Oscar the cat may have lost one of his nine lives after a nasty encounter with a combine harvester, but he has two new prosthetic paws to show for it.
Young, healthy people shouldn't be putting more than about 1 teaspoon of salt, or 2,300 milligrams of sodium, into their bodies each day, the CDC reminds us. Blacks, middle-aged and older people, and folks with high blood pressure should consume even less.
The salt shaker isn't the culprit. Only about 10 percent of our sodium come from salt added at the table or during home cooking.
So where are we going wrong?
Well, a big part of the problem is with foods that don't taste all that salty.
Here are five categories of food, as grouped by the researchers, that contributed a lot of salt to people's diet.
No. 1: Grain mixtures, frozen meals and soups— 530 milligrams of sodium per day
How can foods whose primary ingredient is some kind of grain be so salty? Well, the offenders here include such American favorites as pizza, burritos, tacos, egg rolls, spaghetti with sauce and frozen meals whose main course is a grain mixture.
No. 2: Ham, bacon, sausages and lunchmeats—423 milligrams of sodium per day
"Mmmm ... bacon," as Homer Simpson says. Who doesn't love bacon? Well, there are the cardiologists. And now the CDC, we suppose.
No. 3: Breads — 354 milligrams of sodium per day
Yeah, that's right. Your daily bread packs a sodium wallop. And we eat too much of it.
No. 4: Meat, poultry and fish mixtures — 286 milligrams per day
OK, we never trusted fish mixtures anyway.
No. 5: Cakes, cookies and crackers — 229 milligrams of sodium per day
Crackers, we might have fingered as salt sources, but cakes, too? Noooo!
If keeping track of food by sodium content seems daunting, there are ways to simplify the task. Avoid processed foods and restaurant meals. Cut back on bread. Eat lots of fruit, a source of only 5 milligrams of sodium per day, and eat fresh rather than processed vegetables.
For more on how we perceive the taste of salt, check out this recent story by NPR's Allison Aubrey.
@edgarblythe,
I saw this last night!! Dang!! You beat me to it.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128107345
Quote:Oscar the cat may have lost one of his nine lives, but his new prosthetic paws make him the world's first bionic cat.
After losing his two rear paws in a nasty encounter with a combine harvester last October, the black cat with green eyes was outfitted with metallic pegs that link the ankle to the foot and mimic the way deer antlers grow through skin. Oscar is now back on his feet and hopping over hurdles like tissue paper rolls.
@tsarstepan,
ever eat a slice of bread ?
7-8-9 % daily salt in one slice ... ...
@hamburgboy,
Yep. Quite an unexpected question but yes the bread I tend to eat has a value of 7 to 9% daily amount of sodium per slice.
@tsarstepan,
I was just in the store looking for sausage with an acceptable salt level, but it was all the same. I bought a lower sodium bacon, but even it had way too much of it.
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@edgarblythe,
Funny, edgar, that reminded me of an old joke about an Indian and his moccasins. Do they still make Shinola?
another oddity.
FAA has approved this little car-o-plane.
The rest of the story
http://jalopnik.com/5575383/terrafugia-flying-car-gets-faa-approval
Fine plane/car, letty. But don't use it around me. I am not a believer in it.
