Table salt or sodium?
KenSmith108
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Common table salt is sodium chloride mixed with iodine and other anti-caking substances.
1 teaspoon (6 grams) has 2325 mg sodium.
So 3500 to 5000 mg sodium is a lot of table salt.
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I use Redmond's RealSalt...and I'm talking a whopping lot of it.....0
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i use Sherpa Pink Himalayan Salt and yes, I take a LOT of it too2
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I use Morton's lite salt (slightly more potassium than sodium proportionally), kosher salt, pink Himalayan salt.... Basically if it's salt I'll eat it.2
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It seems like a lot of salt, until you realize A: how much sodium is already in a lot of foods, and B: a single teaspoon, mixed into about 32 ounces of water doesn't taste completely terrible, and covers close to (or over) half of your needs, and it pretty damned cheap compared to other ways to supplement it.
I prefer to be my own mad scientist with it, and mix lite salt (55/45 p/s) and regular salt (100 s) in varying ratios, depending upon my activity level. Here lately though, I've mostly just been using regular, because my mainstay protein shake has almost 4x the potassium as it does sodium.
Also bear in mind, the body needs chloride as well.2 -
3500-5000mg total sodium.
Which will be some from food as Gallowmere said and some from table salt we add.1 -
So basically, 2 teaspoons of sailt daily should be more than enough sodium for one day, especially when including sodium in foods as well.
I'm thinking that if I use 1/2 teaspoon pink salt in the morning, 1/2 at noon, and another 1/2 teaspoon at night, I should be pretty good, then, or at least for the time being.1 -
I drink a cup of bouillion in the morning, and during summer another in the afternoon. I use salt freely on my food, and that seems to do it for me.0
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I just heavily salt my food, but I always have. I love salty tastes.0
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KenSmith108 wrote: »
Common table salt is sodium chloride mixed with iodine and other anti-caking substances.
1 teaspoon (6 grams) has 2325 mg sodium.
So 3500 to 5000 mg sodium is a lot of table salt. or
Just an FYI, but iodine is added to salt to prevent goiter (thyroid issues). Back when I was in first grade (we're talking ancient times here), we were given iodine tablets every Friday at school. Also, I believe the whole nuclear testing above ground was also an issue with this because this helped clear the body of radioactivity we might have picked up playing out in the rain and snow. I'm really stretching my memory here and perhaps someone else recalls this, too. The whole "goiter" thing might have been to prevent scaring us little kids too much about radioactivity. Anyway, iodine was added to salt as a supplement since everyone used salt so everyone would get iodine.
We actually were told not to eat snow which we always did anyway...who can resist eating fresh snow? The area where nuclear testing was taking place (and was very secret) was an area where some of our winter storms formed and so carried some of the fallout with them.
Okay, that's as far as my memory will take me on this. Anyone else recall taking chocolate iodine tablets when they were little in school?
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Mmmm, salt. The best part of this diet is that I don't have to hold back on salt which is my biggest craving! I use mostly sea salt or Himalayan. I try to incorporate potassium salt, but I just don't love the taste.0
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