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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay I have to say more about salsa. Nobody would put tomatoes, onions, cilantro, peppers, salt, and lime juice in a bowl and call it junk food. Why would throwing that in the food processor put it into the junk food category? [/quote]

Lets be honest. The vast majority of people aren't making their own salsa. They're buying it from the store.  Just take whole foods salsa as a standard example:

https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/product/organic-thickand%20chunky%20mild%20salsa,%2016%20oz-b07nsq98r9

Only 2 tablespoons alone has 6% DV for sodium!  Most people will probably consume 2 tables spoons of salsa in 2-3 bites. In a session, everyone knows they'll probably have 10-20 bites.   Salsa is often a highly processed salt bomb. Many also contain preservatives.

Sure, this is DCUM where absolutely zero people buy pre-made salsa though and only make it at home.  Yeah, suuuuure.

This is why Americans are so fat and why cardiovascular disease is the #1 killer in America. Americans have an extremely hard time figuring out what is junk food.  Oh, salsa must be healthy because all it is is tomatoes, onions, lime, and maybe olive oil and cilantro.  Except they completely ignore the huge amounts of sodium that goes into many brands' salsas. [/quote]

Sodium doesn’t make you fat.

Too much is bad for your heart and salty foods can make you want to eat more than you would. But in and of itself sodium is not loading you up with calories. [/quote]

Omg, you must have an IQ of 180.  Pure genius pointing out that sodium in of itself has no calories.

That is entirely missing the point.  The typical American diet is absolutely LOADED with far too much sodium.  Many people only focus on things like calories and grams of saturated fat. That's not the only thing that's important - controlling your sodium intake is too.  Excessive sodium intake is associated with all sorts of health problems like high blood pressure, kidney disease, stroke, and heart disease.

I dare you to try to follow the recommended daily guidelines for sodim in take.  It is by far and away the most difficult to control aspect of a diet. Way more so than sugar and fat, because many foods that aren't raw are absolutely loaded with sodium.

Most prepared salsas that come in a package are junk food because they contain a lot of sodium relative to the size of the serving.  Tack on chips on top of it and chips and salsa are nothing more than a health bomb where people blow out their daily allowance of sodium on a snack or appetizer alone.

Too much sodium in American diets is a huge offender and one of the most difficult to control. [/quote]

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