Fast food breakfast was named the top food story of 2015 in a survey by Hunter Public Relations, a New York firm that works with food clients, reported Ad Age recently. You can thank McDonald’s decision to offer some of its breakfast items all day for that.
Want half a day’s salt in one meal ? Here it is.
Love it or hate it, when McDonald’s does something, the world notices, as this survey confirms. Other reports I’ve seen say McDoanld’s business is up because of its decision, people apparently like buying Egg McMuffins at any time of day.
Sugar has come in for a lot of criticism of late when it comes to health, being blamed for a range of issues. But now Canadian researchers are saying salt is the most demon of the demon trio of salt, fat and sugar.
Americans eat too much salt, period.
“[Sugar is] not of the same impact as salt and not associated with as many diseases. Salt is worse than sugar,” Dr. Norm Campbell with the University of Calgary’s Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta said in a recent CBC News item. “About one-third of hypertension around the world is caused by excess dietary salt, so about 300 million people in the world have hypertension due to excess salt and over two million in Canada,” Dr.Campbell said.
The headline of today’s post is a parody of a famous New York Daily News headline in 1975 when then President Gerald Ford refused to back a federal bailout for the financially troubled city.
This sample page from a New York Applebee’s menu shows too much salt in every appetizer and both rib options, disgusting.
I am so glad to see New York act on salt, a killer that most municipalities and even federal regulators are ignoring, in my opinion. Restaurant food has way too much salt. Americans don’t realize what they’re being served when it comes to salt.
Just take a look at this Applebee’s menu that now, in New York, has to show items that have too much salt (noted with the salt shaker in a triangle). Almost every appetizer on the menu has too much salt, as do the ribs. Ridiculous. Continue reading “New York To Salt: Drop dead”→
Processed meats, such as hot dogs and cold cuts, are full of sodium and other things that have led me and many others to avoid them in recent years. I’m always amused by Subway calling its sandwiches healthy when they’re filled with high-sodium processed meats, for example.
Nathan’s hot dogs and waffle fries, wondrous stuff.
I posted recently about trying rice toast on a recent visit with my son and daughter-in-law in Minnesota’s Twin Cities. I had the toast at a farm-to-table place called the Co-Op Creamery.
My rice bread find from Minneapolis. A nice low-salt alternative to high-sodium white breads.
Not sure what the nutritional profile was for rice bread, I sought it out later in my visit while we were shopping at the Seward Co-op my son belongs to and shops at.
New York City is taking steps to let consumers know how much salt is in the restaurant foods they buy. The city’s Board of Health voted unanimously Wednesday (Sept. 9) to require chain restaurants to post salt shaker symbols on menus next to offerings that have more than the daily recommended 2,300 mgs, about a teaspoon, of salt in them.
Sandwiches like this are loaded with salt, now chains in New York City will need ot tell that to custoemrs.
“This really represents, to me, the next step in allowing usable information for our community to make better health decisions,” said board member Dr. Deepthiman K. Gowda. “My hope is that this impacts not only consumer practices but also impacts the practices of our restaurants.”The quote appeared in an Associated Press report on the vote.
The move will impact restaurants serving about a third of restaurant meals in the city, AP reported. I wish it was extended to all the food establishments in the city, including movie theaters selling obscenely salted popcorn; maybe someday.
New York moved early on getting calorie counts posted on menus too. I’ve seen mixed reports on whether that’s getting people to eat less.
Let’s hope this new regulation gets people to finally start thinking about the salt they consume. Heart disease is the number one killer in America and salt plays a role, even if the industry’s trade group, the Salt Institute, is saying such thinking is outdated.
I’ve seen the impact on my own blood pressure of cutting the salt I eat and so I offer a long list of ways here to cook without salt and to find the lowest salt restaurant meals you can buy when dining out.
Good luck trying to slay your personal salt beasts.
I prefer to buy pre-made marinades when possible just to save my self some time in the kitchen. But most anything pe-made is loaded with salt. But if you scan the shelves at Whole Foods, or elsewhere, you may find this product which I purchased recently, Strompolos extra virgin lemonaki marinade.
The label tries to appeal to everyone, listing that the product is gluten-free, vegan, low sodium, has no sugar, no high fructose corn syrup…the list goes on and on. It’s a reminder of how fearful everyone is about eating these days, so sad. Continue reading “Lemon chicken — here’s a low-salt marinade you can use”→
This blog, the No Salt, No Fat, No Sugar Journal, has reached another important milestone — we’ve had 25,000 views through the first five months of this year, nearly as many as it took us all of 2014 to achieve. So we’ve doubled our audience this year.
We also now have 96 other blogs following us, 194 Twitter followers and 265 Facebook followers, all representing wonderful growth from when we started in December 2012 with a mere 57 views for the month!
Cooking up more healthy foods for you in my outdoor kitchen. Thanks for reading all my posts!
If I could have a celebratory cake I would, but since I can’t, I’ll say thank you to everyone who has come to read and enjoy the posts here.
This blog began out of desperation when I discovered my angioplasty in 2012 meant I could no longer eat any of the foods I loved. I had to create a new eating and life plan. It began with completely cleaning out my pantry of all high-salt, high-fat, high-sugar foods and starting over.
Fresh and natural have become restaurant buzz words these days that people mistakenly think will always mean healthier. Sadly that is not the case, and can be far from it.
As fresh as its gets doesn’t equal low-salt, low-fat or low-sugar.
The place is a favorite of students at nearby Colorado State, the university that helps give Fort Collins its quaint vib. A niece suggested we go there because the place makes everything from scratch, including its own tortillas which I watched them create. Its website talks about its goal as providing Mexican food “as fresh as it gets.” Continue reading “‘Fresh’ Mexican food doesn’t mean low-salt, low-fat, low-sugar”→
Eating healthier definitely costs more than eating highly processed, high-salt, high-fat, high-sugar offering these days. But that doesn’t mean you have to always pay more. Here’s where smart shopping comes into play, and it’s the reason I launched a smart shopping page here.
