"Cindy Fuller" > wrote in message
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> In article
> >,
> Ranée at Arabian Knits > wrote:
>
>> In article >,
>> George > wrote:
>>
>> > It sure seems lots of folks no longer like or care about any
>> > flavors/tastes except sugar and salt.
>>
>> The conspiracy theorist in me thinks it is deliberate. If you add
>> enough sugar and salt to food, it is all that people will want. It
>> takes a slow acclimatizing to it, though, as the quantities added to
>> packaged foods now are jarring to people who aren't accustomed to it.
>
> It's not a flavor per se, but I would also add fat to the mix. Witness
> some of the recent culinary abominations of the fast food joints.
> Mercifully, some of them have gone the way of Space Food Sticks, but
> many remain to wreak havoc.
>
> I'm sure I've told this story here before, but during my clinical
> rotations I saw a patient in the hospital for raging high blood
> pressure. He'd been to the Parkland (Dallas) ER several times before
> for this condition, but nobody had bothered to ask about his normal
> consumption of food and drink before I walked into his room. This man
> drove a gravel truck around the county. He would stop and get a Big
> Gulp at 7-11, drink the soda, THEN shake salt liberally into the
> remaining ice and drink the resulting brine. He'd also dip fruit and
> veggie slices into salt and eat them, plus add lots of salt at the
> table. My back-of-the-envelope calculation estimated that he was
> getting at least 7 grams of SODIUM (roughly 1 tablespoon of SALT) per
> day. Even if his truck wasn't air-conditioned, nobody needs to
> replenish that much sodium per day under normal conditions.
>
> This salt-o-holic phenomenon is not limited to folks at lower income or
> education levels, alas. My work partner in crime, a PhD nurse
> practitioner, has a salt tooth. When I give her the hairy eyeball about
> her salt consumption, her reply is "It's a Southern thing." (Girl lived
> in Georgia and Texas for many years.) Is it any wonder that there is a
> "Stroke Belt" that encompasses most Southern states?
>
> Cindy, jumping off the soapbox

Scary stuff
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