"We Eat Too Much Sodium Because Companies Keep Dumping It In Our Food"

"Here's what makes this problem so stubborn: Most of this sodium isn't coming from the salt shaker, which is more or less easy to regulate on an individual basis. The vast majority of the sodium we consume comes from processed foods we buy and meals we eat in restaurants. We may not realize, or have any way to find out, how much is really in there.

"It's very difficult for individuals to lower consumption on their own, because there's so much sodium in everything they eat," Tom Frieden, director of the CDC, tells us."
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/01/07/462198458/we-eat-too-much-sodium-because-companies-keep-dumping-it-in-our-food?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160107

It frustrates me that this ends with what we can do as individuals. I've gotten really, really tired of how many huge social issues have been shipped off to individual responsibility so that the powers that be don't have to change. We can't solve, really, anything by just burdening individuals to spend all of their own time and resources on being perfect. The drought in California, CO2 emissions, racism in policing, gender bias is science, whatever. It's a huge problem because a system made it so, and it's inefficient and absurd to ask individuals to burden themselves with creating solutions.