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Originally Posted by tater
This is an excellent analogy.
The dose should be below a single, unhealthful dose. In other words if the average person took ONE vitamin and got sick, then yeah, it's to much. But that's NOT the kind of doses in vitamins, is it. Unlike a cheeseburger, a vitamin is expected to be taken with a specific dose regimen, right? Liek one per day, forever. That changes things.
Any regulation of salt requires some specific dose per day of the food. What is a reasonable daily dose of cheeseburgers from a specific take out joint? For ME it's maybe 2 per year. They'd have to be pretty salty to harm me in 2 burgers. |
But vitamins are intended for daily use ... so the one vitamin argument is out. And as far as the large fast food corporations are concerned, they would LOVE for the average public Joe Blow to use them daily, just like vitamins, and clearly their marketing intends that.
So what if daily use of the one vitamin caused excessive, unhealthy iron levels, although any single one would not (it would be hard to pack an unhealthy amount of iron into any one capsule, as far as I recall)?
Remember: I'm playing devil's advocate and I tend to agree with the other side regarding fast food. But the logic argument isn't as sound as most on here seem to agree. I could probably argue August's point along with him, and no one would be the wiser, because of this analogy alone.
Hence my point about different strokes for different folks. Which, despite its intuitive nature, I still do feel is a personal epiphany.