CSPI: Restaurants serve meals high in salt

Wed, 13 May 2009 11:44:00 +0000

Tuesday May 13, 2009 (foodconsumer.org) -- A nonprofit food safety group warns that some restaurants are over-loading entrees with so much salt that there is

Dick Hanneman

Wed, 13 May 2009 13:07:26 +0000

I'm sorry your story chose our February statement rather than our more recent overview and our reaction to CSPI. Both are online at http://www.saltinstitute.org/News-events-media/Releases-statements.

There are two issues here. First, high quality science has established a
firm relationship between overall dietary quality and health outcomes and, even more, that some diets claiming to be healthy have no firm science behind them. And, second, the amount of salt in a person’s diet is not an indicator of whether that person is consuming a quality diet – but how much potassium they consume is a very good indicator. Current dietary guidelines are straying from providing “dietary guidelines” and offering a combination of “nutrient recommendations,” Until we get off this ‘good food/bad food’ dichotomy and get back to talking about ‘good diets and bad diets,’ we will be offering advice based on expert opinion, but not on quality science.

The health benefit comes from quality dietary patterns like the Mediterranean Diet, not individual nutrients, foods or even meals.

donnaschmidt

Wed, 13 May 2009 20:44:49 +0000

did not find a list of reataurants and their menue items that have high salt cintents.