Opinion/Letters: Meals on Wheels entrees are nutritious
Elder Services of Cape Cod and the Islands is truly disheartened to hear Jeni Wheeler and Cape Cod Family Table Collaborative's perspective on the sodium content of our home-delivered meals (12/4).
Elder Services' Meals on Wheels program follows the strict guidelines set by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Dietary Reference Intake, which is created by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Each meal that is served has no salt added to the meal. The only salt in the meal is what naturally occurs in each food item.
Additionally, the monthly menu provided to each consumer shows the amount of sodium that is in each food item in that day's meal. If a consumer thinks the sodium is too high, they can choose to remove an item to reduce the sodium content.
All Meals on Wheels menus are carefully created by our dietician to ensure not only compliance with state and federal guidelines but also to monitor other nutrient levels to ensure a safe and healthy meal for all to enjoy.
Most food service programs do not provide the transparency that Meals on Wheels does. Elder Services believes in providing consumers with information so each person can make the right choice for them. Elder Services has never encountered any physician or medical personnel who has criticized our meals in any way. In fact, physicians have complimented us on our healthy dietary options and availability.
Our home-delivered meal participants not only get a well-balanced meal, but they also get a daily safety check from one of our 1,100 Meals on Wheels volunteers!
Thank you, and please think of "others" — our 1,200 participants — before you print stuff that knocks a hard-working nonprofit!
Maryanne Ryan, chief executive officer of Elder Services of Cape Cod and the Islands.
Nantucket topless bylaw brings equity to women
The wording of the new Nantucket law addressing discrimination in clothing — as in, say, on the beach — is so weird. I mean, this thing about "all genders." The truth of the matter is, it's beenwomen, just women who have been harassed and ticketed and fined for being bare-chested.
Good that that won't be happening — at least, not on Nantucket — anymore. Massachusetts is only about 40 years behind New York in figuring that one out.
Reilly Pavia, Orleans
FOX should not have cut away from the Buccaneers' football game
Fox dropped the ball last Sunday night by not continuing live coverage of the Buccaneers versus the 49ers football game because Tom Terrific wasn't, so they fed us a more competitive game.
Mind Control is alive and well; I have to check my calendar to verify 2022 is here, not 1984.
Cindy Richards, Centerville
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