather have a hamburger.

And yeah... they'd rather have a gross ass McDonalds hamburger because it's a ton cheaper then if they had to make a health hamburger.  (May as well eat at a restruant for that price.)

Oh I did my math wrong there...

Still, my arguement is still valid, you don't want to be drinking 12-27% of your daily salt intake.

Coke has 75mg of Sodium in it, this is the equivalent of 0.02% salt. Our Blood is 0.6% salt, but it's also only 50.6% water (55% fluid which is 92% water) so the salinity of salt in our blood is 0.01% (0.6/50.6)

While Coke isn't as salt as salt water, it's twice as salty as our blood. Hence pop makes you thirsty