Heart Healthy Eating is Tough to Do

As everyone knows who is trying to change their lifestyle to be more heart healthy, eating well is a tremendous challenge.

My amazement has never abated at how irresponsible those who are in the business of selling food to the public are. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that businesses are in business to make money and will use every trick in the book to do so even if in the long run we, the consumer, are the ones who will suffer.

It is not just those of us who eat the trans-fats, excessive amounts of salt, and nutritionally poor food that suffer the consequences. Our whole society bears the burden on the health care system, poorly fed kids struggling to get through a school day and the serious , debilitating, consequences from a lack of activity and poor nutrition striking at an ever younger age.

Oh well, you have heard my rant before but here is a little bit of good news. Kraft Foods announced recently that it is reducing the amount of salt in its products by an average of 10% over the next two years.

When you think about it, that is a lot of salt that won't be eaten. Kraft has over a thousand products that will contain less salt.

On the Kraft Foods website it says this strategy will eliminate more than ten million pounds of salt from North America's groceries.

Why is this a good thing? Eating too much salt can cause high blood pressure and contribute to heart disease among other things.

Kraft is the first to admit that this is good for business but heck, more than 750 million teaspoons of salt will not be eaten in North America in 2012. Lets call it a win for health aware consumers.