Heinz Ketchup Changes Its Recipe - By: Dr Bill

Heinz Ketchup, one of America's iconic brands, has succumbed to the current hysteria about salt, led by the mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, and his ally, Michelle Obama, who now heads the deluded food police. Bloomberg wants to ban salt in restaurants in New York and obviously feels this would be a terrific contribution to the
health of all New Yorkers.

Let's travel back a few years...to when there was a tremendous amount of hysteria surrounding eggs. The way the media treated that circus...you would have thought that no one today would be eating eggs. The only way to cook eggs, according to the food police, was well done, at which point they are...unpalatable.

If you ate your eggs sunny side up, or over easy, which I happen to like, you would at the very least get very sick, go to the hospital, have several operations, a couple of transfusions and be scarred for life. The same thing would happen if you ate a caesar salad, with a dressing that contained a raw egg yolk.

The food police never offered any proof of this, but the media ran the story, until people were sick of it. Now, a few years later, we're eating more eggs than ever and nobody has suffered, fallen ill, or needed body parts amputated.

Then, the food police tried to ruin hamburgers, by having them cooked to well done. Now...if you like your burger well done, that's fine by me, but I don't, and there are a number of restaurants that won't serve a medium rare burger. My revenge is to longer patronize these establishments.

Anthony Bourdain, the well known NY chef and bon vivant says that he will openly violate the Bloomberg decree and force a showdown over what the government can tell restaurant owners to do.

Let's get to the crux of the matter.

Restaurants (chains excepted), are not drowning their food in sodium. (Chains have a large percentage of their food made in commissaries, where they do add a lot of sodium.) But I can't imagine going out to eat and paying serious money for food that
isn't seasoned properly. Or fresh.

So what this boils down to is the same thing you face every day. You can buy fresh food, meat, poultry, seafood, fruit or vegetables, or you can buy stuff in boxes, or containers. If you buy prepackaged foods, they're are going to be heavy on the sodium. They're also
going to be full of a lot of other crap, that is much worse than salt in the long run.

So what I'm saying is that if you eat real fresh food, you're not going to have this problem, to begin with.

By the way, the President was out for lunch last week. Several camera crews filmed him in a regular joint where he ordered (and this is on tape), 10 chicken wings, french fries, onion rings and a soda. Bill Clinton would have been proud. Mama Michelle probably had some serious words for him later. (Like..."Couldn't you find some arugula?")

I guess it's just more of "Do as I say...not as I do."

Heinz should take a lesson from Coke, who fooled with a foolproof formula. Leave your ketchup alone.

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