Lib vs. processed food

I’m back in the saddle again ... riding high against another liberal lie in a study deprecating salt. If the major premise is false, what follows in the minor premise and the conclusion must also be false. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine supposedly shows that we can prevent 1/3 more deaths from heart attacks and strokes and trim (pun intended) 24 billion from the U.S. health care bill by reducing salt in processed foods. “The time is right now to consider efforts to...achieve population wide reduction in salt,” intake, says Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, first author of the study at the U of C, San Francisco. Where in this statement have I intuited the lie? Simple. California, San Francisco, a woman with a hyphenated name - all dead giveaways of a liberal agenda perpetrated to force the proletariat to choose to limit their intake of salt. Sounds like a Communist tactic to me. Being godless, such progressive thinking, rejects faith in both human nature and common sense in favor of dictatorial control over choices in food production and selection. Just 3 grams of salt could do ‘it,’ according to a computer simulation. “Based on other research, they ( feminists professor and her colleagues) assumed a three-gram reduction in salt would lower systolic blood pressure to 3.6 from 5.6 millimeters of mercury; a one -gram reduction would reduce the level to 1.2 from 1.9 millimeters. How scientific. Of course, now we only need to pass a law. Modest reductions could cut cases of heart disease from 60,000 to 120,000 and blah, blah, blah, reduce about 100,000 deaths a year in the U.S. Talk about tweaking numbers and twisting the arm of freedom!

Consider the cost of these small numbers. Yes, small. 100,000 is a small number. Don’t assume here that the major premise is that too much salt IS bad for one’s health. Oh no, the lie is inherent in any government sponsored, do-gooder legislation. The lie hides beneath supposedly scientific data which cries out for action. Liberal thinking jumps off the printed page when I read words like California, San Francisco and Bibbins-Domingo.

Within this lie is the truth of an agenda aimed at punishing the manufacturers (and advertisers?) of processed foods. Rather we should eat fresh, like ... France? Another lie.