Salty Day

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TRLTAMPA
TRLTAMPA Posts: 824
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If I know I'm in for a salty day, do I drink like 12 glasses of water to flush it? Or will the salt just soak it up?

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  • TRLTAMPA
    TRLTAMPA Posts: 824
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    If I know I'm in for a salty day, do I drink like 12 glasses of water to flush it? Or will the salt just soak it up?
  • lmr9
    lmr9 Posts: 628 Member
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    Ooo - good question. I'd like to know that too!
  • Hannah_Banana
    Hannah_Banana Posts: 1,242 Member
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    I tend to almost double my water intake when I know I'll be eating something salty. I would love to hear something scientific on this though.

    Sooo.... Sciency people? Whats the call? :bigsmile:
  • TRLTAMPA
    TRLTAMPA Posts: 824
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    I found this article..... http://www.danlj.org/~danlj/Soaring/Clues/Diuresis.html
    it's geared toward pilots, but if you scroll down to the salt section it says that it could take up to 3 days to get rid of excess salt. The body forces us to get rid of the salt, in pee. So if we drink our 8 glasses, and go over our salt, usually 1 or 2 of those glasses is wasted on getting rid of the extra salt. And we're peeing out the salt instead of sweating out the fat. That's the part that got my attention.

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