sharke
Hmm I think something is definitely afoot. ... 

Was it in the bread isle? ... a foot at the whole food store. No doubt someone's looking for it. I'd make tracks, if I were you.
 
btw, was it a whole foot?

soens

sharke
Hmm I think something is definitely afoot. ... 

Was it in the bread isle? ... a foot at the whole food store. No doubt someone's looking for it. I'd make tracks, if I were you.
 
btw, was it a whole foot?

I believe the subs were a foot...

So that's why there were crumbs on the floor... here I thought someone was following me... or maybe trying to find their way home, maybe.

craigb

Moshkiae
Hi,
 
Over here in Vancouver, the nearest thing is Trader Joe's. They are not great, but are ok, and sometimes I wonder if there is a difference between them and Fred Meyer's across the street!

The nearest thing Pedro?  There are a few Whole Foods markets up here just a mile or two on the other side of the river.  There are also a lot of New Seasons grocery stores on both sides of the river that are similar.

You must not know/understand Pedro/Moshkiae a whole lot ... you know that I am partially blind and can not drive all over town to go find the store that has the Haunted House soundtrack that Craig sold for 50 cents!
 
I''ve lost most of my movie appreciation and reviews because I can't make it to the theaters at night ... and you are telling me that there are plenty of those stores ... good for them! But I can only visit the ones nearby, and those stores don't come to me!
 
Oh well ... go cry somewhere else Pedro ... sensible comments and help is simply not gonna happen in this time and space!

Sorry Pedro.  I didn't realize the extent of your vision problems.  Have you been to Fred Meyer's?  How does it compare with Trader Joe's.  Is there something about TJ's that you don't like?

There has been some interesting research (and a lot of ill-informed opinion) lately about sugar metabolism. I suspect that when the smoke clears it will likely be similar to the situation with sodium. Some people are sodium sensitive and a substantial amount will cause their blood pressure to rise. Others can tolerate larger amounts of salt and not have any noticeable adverse effect. The adverse effect on people with heart failure is much more dramatic.
 
As a public health measure advising low salt makes sense. You will definitely benefit a small percentage of the population by targeting the entire population. But you can be nearly certain that most of the population is not getting much if any benefit. I have not been able to find any reference for the number needed to treat  to prevent associated conditions with sodium restriction in an unselected population, but I expect it is pretty large.
 
Still if you have the time to read labels and can afford specialist foods there is a chance you can do yourself some good.

I used to LOVE salt - the saltier the better. Then I started taking better care of myself and reading label - and that's when I realized just how much there was in everything... Only a 10th of your intake comes from the shaker. 
 
An entry consisting of a bowl of soup w/ 2 or 3 crackers and a tiny bit of butter and you've exceeded your suggested daily intake. And I don't know about you, but I'm a big guy and I need a whole lot more than soup and crackers for my meal... Incidentally, I remember that, at my parents when we'd have soup like Campbell's or such, we'd actually ADD salt to it. 
 
By the way - if you can't cook your own, don't trust the low sodium labels. The aforementioned Campbell has been sued over that. 
 
The good thing is that when you start reducing your intake, you quickly recover a proper sense of taste and it doesn't take 10th as much.

I have low blood pressure so I don't worry too much about salt. I figure, I don't eat any big brand/processed crap, and I don't put it on anything I make myself (except some in the water to cook my quinoa flakes in the morning). My only vice at the minute is Marmite which is quite salty, although I'm sure the B vitamins offer the salt in the health stakes.

sharke
I figure, I don't eat any big brand/processed crap, and I don't put it on anything I make myself (except some in the water to cook my quinoa flakes in the morning). 

That pretty much takes care of it. 
 
Last summer in NY, my wife had an issue w/ pressure in her inner ear causing vertigo - which, as you guess, can be quite problem if you're singing upside down suspended by a wire. To reduce pressure to a minimum, they put her on a low sodium diet - not just healthy low, but LOW. I'm used to eating healthy, but figuring out a way to go that much below the recommended intake and staying there for a while proved to be almost a full time job.

Old55
Sorry Pedro.  I didn't realize the extent of your vision problems.  Have you been to Fred Meyer's?  How does it compare with Trader Joe's.  Is there something about TJ's that you don't like?

TJ's is fine ... but there are times when I look at some of that garbanzo gob ... and go ... yukky! I keep trying to figure out if the bananas from TJ's go dark faster than the ones at Fred Meyer, and right now it's a dead heat ... they about the same. Or see when the tomatoes lose their coloring ... it's also a dead heat.
 
Next test: Head of lettuce. Go home, and wash it in plain water (not bottled!). Let it sit on the fridge, and see which one goes bad first ... FM's or TJ's.
 
This is fun!
 
I keep wondering how different their low fat ranch, or low fat nonexistent honey mustard dressing really is!
 
Ohhh ... sorry ... I forgot my lunacy pill this morning!