Originally Posted by
pdlamb
And 2400 mg of sodium equates to 6,000 mg of salt.
Or, to illustrate the problems with vague language, 300 mg/20 minutes ends up with 3600 mg sodium. Or 400 mg/20 min = 4800 mg sodium. But these wiggle words probably reflect the natural variation of salt excretion in the population.
So is the guideline 2,300 or 1,500 mg/day? And how do the "experts" determine that nobody loses more than 1500 mg/day?
While I've never weighed or calculated salt in my diet, I'm pretty sure I've had stretches where I've had to replace more than that. Maybe if I restricted my riding to 30 minutes a day (isn't that what the government wants us all to exercise?), and rode only in places where the average daily high was around 80F instead of lows near that, I could get away with that low a salt intake. But I don't.
1. seeing as everyone else was talking sodium mg, and so was the hammer article, I did not catch you switch to talking salt mg.
2. seeing as the average american takes in 3600ms SODIUM a day, most people should be able to go 6 hours of heavy exercise before having any need to add sodium supplements. besides that, almost anything but water has sodium so there would still be little or no need for supplements.
3. What do you mean is it 2300 or 1500mg it clearly states 2300mg, except for those over 51, or with HBP, diabetes, ect, ect and those people (about half the population) should be at 1500mg.