Sodium

spcopps

I thought a person was to consume no more than around 2300 mg of sodium per day? MFP has me needing 2500 mg per day. I seem to always be low (never more than around 1500 mg per day). Is there any danger in being under on sodium? I have never been much of a salt person and now that I am eating healthier/less processed foods my sodium is dropping even more. Thanks for the advice!

abyt42

I've manually lowered my goal to 1500...

jhardenbergh

For sodium the lower the better, I believe. For some reason I think there are new guidelines dropping the sodium number to 1500mg, I think I have heard 1500 somewhere

alienblonde1

http://www.faqs.org/health/topics/4/Sodium-imbalance.html


Hope that helps and link works.

CakeFit21

For sodium the lower the better, I believe. For some reason I think there are new guidelines dropping the sodium number to 1500mg, I think I have heard 1500 somewhere

This is true. The guidelines have been dropped to 1500mg per day for sodium. It happened just a few weeks ago.

pwprice59

The DASH diet recommends not more than 1500 mg of sodium. DASH stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertention. The DASH diet also recommends not more than 27% of your calories from fat, and not more than 6 or 7% of your calories from saturated fat. MFP can track saturated fats in your diet.

I have configured my goals to match DASH, except for the cholesterol recommendation, I left the 300 mg/day cholesterol because I like a frequent real egg.

Crystals422

We have the same profile pic lol. I have mine set for 1500 as well. The lower the better.