New York State Assemblyman Trying to Outlaw the Use of Salt in the Preparation of Food in Restaurants
March 11th, 2010Via: New York Daily News:
If State Assemblyman Felix Ortiz has his way, the only salt added to your meal will come from the chef’s tears.
The Brooklyn Democrat has introduced a bill that would ban the use of salt in New York restaurants – and violators would be smacked with a $1,000 fine for every salty dish.
“No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food,” the bill reads.
That is authoritarian. But there appears to be a strong link between alzheimer’s or dementia and hypertension. It’s hard to understand why salt plays such a role when salt was a historical food preservative and nearly all younger people are able to guzzle potato chips, and young people may have hypertension w/o dementia. However, I think some older people lose NaCl regulation in their arteries, almost like developing wrinkles at a certain age. Cutting salt quickly reduces their blood pressure. It seems like just doing public health campaigns for people over 55 would get the idea across