South Beach Diet Brand Food: Too Much Sodium?
Kraft are partnered with South Beach Diet author Dr. Arthur Agatston. The food manufacturer produces a range of pre-packaged foods with the South Beach Diet label.
However some nutritionists are not happy with the levels of sodium in the new foods:
There are 950 to 1,350 milligrams of sodium per serving in the eight new South Beach Diet frozen entrees and 1,260 milligrams to 1,530 milligrams in the four refrigerated wraps -- 50 to 100 percent more in some cases than comparable Healthy Choice, Lean Cuisine and Weight Watchers products.
According to the report, Agatston defends the food by trying to compare the risks of different health issues:
"The big health problem in the country today is diabetes and prediabetes obesity," Agatston said in a telephone interview. "That's a much bigger health issue than sodium intake as far as most hypertension.
The whole partnership raises some questions, and can't but feed the belief that the marriage between the diet and food industry does more harm than good.
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If you want to do any diet, go to a book store and pick one that does not put its name on any packaged food.
ReplyIn regards to the sodium comparison between the South Beach products and Healthy Choice and Lean Cuisine.
ReplyThe latter two keep the actual sodium content down by using Potassium Chloride (salt substitute) in their product. The use of Potassium Chloride in some hypertensive patients can interact with their blood pressure medication and potentially cause more serious problems such as heart arrythmia. As a hypertensive patient I was advised by my pharmacist to avoid all products containing Potassium Chloride to avoid problems. So, who decides what's more harmful? The FDA or the mostly uninformed consumer?
Weight Watchers I might add, does not use Potassium Chloride and their products are not low in sodium.
I can simply not believe the sodium content in the foods that are on the shelves. What the bleep!! Talk about successfully and sometimes unsuccessfully pulling the wool over the consumer's eyes. 4 grams of fat and what??
Reply980 mg of sodium per 250ml serving. Come on. This has just about become the norm in Canadian grocery store's, forget about the US stores where I've been many times recently. That's another story all to it's self. I try to be respectful but I get so upset with the hidden sodium, trans fat's, sugar, glucose, fructose, glucose/fructose, liquid sugar, corn syrup, malt syrup
ect... not joking, that's just off the top my head. Anyone who pay's attention to this stuff knows the list goes on. Man did I need to vent that. Thank you very much. I have no training but would like to see some accountablility, yeah right. Better yet I would like to stick it to them through some media opportunity. Anyone who would like to contact me, feel free to do so. Mule892@hotmail.com
Yours truly, Shaun.
AKA Can't drink enough water to get the salt out of my mouth.
Just one more thing. Honestly, most companies seem to compensating less fat with loads of salt. They are going too far, too much salt. They unnesscessarily go overboard. My point is, they don't need to add so much. Ease up and let the consumer touch it up if they wish.
ReplyI have congestive heart failure. Salt causes liquid buildup in my lungs leading to cardiac asthma.
The pre-Kraft South Beach Diet helped me lose 25 pounds. I will not use any of the Kraft South Beach products with excess salt.
Replyjust stay away from frozen foods, if you MUST, try to eat 1 a day less than 600 mg of sodium... sodium retains water,,, makes you bloated :)
ReplyAs much as I would love to pop a frozen meal in the microwave, i really really take a long hard look at the sodium... That changes my mind :)