The righteous are slowly advancing into American health territory. Now that Obamas Healthcare plan has been given the green light, the righteous have been engaged to start changing Americas eating options with a war on salt which will no doubt be along the same lines as our Nannystate masters have been inflicting on us for the last few years.

From Zero Hedge, an article on the Food and Drug Administrations efforts to reduce Americas salt consumption :

The Food and Drug Administration is planning an unprecedented effort to gradually reduce the salt consumed each day by Americans, saying that less sodium in everything from soup to nuts would prevent thousands of deaths from hypertension and heart disease. The initiative, to be launched this year, would eventually lead to the first legal limits on the amount of salt allowed in food products. …

A recent study by researchers at Columbia and Stanford universities and the University of California at San Francisco found that cutting salt intake by 3 grams a day could prevent tens of thousands of heart attacks, strokes and cases of heart disease. …

“We can’t just rely on the individual to do something,” said Cheryl Anderson, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who served on the Institute of Medicine committee. “Food manufacturers have to reduce the amount of sodium in foods.”

Sounds familiar doesn’t it?

And of course, its all going to be about the healthcare costs of people who enjoy living how they want to and not as how our masters deem appropriate :

This will get wings because, friends, you are paying for my health care. As health care costs rise because of government regulation and control, there will be pressure to cut costs as the bill for Obamacare spirals out of control. The justification will sound very reasonable. “All we need to do is cut salt intake by 3 measly grams a day, and we would save so much money because people wouldn’t have salt related disease.”

The rest of the article is a very amusing take on what happens next – do go read.