This is probably a unique problem, but maybe an interesting topic nonetheless.
Recently I've been doing a lot of cooking for myself, and oddly enough I'm trying to be a responsible person so I try to choose healthy foods. Lightly boiled vegetables, Eggs, Milk, Pasta with diced tomatoes, etc... Except there wasn't a whole lot on the "etc". And I've noticed that whenever introduced to things like Pizza I get somewhat of a ravenous urge.
Last week I bought a few bags of potato chips and it actually seemed like a pretty good addition to my diet. So finally I clue in and start counting the sodium I'm taking in every day.
The surprising part is things I thought were high in sodium actually aren't. Margarine is next to nothing, Pasta has pretty much nothing unless you add it.
Bread is high, Cereal is high, and canned tomatoes were one of the highest things on the list, but if I eat everything in my scheduled diet (low on meat and probably needs more friut) I only get to 96.5%, but sometimes I forget one thing or another, or ingredients run out mid week.
Then we get to the question of how the recommended percentage is calculated?
Everywhere I look I'm seeing "more than 1500mg and less than 2300mg", and if you look at the Wiki for Hyponatremia all they give you is molar equivalent per liter of blood. The only sources for this kind of information that seem to want to give someone a useful number, like grams per Kg of body mass, are concerned with equine diet.
And then there's activity levels.
So who knows how much salt a healthy 200lb man (ideal weight) is actually supposed to eat?
One thing I know for sure is that the bag of chips I just polished off feels pretty good right now (which was actually only worth 73% of the "recommended daily intake").
I never would have thought that "needs more salt" would be the conclusion of an analysis of a diet I actually chose for myself.
Recently I've been doing a lot of cooking for myself, and oddly enough I'm trying to be a responsible person so I try to choose healthy foods. Lightly boiled vegetables, Eggs, Milk, Pasta with diced tomatoes, etc... Except there wasn't a whole lot on the "etc". And I've noticed that whenever introduced to things like Pizza I get somewhat of a ravenous urge.
Last week I bought a few bags of potato chips and it actually seemed like a pretty good addition to my diet. So finally I clue in and start counting the sodium I'm taking in every day.
The surprising part is things I thought were high in sodium actually aren't. Margarine is next to nothing, Pasta has pretty much nothing unless you add it.
Bread is high, Cereal is high, and canned tomatoes were one of the highest things on the list, but if I eat everything in my scheduled diet (low on meat and probably needs more friut) I only get to 96.5%, but sometimes I forget one thing or another, or ingredients run out mid week.
Then we get to the question of how the recommended percentage is calculated?
Everywhere I look I'm seeing "more than 1500mg and less than 2300mg", and if you look at the Wiki for Hyponatremia all they give you is molar equivalent per liter of blood. The only sources for this kind of information that seem to want to give someone a useful number, like grams per Kg of body mass, are concerned with equine diet.
And then there's activity levels.
So who knows how much salt a healthy 200lb man (ideal weight) is actually supposed to eat?
One thing I know for sure is that the bag of chips I just polished off feels pretty good right now (which was actually only worth 73% of the "recommended daily intake").
I never would have thought that "needs more salt" would be the conclusion of an analysis of a diet I actually chose for myself.
