In other words, what is the optimal
daily sodium intake from whole plant foods?
Not exact matches
(The recommended
daily intake of
sodium for kids ranges
from 1,900 mg / day to 2,300 mg / day, depending on age.)
Among them, a 2006 American Journal of Medicine study compared the reported
daily sodium intakes of 78 million Americans to their risk of dying
from heart disease over the course of 14 years.
The «wildly speculative values» of 3 to 7 grams per day referred to by Cordain came
from a cohort study published in 2011 in The Journal of the American Medical Association in which
sodium intake of almost twenty - nine thousand patients with established cardiovascular disease or diabetes mellitus was estimated by twenty - four - hour urinary
sodium excretion.26 During the follow - up of fifty - four months, the study found that
daily sodium intake below three grams and above seven grams significantly increased cardiovascular risk.
These values are derived
from twenty - four - hour urinary
sodium excretion measurements in studies involving over one hundred thousand participants.4 Cordain implies that
sodium intake in «non-westernized people» is far lower than in the US, but in fact the average
daily sodium intake in Asia, Africa and the Middle East is about 50 percent higher than the 3.4 grams per day in the U.S. and Canada.24, 25
Among them, a 2006 American Journal of Medicine study compared the reported
daily sodium intakes of 78 million Americans to their risk of dying
from heart disease over the course of 14 years.