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this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2023
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I'm not talking a specific meal or a specific day. If you have no processed food in your diet you will need to add salt. So if you eat processed foods sometimes that will be your salt intake.
I think you're really overplaying this salt thing. Salt is not the reason for this obesity epidemic.
Because they don't know how to cook basic meals. This is my whole point. We need to teach people how to cook, make it mandatory.
And you are the slowest cooking when you are a beginner. When you know how to cook it's much easier to bang out a meal. This is also why we need to teach it early so people can get their practice in. In school in the perfect opportunity.
No salt is not the main cause of obesity, but it does help contribute to it.
The main cause of obesity is the inability to control your food intake.
Snacking on healthy foods is not bad, but eating the amount for a meal as a snack throughout the day is.
I know the half a cup serving isn’t enough for majority of people. Serving sizes are based on caloric intake v activity. But most people don’t feel as though they get enough to eat based on caloric intake. 3000 calories a day may be fine for some people, but not everyone. Once again it’s calories versus activity. And society as a whole has become pretty lazy.