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Mayor Bloomberg launched a health initiative last year aimed at reducing the city’s salt consumption leading to such memorable headlines<\/a> as the New York Post<\/em>‘s:<\/p>\n The other New York rag, the Daily News<\/em>, quoted Bloomberg on the new salt initiative<\/a>:<\/p>\n People are eating too much salt, me included.\u00a0After this, we can keep going. People don’t like to have somebody come in and tell them what to do, but afterward, if it turns out to be something that’s in their interest, they sure as heck say thank you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Michael Barbaro of the New York Times <\/em>though gets the real skinny<\/a> a year after this initiative is launched: the Mayor himself “dumps salt on almost everything, even saltine crackers.” Barbaro apparently has been watching the mayor in dining situations closely – even counting the number of dashes of salt applied to his pizza: 6. (Salt on pizza?! Really?). This paragraph is representative of the piece:<\/p>\n But Mr. Bloomberg, 67, likes his popcorn so salty that it burns others\u2019 lips. (At Gracie Mansion, the cooks deliver it to him with a salt shaker.) He sprinkles so much salt on his morning bagel \u201cthat it\u2019s like a pretzel,\u201d said the manager at Viand, a Greek diner near Mr. Bloomberg\u2019s Upper East Side town house.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n There’s nothing wrong with a man – who admits his own faults – attempting to curb unhealthy behavior. But the many micro-initiatives to make New Yorkers healthier do end up getting on my nerves<\/a> in a manner that makes me more sympathetic to Jacob Weisberg’s Slate<\/em> piece.<\/p>\n\n
BLOOMY TO NYC: HOLD THE SALT<\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n