Salty

We are told all the time by different government departments, food agencies and Doctors etc what we should be eating and what we shouldn’t be eating. This is bad for us and that is good for us, they even change their minds sometimes and what was bad can suddenly become good or what we were told was good is now bad.

This leaves us not knowing who to believe and whether we should take any notice of this so called good advice. The worse thing to find out is that something that you have been lead to believe is good for your health and because of this you have consumed it on a regular basis, then suddenly new research is done and it turns out that it may not be that good for you after all.

The latest news is that cereal and bread which a lot of people eat daily contains a lot of Salt. Now cereal has been marketed as a healthy breakfast option for many years and bread has been part of most people’s diet for even more years. So these are two of the foods we eat most often and apparently two thirds of our salt intake comes from the foods that we eat most often cereal and bread being two of them.

If you have high blood pressure then you need to keep an eye on your salt intake, so to be told that cereal has a high salt intake may well be a bit of a blow as you would be right in thinking you were following a healthy diet on the information known to you about cereal being a healthy breakfast option. It seems we can be doing more bad than good when we are trying to follow a Healthy Diet through no fault of our own.

Is the answer to scrutinize every package of food for its ingredients and salt content and if we did would we actually be getting the truth from the packaging, not likely in my opinion. These things are all out of our control so we can either carry on as we were and do our best to eat what we think is healthy or we can forget buying food and make and grow all our own, which obviously in not very practical or realistic in this modern world.

I have decided to keep eating what is supposedly healthy (including cereal and bread) and make sure I don’t add any salt on top (not that you would on your cereal), so the salt cellar stays off of the dining table. It seems you can only do so much, the rest is out of our control.