Open Question: Diagnostic Help??????????
Here are the symptoms:
2 day old girl, has a twin brother who is normal.
Girl is cyanotic and is breathing heavily and rapidly. She has a cough and has blood pressure of 85/55. Her heart rate is 160, she’s lethargic and not eating, and she has a heart murmur. Please help me! Her brother has no symptoms.
Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:47:35 GMT
Open Question: What do you think of the government adding “legal limits” to the salt in our food?
The Food and Drug Administration is planning an unprecedented effort to gradually reduce the salt consumed each day by Americans, saying that less sodium in everything from soup to nuts would prevent thousands of deaths from hypertension and heart disease. The initiative, to be launched this year, would eventually lead to the first legal limits on the amount of salt allowed in food products.
The government intends to work with the food industry and health experts to reduce sodium gradually over a period of years to adjust the American palate to a less salty diet, according to FDA sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the initiative had not been formally announced.
Officials have not determined the salt limits. In a complicated undertaking, the FDA would analyze the salt in spaghetti sauces, breads and thousands of other products that make up the $600 billion food and beverage market, sources said. Working with food manufacturers, the government would set limits for salt in these categories, designed to gradually ratchet down sodium consumption. The changes would be calibrated so that consumers barely notice the modification.
The legal limits would be open to public comment, but administration officials do not think they need additional authority from Congress
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/19/AR2010041905049.html
“Same as a government adding “legal limits” on the amount of broken glass in your food”
Apples and oranges. From the article: “Currently, manufacturers can use as much salt as they like in products because under federal standards, it falls into the category deemed “generally recognized as safe.” Foodmakers are merely required to report the amount on nutrition labels”
The lengths the liberals will go to defend government overreach. Sheesh.
“with modern day processed foods people ARE getting way to much salt in their diets… and this is a way to try and keep people healthy”
Yeah. Through government tyranny. If you dont like the amount of salt in processed foods, then read the ingredients label, and if it contains too much sodium, then dont buy it! This way you stay healthy and we keep our freedoms too. How hard is that?
” people who want more salt in their food can put some in there”
For how long do you think the government will allow you to do that before it starts to regulate that too?
Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:51:40 GMT
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