Long rant about dis-service, Magazines(GH in this one), Sodium, Research
Good Housekeeping Magazine, August 2011
Listed Under…
Goodhealth…. Healthy in a Hurry (key titles here!)
Shrimp & Mango Skewers… yada yada… grilled low fat shrimp (just 80 calories per 4-ounce serving). More yada yada yada…
They neglect to mention in the ‘Ingredients’ – ¼ tsp each salt & pepper. Granted this was 6 years ago but if they are on the “healthy” kick then they already know that salt is an issue for many Americans. “Healthy” doesn’t just mean calories, carbs, fat, cholesterol and ‘sugars’. It certainly does however, include sodium, even back then.
So back to their first statement… Just 80 calories per (4 ounce) serving. That is a gross mis-service. Your average dieter is going only see 80 cal per serving , where-as they were really referring to the shrimp only, not the entire dish. They do list the entire dish as 410 calories per serving. I think anything under the 500 mark is good. About the only good point I can applaud.
Then the shocker is down the list you hit sodium at 890 mg per serving!
Now bear with me… the “upper” limit listed by the American Heart Assoc. for sodium ‘used to be' 2,300 mg per day… which translates to about 1 tsp… ergo ¼ tsp is (2,300 divided by 4 =) 575 mg of sodium. Keep working with this guys …. Granted that there is natural sodium in the other ingredients but it just does not calculate – if you take the ¼ tsp of sodium that is 575 mg of sodium for the whole dish and divide that by 4 for the total servings, you are now at approx. 144 mg of sodium per serving. So why are they saying that there is a total of 890 mg per serving!!!!????
So who does the proof-reading/calculations/nutritional calcs/fact findings/etc/etc… just to sell a magazine… let the buyer/reader/believer beware!
Granted again… this is from a 2011 magazine and it is now 2017 – but in case anyone is interested:-
Because of Americans obsession with salt (bad phrasing, I know, GG please put it in better words for me) the Heart Association has now lowered the daily recommendation of sodium to (I think) 1,500 mg a day.
There are many more issues here and this is just one of them. It boggles my mind and I cannot encompass even half of the injustices wrought. For big companies that pay lawyers HUGE fees to avoid lawsuits… but then the little guy hardly ever has the time much less the money…
OK - rant over