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> Eating too little salt is as dangerous as eating too much salt. The usual recommendation is to eat about 4 to 5 grams of salt per day. Who recommends 4g of s
by cwzwarich 5y ago
> Eating too little salt is as dangerous as eating too much salt. The usual recommendation is to eat about 4 to 5 grams of salt per day.
Who recommends 4g of salt as a minimum?
- adrian_b 5y agoE.g. the USA Recommended Dietary Allowances. Due to the much more frequent cases of excessive salt consumption, the minimum recommended daily quantities are not emphasized, but I have direct experience with the effects of too low salt consumption. After having a stroke many years earlier, my mother was very concerned about HBP and she consumed low quantities of salt. That eventually caused serious neurological problems and many months were wasted because she was not diagnosed correctly in the beginning, the various symptoms being attributed to completely different causes. When the real cause was identified in the end, she very narrowly escaped death. 4 to 5 g/day is expected to be centered in the optimal range of daily salt consumption. The minimum daily salt consumption under which health problems may appear is obviously much lower, probably under 1 g/day. However, nobody has done any tests to determine the minimum requirements for humans, so the minimum threshold is not known, like also for all the other required nutrients for humans, because such tests would be dangerous for the test subjects.