I feel a tax should be levied on any food that has known poisons added such as aluminum, aspartame, fluoride (see http://charles_w.tripod.com/fluoride.html ), sulfite, and etc. or essential nutrients subtracted. I am certain this would cause an improvement in our country’s health when processors corrected the situation or, if not, when less of it was purchased. If a tax were placed on food that has had essential nutrients removed the improvement in health would be dramatic. A fringe benefit would be to enable the heavy Medicare tax to be reduced or eliminated. If everyone is getting good food most diseases would disappear and we could then devote our research to the few remaining. Perhaps you can use your influence to get such a law passed.
We talk endlessly about better health insurance. Insurance is a marvelous invention, but there is no excellent substitute for not getting sick in the first place. In any case, if everyone is healthy, the insurance premiums will go away down as a side effect no matter how they are instituted. With the extra money we could then start to pay down that miserable national debt and with the extra time, enjoy ourselves.
In the mean time, you can at least see ways that you or some one you love who has rheumatoid arthritis, heart disease, or high blood pressure can counter the loss of potassium from current junk food in this article and its links http://charles_w.tripod.com/arthritis9.html . This would have a much more advantageous affect on high blood pressure than reducing sodium. Indeed it is not the sodium that is causing the high blood pressure anyway, but the chloride associated with it, since potassium chloride increases blood pressure and sodium bicarbonate does not.
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Charles Weber of NC 8:29AM January 03, 2009
moore of VA 9:39PM January 02, 2009