It's true that there's magnesium in everything, but the definition of half decent diet becomes rather strange in the light of a recommended intake for adults.

It's true that there's magnesium in everything, but the definition of half decent diet becomes rather strange in the light of a recommended intake for adults. Men are recommended a bit over 400 mg magnesium per day. Black beans are quite rich in magnesium, but you still need to eat more than 3.5 cups of it to get the recommended daily amount of magnesium, or 5 cups of cooked brown rice, spinach? That's 2.5 cups of boiled spinach. Generally, if you eat between 5-10 cups of solid food each day, you are fine no matter what you eat. But that's a lot of food unless you have a very physically active, job. It used to be mostly true, when most people had physically demanding jobs, it's not true any more. https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Magnesium-HealthProfessional/#h2 https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Magnesium-HealthProfession... "National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) of 2013-2016 found that 48% of Americans of all ages ingest less magnesium from food and beverages than their respective EARs; "