HOW MUC SODIOUM SHOULD SOMEONE CONSUME DAILY ONA 1500 CAL DI

you can add sodium to your diary and watch it. I am pretty sure the max is 2500 for everyone, but since it does retain water, a lot of people choose to stay away ..

oops meant 2500 lol, mistype

Set up your diary tabs to show sodium... I track mine daily. For any person, regardless of caloric intake, sodium should be limited to 1800 mg a day. The 2500 generic MFP setting is too high. For more information check out the American Heart Association. Reducing your sodium intake will also reduce your risk for heart disease, stroke, and heart attack. The easiest way to reduce sodium is to eat natural foods. The more a food is processed, the more it is filled with sodium...

As of this year, the FDA suggests that for any healthy individual, that person should not consumer more than 2,300 mg of sodium a day. For African American individuals and those who are hypertensive or have a history of high blood pressure or other cardiovascular problems, the suggested intake is 1,500 mg a day. In reading the FDA guidelines, I couldn't find what kind of diet these numbers were based on so they are either a) independent of how much you eat, or b) based on a 2,000 calorie diet (like all the nutrition labels). Of course, the lower your sodium intake, the better.

According to the low-sodium diet guidelines, anything that has 140 mg of sodium or less per serving is considered low sodium, anything with 10 mg or less is negligible, and anything > 140 is considered high sodium.

The trick is to moderate how much processed food you eat. I like to think of it as, the fewer steps there are between the food being on the tree/in the ground/etc and having the food in your mouth, the better. Particularly high sodium foods are pre-packaged meals and canned goods, so with those you want to be particularly careful.