How Your Daily Sodium Intake Measures Up * * Daily sodium needed for basic physiological functions: scant 1/8 tsp = 250mg sodium
* Daily sodium limit for seniors: 1/2 tsp salt = 1,200mg sodium
* Daily sodium limit for adults: scant 1 tsp salt = 2,300mg sodium
* Daily sodium the average American consumes: heaping 1 1/2 tsp = 4,000mg sodium
SOURCES: USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005; U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Information taken from:: CNN.COM
1500mg - 2400mg per day (milligrams per day) is what is reccomended. However, highly active people (run allot, soccer, cross-country, Wrestling, Basketball, etc.) would have a higher requirement to account for the lost sodium during strenous and long exercise periods. Sodium helps balance the cells inside the body (like balancing the chemicals of a pool or saltwater fishtank). If you take in too much you can develop diseases over time relating to the heightened sodium surrounding your body's cells (high blood pressure, etc.). It is next to impossible to achieve if you eat any processed foods (even seemingly healthy ones like a foot long turkey sub from Subway). Most people in the US consume or exceed their daily amount of sodium needs in a single meal.
How Your Daily Sodium Intake Measures Up
SOURCES: USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005; U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Information taken from:: CNN.COM
FDA standards has the max at 2000 mgs (or 2 grams) a day.
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1000
Sodium is an electrolyte that is important in the body. Children should have anywhere from 1,000 to 1,500 milligrams of sodium per day.
The recommended amount of sodium is no more than 2,300-2,400mg per day.
Maybe like 100 sodium maximum.
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2400 milligrams or less.
Aim to eat less than 1,500 mg of sodium per day.
2400 mg per day
Most Americans consume anywhere from 3,000 mg to 20,000 mg of sodium a day
Just don't eat
2 grams of salt = 2,000 mg of sodium
SOME DOCTORS SAY IT SHOULD NOT BE MORE THAN 2OOO MGS A DAY EVEN THOUGH SODIUM CAN BE HARMFUL TO YOUR HEALTH IT IS STILL NEEDFUL TO THE BODY. MANY WHO HAVE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE NEED TO WATCH OUT TO KEEP IT MUCH LESS THAN THIS.
Yes, this increases your sodium intake, which is very bad considering how much sodium is in our every day foods.