DISQUS

Philip Dawdy · 10 months ago

jessice, i've been saying for a long time that once the nannies get done with smoking they are going to go batshit over food of every kind and they'll be policing peoples' homes over additives and such. i can't wait!

Jessica Lee · 10 months ago

Dawdy, so good to hear from you. I miss you.

teqjack · 10 months ago

In the UK, some areas have started searching scholchildren's lunch boxes and, if not always outright confiscating stuff, writing nasty notes to the parents.

Salt... harmful IF preexisting condition exists. Known to "cause" hypertension? Well, yes - in the subset of the population with the corresponding genetic condition.

Sabayon · 10 months ago

Recent studies indicate that eating too much salt is actually no big deal at all, provided you drink enough (which you will be inclined to do naturally when you've eaten too much salt through a newly discovered internal mechanism called "thirst"). You'll then just pee out the excess salt, so unless you have hypertension, eating too much salt...makes you pee more. Oooh, scary. However not getting enough salt relative to your water intake can cause dizziness and fainting because without sodium your body can not absorb water. But god forbid actual facts and research get in the way of our moral panic over food.