I've got a bone to pick with the linked USAToday story on sodium research.
While I'm not debunking their data, what jumped out at me was the comparison portion size: 1 oz.
Their research shows various bread products (English muffins, cornbread, etc) have more sodium in 1 oz of bread than the 120 mg in 1 oz of potato chips, but I know my (lack of) will power. While I can stop at 1 or 2 slices a bread, I'd have a HARD time stopping at 1 oz of potato chips.
To give you an example, they don't even SELL 1 oz servings of potato chips at our cafeteria. There is the individual bag serving (1 3/4 oz, almost twice their research control). One bag of that and you're already over the sliced bread sodium numbers.
Lately, they've changed to a 2.5 serving bag, which almost everyone I know eats at one sitting.
And now they've found space for 5 oz bags. With jars of dip near by.
Tell me, do you know any engineers? Because I can tell you first-hand that they'll sit at a computer ALL DAY and ALL NIGHT if you give them enough chips and Mountain Dew. But a loaf of bread? Na. They're not going to binge on that.
http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/story/2012-03-04/Bread-is-a-big-source-of-Americans-salt-intake-too/53357294/1
While I'm not debunking their data, what jumped out at me was the comparison portion size: 1 oz.
Their research shows various bread products (English muffins, cornbread, etc) have more sodium in 1 oz of bread than the 120 mg in 1 oz of potato chips, but I know my (lack of) will power. While I can stop at 1 or 2 slices a bread, I'd have a HARD time stopping at 1 oz of potato chips.
To give you an example, they don't even SELL 1 oz servings of potato chips at our cafeteria. There is the individual bag serving (1 3/4 oz, almost twice their research control). One bag of that and you're already over the sliced bread sodium numbers.
Lately, they've changed to a 2.5 serving bag, which almost everyone I know eats at one sitting.
And now they've found space for 5 oz bags. With jars of dip near by.
Tell me, do you know any engineers? Because I can tell you first-hand that they'll sit at a computer ALL DAY and ALL NIGHT if you give them enough chips and Mountain Dew. But a loaf of bread? Na. They're not going to binge on that.
http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/story/2012-03-04/Bread-is-a-big-source-of-Americans-salt-intake-too/53357294/1