No more salt in BA restaurants

[texxaslonghorn]

You can smoke whataever you want. Let me know how smoking salt goes.

 

[Matt84]

Well, whoever commented that this will be enforced about the same as the no smoking law is probably correct. Going back and forth from BA and the States has made me appreciate the order in the States; people actually stop at stop lights/signs, obey no smoking laws, and are scared to speed (for the most part--at least compared to BA). I can't tell you how many times I've been in a car flying down a highway in BA at around 170 kph, and all without a cop in sight.

Relative to BA, people don't bribe cops in the States.

Please don't take this as a BA-bashing post. I love the place. But the order of things is what makes me feel at ease when I'm in the US.

Why I feel the same way, but that's so besides the point.
Behaving in a civic manner, like stopping at lights so you don't kill someone, or not smoking where the owner decided it was a non smoking place, is all good but what does it have to do with the case of Government deciding upon salt shakers in cafes?

Behaving in a civilized manner and respecting the law are not the same thing as being complicit with social engineering.

I would stop at an intersection, light or no light, law or no law, because I really don't want to run over someone and vice versa.

I will consume as much or as little salt as I wish, with respect only to the law of my body, which some call, the higher law

geeez

 

[philamote]

The debate on whether it's justifiable to ban or limit access to unhealthy products is fine and productive.

However, once again, to get some clarification, I'll ask:

Does this restriction on salt in restaurants actually apply to the city of Buenos Aires itself?

The original article implied that this was only being enforced in Buenos Aires Province, although the wording was ambiguous.
This article also focuses on the Province and not Capital Federal:

http://www.lanoticia1.com/noticia/e...nsion-reduciendo-el-consumo-de-sal-14629.html

So, unless you dine in Olivos every weekend, it's more likely than not that your indulgent salt-pouring habits are not going to be affected by this law.

People, relax.

(Talk about hypertension...)

 

[Ries]

The salt here sucks anyway.
My wife has been known to carry a small pepper grinder with fresh black peppercorns in it in her purse, to season her own food.
If this salt thing becomes widespread, she will probably add a small container of decent Kosher salt to her kit...

 

[Gringoboy]

Repeat after me:
NANNY STATE NANNY STATE NANNY STATE NANNY STATE NANNY STATE

 

[captainmcd]

It's an old debate, should you make your own decisions and mistakes, or should the government make them for you. If the government is responsible for your medical care and health, it then seems reasonable that they should have a say in regulating your activities and your diet. If people are willing to trade their freedom for security they will often wind up with neither.

 

[elhombresinnombre]

It's an old debate, should you make your own decisions and mistakes, or should the government make them for you. If the government is responsible for your medical care and health, it then seems reasonable that they should have a say in regulating your activities and your diet. If people are willing to trade their freedom for security they will often wind up with neither.

Very true. As well as private cover, Argentina has a very strong socalised medicine too so it's understandable that the government would want to legislate in a way that would hopefully have a positive effect on the cost of medical provision.

Call me an old cynic but I can see revenue raising possibilities behind this too.

 

[John.St]

No more salt in BA restaurants - http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/06/11/argentina.salt/index.html?iref=obnetwork

As ridiculous as it can possibly be.

The new law comes as a thorough study of 3,681 people show no connection between a more than moderate intake of salt and diastolic blood pressure (the important part).

"Conclusions In this population-based cohort, systolic blood pressure, but not diastolic pressure, changes over time aligned with change in sodium excretion, but this association did not translate into a higher risk of hypertension or CVD complications. Lower sodium excretion was associated with higher CVD mortality."

http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/305/17/1777.abstract

 

[MizzMarr]

Could be that the president recently lost her husband to a heart attack, misses him, and now wants to legislate against the kinds of behaviors that can be loosely linked or speculated to play a part in his type of demise.

 

[tomdesigns]

Very true. As well as private cover, Argentina has a very strong socalised medicine too so it's understandable that the government would want to legislate in a way that would hopefully have a positive effect on the cost of medical provision.

Call me an old cynic but I can see revenue raising possibilities behind this too.

Very warm and idealistic fantasy comfort thoughts.. may the warm and fuzzy God of Very Strong Social Medicine bless you this night!

Public medicine here is pathetic, want to die! Dive into social medicine here.. Every Arg I know with two dimes avoids public medicine here like the plague. Well that is if they have a serious condition, if they need some meds and a pat on the back they flock to the social medicine.

NOTE: I am not insulting anyone and I am not being critical... I am just saying!

All that being said... good medical care is VERY affordable here just cover your back and make sure you have a Western doc to consult and get more then one opinion every single time.