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AMA Morning Rounds

CDC survey finds bread is top source of sodium in US diet.
ABC World News (2/7, story 7, 0:35, Sawyer) reported that "the Center for Diseases Control said nine out of ten adults eat too much salt. And the number one source of their salt is a surprise -- bread and rolls."

The CBS Evening News (2/7, story 9, 0:20, Pelley) reported, "The Centers for Disease Control said today that salty snacks like potato chips are not our biggest source of sodium."

NBC Nightly News (2/7, story 8, 2:25, Williams) reported that CDC Director Thomas Frieden, MD, said, "We're eating more food made by others, in restaurants or prepared food from grocery stores. And when other people make food for us, they put a lot more salt in it." NBC's Costello added, "More fruits, veggies and home cooking are the solution, says the CDC."

The AP (2/8, Stobbe) reports, "Bread and rolls are the No. 1 source of salt in the American diet, accounting for more than twice as much sodium as salty junk food like potato chips. That surprising finding comes in a government report released Tuesday that includes a list of the top 10 sources of sodium." CDC officials "are encouraging consumers to read labels and, for example, buy brands of bread that have lower sodium." CDC Director Frieden noted, "Potato chips, pretzels, and popcorn -- which we think of as the saltiest foods in our diet -- are only No. 10."

"Most sodium in the US diet comes from bread, lunch meat, pizza, chicken, soup, and burgers, the CDC found," according to the National Journal (2/8, Fox, Subscription Publication). In a statement, CDC Director Frieden said, "We're encouraged that some food manufacturers are already taking steps to reduce sodium," noting that manufacturers such as Kraft and Leprino Foods are "actively working on providing customers and consumers with healthier options."

The NPR (2/8, Barclay) "The Salt" blog reports, "According to the CDC, the average American consumes about 3,300 milligrams of sodium per day, not including any salt that may be added during a meal. ... The US Dietary Guidelines recommend no more than 2,300 mg a day, except if you're over 51 years or African American or have high blood pressure, diabetes or chronic kidney disease."

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (2/8, Jeffries) lists the "10 types of foods are responsible for more than 40 percent of people's sodium intake," according to the CDC list. The foods are "breads and rolls; luncheon meat, such as deli ham or turkey; pizza; poultry; soups; cheeseburgers and other sandwiches; cheese; pasta dishes; meat dishes such as meat loaf; and snack foods such as potato chips, pretzels and popcorn." The Journal-Constitution points out that "breads and rolls aren't saltier than many of the other foods on the CDC list, but people tend to eat a lot of them," which makes them the cop source of salt in the diet
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MedPage Today (2/8, Fiore) notes, "The data come from the 'What We Eat in America' portion of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2007-2008. NHANES is a survey that relies on self-reported data, a fact that may introduce bias and also raises questions about the generalizability of its findings." The study is published in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. CQ (2/8, Subscription Publication) and the Los Angeles Times (2/8, Muskal) "Nation Now" blog also cover the story.

Definitely came as surprise to me. I always assumed that most of the salt came from prepared/frozen foods.

 

[Tuck]

I'm not giving up my bread.

 

[Volimar]

Yeah, I was expecting snacks or soups/prepackaged meals to be the culprit...

Interesting news. Thanks OP. I try to cut down on my intake, but yeah, I need my bread.

 

[Vigilance]

Burn my bread

 

[The Technomancer]

It doesn't help that the nutritional value of most modern American bread is otherwise slightly above that of paper

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

Why is there so much salt in our bread again?

 

[Tobor]

I'm on a low carb diet, but I still need to reduce my salt intake. I love it so much, though.

 

[Chairhome]

"Bread makes you fat?!"

 

[backflip10019]

So, this thread is going to turn out exactly like that other "Americans eat too much sugar" thread?

 

[Stet]

Too much salt in their bread? Let them eat cake.

 

[kingocfs]

Someone call Professor Steven Kaplan.

 

[Volimar]

To offset the taste of all the high fructose corn syrup.

No, it's the partially hydrogenated soybean oil.

 

[RubxQub]

BreakMakesYouFat...BREADMAKESYOUFAT?!.gif

 

[Hop]

BreakMakesYouFat...BREADMAKESYOUFAT?!.gif

I'll confess, I was looking through the weight loss thread for that gif.

 

[Phantast2k]

I can't fathom how Americans can be addicted to the uniform crap Americans refer to as bread..


This is bread:

/edit

Someone call Professor Steven Kaplan.

thx. haven't seen that for a while

 

[Learn2read]

I thought it was pretty well known that surface salt from "salty" foods wasn't the main contributor to high sodium - it's all the "hidden" salt.

 

[Stet]

Why is there so much salt in our bread again?

http://www.kingarthurflour.com/professional/salt.html

Bread needs salt. This should be common knowledge, but people don't know where their food comes from so it's not.

 

[DrFunk]

I can't fathom how Americans can be addicted to the uniform crap Americans refer to as bread..


This is bread:

/edit

thx. haven't seen that for a while

because this is clearly what the article is about

 

[Kosmo]

It's not bread, pizza, lunch meat or canned soups. It's TOO MUCH bread, lunch meat, pizza, and canned soups.

 

[Steelrain]

I can't fathom how Americans can be addicted to the uniform crap Americans refer to as bread..


This is bread:


/edit

thx. haven't seen that for a while

Oh, wow! So that's bread!?

Man, I wish we had bread in America

 

[ThisWreckage]

Is this true for loaves of bread on the whole or would something like 100% wheat bread have less salt? I've always heard that white bread barely qualifies as food.

 

[Stet]

I can't fathom how Americans can be addicted to the uniform crap Americans refer to as bread..


This is bread:

/edit

thx. haven't seen that for a while

All of that bread has a lot of salt in it too. This article is misleading because it makes it sound like bread has SUDDENLY gotten a higher salt content, but that's not what's shocking. What's shocking is how much bread Americans are eating. There's a lot of salt in French bread too, but even though they eat it at every meal, they STILL don't eat as much as the average U.S. resident.

 

[Salmonax]

This is bread

You have so much to teach us.

 

[BertramCooper]

I can't fathom how Americans can be addicted to the uniform crap Americans refer to as bread..


This is bread:

Because none of us silly Americans has ever seen bread like that before ever.

 

[Dresden]

Because none of us silly Americans have ever seen bread like that before ever.

All we get are sliced white bread in white plastic packages, after all.

 

[The Technomancer]

Because none of us silly Americans have ever seen bread like that before ever.

Based on personal experience the average bread selection available to most American's doesn't even come close to what your average (in my specific experience) German has access to at their local market. Even our "french" bread tends to be thick and fluffy. Its not impossible but its certainly more difficult to find a good hard bread.

 

[Admiral Bone to Pick]

Bread is crap in general. For the amount of calories and carbs you get you could be eating much better food.

 

[AbortedWalrusFetus]

Based on personal experience the average bread selection available to most American's doesn't even come close to what your average (in my specific experience) German has access to at their local market. Even our "french" bread tends to be thick and fluffy. Its not impossible but its certainly more difficult to find a good hard bread.

Wat? Those pictures looked like the average bakery department of every single supermarket I've ever been to.

I buy sliced bread for lunches, but typically it is double protein/double fiber whole wheat. I don't actually know any adults that eat white bread, just kids. Maybe it's because of my income demographic.

 

[entremet]

Why is there so much salt in our bread again?

Taste and it's a natural preservative.

 

[entremet]

I can't fathom how Americans can be addicted to the uniform crap Americans refer to as bread..


This is bread:

/edit

thx. haven't seen that for a while

We have that here to. Love the smugness though. I think bread is garbage nutritionally, so I rarely consume it.

 

[Hilbert]

I can't fathom how Americans can be addicted to the uniform crap Americans refer to as bread..


This is bread:

/edit

thx. haven't seen that for a while

Someone should make a megathread: Americans don't have access to any of these real foods! and include people making general statements about all of america and their bread, cheese, beer, wine, chocolate, and all the other shitty generalizations that people feel the need to bring up in unrelated threads.

 

[Fallout-NL]

Didn't we have an article on here a couple months ago that argued how consuming relatively large amounts of salt wasn't that big of a deal?

Someone should make a megathread: Americans don't have access to any of these real foods! and include people making general statements about all of america and their bread, cheese, beer, wine, chocolate, and all the other shitty generalizations that people feel the need to bring up in unrelated threads.

After touring through the US' western states last summer, I can confirm that the daily hunt for decent bread was a recurring problem. Most of it is the most vile and utterly terrible fabricated garbage.

 

[AbortedWalrusFetus]

Next they'll tell us America doesn't have anything good of the other product made from grains and yeast: beer.

 

[Mr. B Natural]

We have that here to. Love the smugness though. I think bread is garbage nutritionally, so I rarely consume it.

If by "here" you mean a very small portion of the country, then yes, I agree. If your town has 1 bakery, it's a feature and you should consider yourself lucky. Oh, and most likely that 1 bakery is struggling to stay in business.

America buys the cheap shitty super-preserved supermarket aisle bread, not bread like you quoted that actually goes bad in a day. To say otherwise is to be insincere.

 

[Phantast2k]

I was actually meaning to quote this before replying with the pic flurry:

I'm not giving up my bread.

Also I'm still a bit mad about my semester abroad in Norcal & having to get by without good bread options. As other ppl. have mentioned even the "other kind" of bread in US is still not good. Apart from the fact that you have to go/drive an extra mile to get it (I'm thinking of Panera)...but even there...it's still not the real thing
French, Swiss, Germans exch. students...everyone agreed.
As for the sodium in bread. I have no idea - the whole sodium craze is yet to sweep over to Europe. Maybe it's not bad relevant for us because generally eat less processed food? Dunno.

btw. It's a christian tradition to welcome ppl. with bread & salt (I guess more common in Eastern Europe): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_salt

 

[Steelrain]

After touring through the US' western states last summer, I can confirm that the daily hunt for decent bread was a recurring problem. Most of it is the most vile and utterly terrible fabricated garbage.

You must have literally avoided the supermarket bakery in every place you went to.

 

[Claude]

You'll never take my pizza away

 

[Steelrain]

If by "here" you mean a very small portion of the country, then yes, I agree. If your town has 1 bakery, it's a feature and you should consider yourself lucky. Oh, and most likely that 1 bakery is struggling to stay in business.

America buys the cheap shitty super-preserved supermarket aisle bread, not bread like you quoted that actually goes bad in a day. To say otherwise is to be insincere.

Not really. You must literally live in bumfuck, nowhere if you only have one bakery.

 

[Hilbert]

Didn't we have an article on here a couple months ago that argued how consuming relatively large amounts of salt wasn't that big of a deal?






After touring through the US' western states last summer, I can confirm that the daily hunt for decent bread was a recurring problem. Most of it is the most vile and utterly terrible fabricated garbage.

How about you listen to americans when they tell you it isn't that true? Or do you like Americans making sweeping statements about your country based on a visit?

Western states huh? Thinking of the Seattle area I can think of at least a dozon local bakeries, some of which deliver to every grocery store in the region daily. It is not hard to find quality bread.

 

[TheLastCandle]

The Wegmans near me has some nice bread, and it's not even a tiny mom and pop bakery which we have plenty of around here too. And I live in tiny ass Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. We have fucking bread.

Now, most people DO eat the generally cruddy white sliced stuff, but that's because it's cheap as shit and works well for packed lunches and grilled cheese sandwiches. And we eat so much of it because of that god damned food pyramid.

 

[Stealth Editor]

You'll never take my pizza away

Start running now fatty

 

[harriet the spy]

Because none of us silly Americans have ever seen bread like that before ever.

I like plenty of foods here, but if there is one thing I will almost never lay down arms about, is how average american bread is, even when considering those imaginary amazing indie bakeries people rave about (which 9 out of 10 times are disappointing, though they are of course better than the industrial shit).

Spoiler

Also, san francisco sourdough, and sourdough in general, is the devil

 

[AColdDay]

I can't fathom how Americans can be addicted to the uniform crap Americans refer to as bread..


This is bread:

/edit

Looks like a basket of sex toys. I AIN'T PUTTIN' THAT IN MAH MOUTH SON!

 

[Learn2read]

If by "here" you mean a very small portion of the country, then yes, I agree. If your town has 1 bakery, it's a feature and you should consider yourself lucky. Oh, and most likely that 1 bakery is struggling to stay in business.

America buys the cheap shitty super-preserved supermarket aisle bread, not bread like you quoted that actually goes bad in a day. To say otherwise is to be insincere.

ITT I learned that no supermarkets have instore bakeries

 

[Darklord]

Is salt really that bad compared to fat, carbs or sugar? I rarely even take note of it. Though I don't eat things like chips or popcorn or any of that.

 

[ToxicAdam]

You know why we eat so much bread? Because it's fucking delicious.


I'm keeping my extra 20. Don't give a shit.

 

[.la1n]

They can take my bread but they will never take my ramen!

 

[TheLastCandle]

You know why we eat so much bread? Because it's fucking delicious.

God damn right.

A little good bread with some extra virgin olive oil for dipping on the side. Good god give it to me.

 

[Seraphinianus]

uh, if I go to any grocery store in chicago, I can get a bunch of different kinds of good bread. There are about a hundred different kinds of bread at trader joe's also. I can't remember the last time I had wonder bread.

 

[RustyNails]

Obligatory, The Bread Professor on Late Night with Conan O Brien

This interview simply gets funnier each time I watch it.