How much sodium can you have in a day?

Answer 1

How Your Daily Sodium Intake Measures Up * * Daily sodium needed for basic physiological functions: scant 1/8 tsp = 250mg sodium

* Daily sodium limit for seniors: 1/2 tsp salt = 1,200mg sodium

* Daily sodium limit for adults: scant 1 tsp salt = 2,300mg sodium

* Daily sodium the average American consumes: heaping 1 1/2 tsp = 4,000mg sodium

SOURCES: USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005; U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Information taken from:: CNN.COM

Answer 2

1500mg - 2400mg per day (milligrams per day) is what is reccomended. However, highly active people (run allot, soccer, cross-country, Wrestling, Basketball, etc.) would have a higher requirement to account for the lost sodium during strenous and long exercise periods. Sodium helps balance the cells inside the body (like balancing the chemicals of a pool or saltwater fishtank). If you take in too much you can develop diseases over time relating to the heightened sodium surrounding your body's cells (high blood pressure, etc.). It is next to impossible to achieve if you eat any processed foods (even seemingly healthy ones like a foot long turkey sub from Subway). Most people in the US consume or exceed their daily amount of sodium needs in a single meal.

Answer 3

HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH?

How Your Daily Sodium Intake Measures Up

• Daily sodium needed for basic physiological functions: scant 1/8 tsp = 250mg sodium
  
• Daily sodium limit for seniors: 1/2 tsp salt = 1,200mg sodium
  
• Daily sodium limit for adults: scant 1 tsp salt = 2,300mg sodium
  
• Daily sodium the average American consumes: heaping 1 1/2 tsp = 4,000mg sodium
  

SOURCES: USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005; U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Information taken from:: CNN.COM

Answer 4

FDA standards has the max at 2000 mgs (or 2 grams) a day.

Answer 5

50mg

Answer 6

1000