From The Metro:
More than three in four people are unaware bread and breakfast cereals are among the saltiest everyday foods, a study has shown.
The majority do not know four slices of some supermarket breads contain a third – 2g – of the recommended daily intake of salt. Asked to pick out the saltiest foods from a list, only one in eight people identified the two foods.
The Food Standards Agency said this meant millions could unknowingly be putting themselves at a higher risk of heart disease and stroke...
Oh come off it chaps, I thought you said that the sole cause of heart attacks was smoking? The only way that those statistics that said that heart attacks had fallen by over a tenth or up to a third since the smoking ban could possibly stack up is if heart attacks were only caused by smoking and by nothing else.
Or are they now going to invent a new category of "heart disease", which doesn't lead to heart attacks and isn't fatal, especially for people who enjoy their breakfast?
Stormlight
2 hours ago
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"More than three in four people are unaware bread and breakfast cereals are among the saltiest everyday foods, a study has shown."
You mean, more than three in four people didn't pay any attention to all the previous newspaper articles about the abount of salt in bread and breakfast cereals?
I take all this statistical garbage with a pinch of...ohhh chit!
LOl!
Oh crumbs! I'm toast then.
Hmm. Low salt diats do not seem to have reached us here in Germany.
I have NEVER heard salt mentioned as a problem, and When I first came here, PERMENANTLY,15 years ago, I found MOST of the food so bloody salty, that it was inedible. A lot of it still IS. (Shnitzel, for instance).
Do you have different internal organ arrangements in the U.K or something? Because I do not recall seeing any figures suggesting that Germans have higher salt related heart attack/stroke rates.
The "6 grams of salt a day" limit is complete bollocks anyway. See John Brignell's blog / book to see how to demolish a very incompetent set of "statistics".
IMHO, the base data from which the limit was derived looks no more nor less than a random scatter diagram - and all the "research" was done on a group of people known to be salt-intolerant. For everyone else, homeostasis applies - ie eat too much salt and you simply excrete more (up to the processing limit of your kidneys - somewhat less than trying to survive on seawater!!)
Aha, so that is why I haven't yet died even though I smoke lots. I haven't touched breakfast cereals for years and probably don't eat more than four slices of ( brown ) bread a week. Oi Is Saved.
Spreuth. Good point.
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