{"id":4864,"date":"2010-04-20T12:04:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T16:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4864"},"modified":"2010-04-20T12:04:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T16:04:15","slug":"praising-the-salt-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4864\/praising-the-salt-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Praising the Salt Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank heaven for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saltinstitute.org\/  \" target=\"_blank\">Salt Institute<\/a>!\u00a0 Surely the Framers of the First Amendment and America\u2019s first sociologist, Alexis de Tocqueville, would appreciate collections of individuals banding together to inform the public \u2013 and the government \u2013 of the benefits of salt.\u00a0 With today\u2019s headlines proclaiming an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/04\/19\/AR2010041905049_2.html?hpid=topnews \" target=\"_blank\">FDA crackdown on sodium<\/a> in food, now is the time to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saltinstitute.org\/About-salt \" target=\"_blank\">about salt<\/a>, its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saltinstitute.org\/Uses-benefits \" target=\"_blank\">uses and benefits<\/a> and the current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saltinstitute.org\/Issues-in-focus\" target=\"_blank\">issues in focus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>True, the assault on individual freedom and responsibility by the Obama Administration is startling, as evidenced by this quote from one of its friends in academe:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most salt eaten by Americans &#8212; 77 percent &#8212; comes from processed foods, making it difficult for consumers to limit salt to healthy levels, experts say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t just rely on the individual to do something,&#8221; said Cheryl Anderson, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who served on the Institute of Medicine committee. &#8220;Food manufacturers have to reduce the amount of sodium in foods.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course what she really means is <em>making<\/em> food manufacturers reduce the amount of sodium in foods by federal fiat.\u00a0 This kind of bureaucratic paternalism will only be made easier with implementation of ObamaCare.\u00a0 But as long as there are industries willing to energetically (and stylishly) present consumers and policy makers with resources from organizations like the Salt Institute, the Republic \u2013 and sanity \u2013 stands a chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank heaven for the Salt Institute!\u00a0 Surely the Framers of the First Amendment and America\u2019s first sociologist, Alexis de Tocqueville, would appreciate collections of individuals banding together to inform the public \u2013 and the government \u2013 of the benefits of salt.\u00a0 With today\u2019s headlines proclaiming an FDA crackdown on sodium in food, now is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[668,1136,1137,35,1134,1135],"class_list":["post-4864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barak-obama","tag-fda","tag-freedom","tag-obamacare","tag-salt","tag-salt-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4864"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4874,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864\/revisions\/4874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}