New York, NY – First it was the cigarettes, then the doughnuts. Now, Mayor Bloomberg has your pretzels in his cross hairs.
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And maybe your hot dog. Or that tasty bowl of ramen noodles.
“People are eating too much salt, me included,” Bloomberg told a crowd of health professionals gathered at the Pierre Hotel for an awards luncheon.
He had just finished touting his public health campaigns – banning smoking in public places, forcing large restaurants to post calorie info and slashing the amount of artery-clogging trans fats in local eateries – then boasted that he’s not done.
“After this, we can keep going,” Bloomberg said. “People don’t like to have somebody come in and tell them what to do, but afterward, if it turns out to be something that’s in their interest, they sure as heck say thank you.”
Stop having government regulate our daily lives. Leave some choices to “we the people.”
Enough already with the nanny state. Stick with the mandate: filling potholes, garbage collection, etc!
Carl Marks too had only the interest of the common man in mind, smoking, transfats, money and property of course !
All in the name to equalize the health of the POOR MAN!
lets regulate how much money bloomberg can have in 1 year to much money is no good
BALOONBERG;
Maybe you Tax Salt Users too…..
Would Pepper be OK????
Lock & Load
You folks in NYC are really $#
$$%^%& with this guy around.
I guess he wants to repent on having our trees and plants sprayed up with salt by his discussting watter falls.
It is simply not the business of the government to tell us what we can eat. No government in the world has that right. This is outright thuggery, and it would be even if the science were there to support it, which it isn’t. I like salt, and I have no blood pressure problems, so why shouldn’t I have as much as I like? If someone has problems with salt, let them cut down.
Don’t be such naysayers. Excess sodium is a big problem for many people though they don’t know it. Promoting information about the health risks of excess sodium and making sure people who sell food disclose the sodium content is not a bad thing. No one is saying the gov’t won’t let you eat it. Just that you have the information to make good decisions. Too many people think that just because a food is low fat that it’s healthy. Unfortunately, a lot of traditional Jewish foods are made with a lot of salt. If you are having guests for yuntiff please do them a favor, go light on the salt and let people add their own if they want to, since you don’t know who might have high blood pressure and shouldn’t have all that salt. Please also don’t dip the challah in salt before passing it out.
mike u have enugh money to buy a city of ur very own ! so please dictate overthere! but for heavens sake LET US REGULAR NEW YORKERS ALONE ALLREADY!
to #11 : No one is telling you can’t have as much salt as you like. Unfortunately at least 30% of adults in the U.S. have high blood pressure putting them at risk of a heart attack or stroke. A single high salt meal could be enough to trigger a stroke. Many women also develop hypertension while pregnant (it has something to do with the doubling of blood volume and weight gain) endangering themselves and their unborn babies. Sadly, many people aren’t informed of the risks. People at risk should have a right to know what the sodium content is in the food they are eating. While not all high blood pressure is due to salt intake, some of it is and too much salt is like poison to some people. Way too much prepared kosher food is loaded with salt, and even many jewish people who cook from scratch load up the food with salt. All that’s being advocated here is some education and disclosure. Why is everyone so hostile to that?
VERY CARING ADVICE FROM MAYOR! WE SHOULD ALL FOLLOW.
next he will ban ice cream
A couple of points: As a rule, I don’t cook with salt, but prefer to use salt at the table, let guests salt food to taste as well. That being said, challah in salt is a minhag yisroel (ask your Rav) and thus, would not be so quick to encourage people not to dip bread in salt (the table is compared to the mizbeiach in the mikdash, the challah to the lechem haponim, again, check with a Rav regarding this minhag). As far as pregnancy induced hypertension, this has NOTHING to do with salt and everything to do with poor overall nutrition, specifically, not enough protein. Without enough protein circulating, the albumin levels fall, and fluid leaks into tissues. The body tries to increase the amount of fluid circulating so that the pregnancy is not compromised, so the kidneys tell the heart to pump harder and voila, hypertension. Check the works of Dr. Tom Brewer, an OB who studied this extensively in the 1960s. Good childbirth educators know this (full disclosure, I am a former childbirth educator). In fact, Dr. Brewer recommended that pregnant women eat to appetite, drink to thirst and salt to taste, good advice for EVERYONE. Education is about letting people know how their bodies work, then getting out of the way, trusting them to make good decisions and allowing them the space to do so. Works with my clients, works with my kids. Bloomberg should trust that the same will work with the people of New York. And no, I do not think that taxpayer money should be pay for this educational initiative!
Most people don’t know when they eat out or buy something ,how much salt the product containes ,if people would know how theis company’s are fooling us by loading our “healthy”
foods with sodium .and how many sicknesses people suffer from eating transfat high sodium products high fructa corn sryup ect… you people would be flabergasted what your doing to your body !!! you people don’t even know what your doing to you body .. what mayer bloomberg is doing is letting you stay healthy not forcing anyone to do what they want ,he is telling the restaurants the most put on they’r lable on each product the amounts of calories & soduim …. also he never arrested a person for smoking ,he just said you can’t smoke in public places ,which makes very much sense ,giving the facts how unhealthy it is