New York City is sued over salt warnings on restaurant menus

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A restaurant industry trade group is suing New York City's Board of Health to stop it from enforcing a new rule requiring many chain restaurants to post warnings on menu items that are high in sodium.

The National Restaurant Association said on Thursday the Board of Health unfairly burdened restaurant owners and usurped the power of the popularly elected City Council by forcing restaurants with more than 15 locations nationwide to warn diners about salty foods.

Backed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, the rule, believed the first of its kind nationally, requires restaurants to post a salt shaker encased in a black triangle as a warning symbol next to any menu item with more than 2,300 milligrams (0.08 ounce) of sodium, the daily limit many nutritionists recommend.

New York City adopted the rule, which took effect on Tuesday, in an effort to help lower blood pressure and reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/york-city-sued-over-salt-warnings-restaurant-menus-005213329.html

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Unfair burden?

Chain restaurants only tend to change how menu items are made incredibly infrequently. So you design the item once, determine how much sodium it has, once, and never again have to figure it out again unless you change how the item is made. How incredibly 'burdensome'.

[rurallib]

2. the other NRA that works hard

to keep wages for wait people and staff really low and works hard so restaurants can sell us crap.

Seems like the NRAs are out to get us.

[thucythucy]

7. The NRA--restaurant one that is--also opposed the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Because, you know, disabled people in restaurants might drive customers away.

Seriously.

So it has a long history of fronting for reactionary bunk.

[Yallow]

3. Salt Is Deadly - Not Like "They" Are Going To Tell You - Until Now....

Salt is deadly. So is pretty much everything we eat that isn't beans, fruits, nuts, or green.

Read this book if you want to live past 60.

America land of the free, home of the obese getting fatter every day......

But we love sugar, flour, meat, dairy, cheese, oils, and 5,000 calorie days!

http://www.amazon.com/Eat-Live-Amazing-Nutrient-Rich-Sustained/dp/031612091X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1449194203&sr=8-1&keywords=eat+to+live

Remember, no pill can make up for a crappy diet.

[former9thward]

12. I am past 60 and I have been salting my food since I was 6.

The OP is BS. America is a lazy country and that is the reason we are obese. Salt has nothing to do with it.

[passiveporcupine]

13. The warning was not about obesity

It was about heart attacks, strokes and high blood pressure: and may have nothing to do with weight problems.

Lots of people salt their food. We all need some salt in out diets. But eating too much salt every day can be deadly.

Be thankful you are OK. Or maybe you aren't consuming tons of salt every day when you salt your food.

Some people can smoke heavily every day of their lives and live to be 99. That doesn't mean a high percentage of smokers won't end up with lung cancer.

Statistics are your friend.

[former9thward]

17. Statistics can be your friend but also your enemy

when they are cherry picked to promote an agenda. My mother and grandmother criticized me almost every night when I was a child for my salt use. I do use a lot. Maybe I am lucky, who knows.

[virgogal]

4. Why would an adult need a warning?

I'm elderly,have high blood pressure,and have had a stroke.

I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself as I assume most New Yorkers are.

Most kids will ignore the warning as kids always do.

[TheBlackAdder]

5. Reading the first sentence of your post's body presents a different impression of care. nt

[thucythucy]

9. Off topic, but

I LOVE Black Adder.

[bedazzled]

15. we're getting ready to watch the adder christmas special

hope you've seen it -- it's a tradition in our house

[houston16revival]

6. If I had 2300 mg of sodium in a day

I would be awake for 3 nights

Seriously, I estimate my max ability to absorb sodium without complications
at around 12-1400 mg per day.

[Yallow]

8. Shoot For Under 1,000

According to Dr. Fuhrman.

http://www.drfuhrman.com/disease/default.aspx

[restorefreedom]

10. what a bullshit complaint

restaurants have to keep ingredient lists because of food allergies. there is commercial food production software that many use to compile lists of how much of each nutrient or fat etc is in the food.

this is easy for them. they just don't want people knowing the horrid horrid cardiovascular killing amounts of salt that are in their offerings.

[RichVRichV]

11. If I eat a meal with 1000mg of salt my mouth feels like I just walked out of a desert.

I find the fact that restaurants are putting 2300mg of salt in a single meal much more obscene than this rule with extremely high requirements to even trigger.

[christx30]

16. This lawsuit is so stupid.

They need to offer the information to their customers. Hell, even mcdonald's puts nutritional information on their menus.
And having the information out there can hold off the city from enacting even stricter laws.