Salt Assault

The American Medical Association wants everyone to cut back on salt. Why? Um, the group isn't really sure, but is petitioning the government on your behalf anyway.

The American Medical Association recently asked the FDA to remove sodium from its list of food additives generally recognized as safe. That's right. Saccharin can stay, but sodium's got to go. Call it the physicians' preemptive strike. "There's no way to tell which chronic health problems will result after years and years of a high-salt diet," explains Stephen Havas, MD, vice president of science, quality, and public health for the AMA. "We'd rather people not be put at risk at all."

Quick, somebody ban the stuff!

Comments

[Timothy]

You'd think physicians of all people would remember that salt is a nutrient vital to proper cell and nerve function.