how much sodium intake is good for the body?

Answer 1

Minimum intake is good for
a normal healthy person.

For a low BP person, one can
increase the intake, that too after
consulting a phycian.

If the intake of the normal person
is increased, the there will be chance
of getting High BP, which is not
good for the person.

Answer 2

the equivalent of 1/4 teaspoon a day,so be careful to buy sodium free products

Answer 3

2400mg per day is the maximum suggested intake of sodium

Answer 4

you should consume no more than 2.4 grams (6g of salt) but if you don't have high plood pressure more shouldn't be a problem. i sometimes consume more than 10g a day (some ready meals or pizzas contain up to 5g!) and didn't notice any problems (i have very low bp though) except that it makes you very thirsty!

Answer 5

pianist is right

Answer 6

How much Sodium (salt) is required?

On an average, man needs 200-300 mg sodium to maintain good health. The salt that we add in food for taste is known as sodium chloride. The natural salt in vegetables, fruits, milk etc is called sodium. The sodium outlet is based on the atmospheric condition outside. The natural Sodium can be sent out easily without any harm to the body.

The salt that we add to taste is roughly from 4000 mg to 25000 mg. Means we are consuming salt many times than required to satisfy the tongue. We do get the natural sodium more than enough through our natural food like fruits, vegetables, milk etc every day, causing no deficiency.
Bad results from salt

Swelling: Normally man has five liters of water in his body. A person who eats plenty of salt has 6–7 liters of water in his body with more salt outside the cells. This excess of water hinders free flow of oxygen to the cells causing them death. When you dip yourself into the water you feel breathless for few moments. The poor cells face the same breathlessness all the 24 hours!

Arthritis: The excess of salt in the body affects the joints. Cobwebs are more in corners, so also salt is more in joints. If you ask a beggar for his life ambition, he will promptly say, ‘one day I should beg in America’. It means even if he is given a chance, he can’t come out of his begging instinct. The same way, the salt that is harmful can’t keep quiet without decaying or spoiling the part in which it is! The salt stagnated between the joints eats away the gummy substance and joints. So the only remedy for arthritis is to give up salt. Instead of assuming that you are becoming old as a reason, it is better to bid goodbye to salt.

Harm to certain parts: At times you come across people with swollen face, hands, ankle, feet. The excess salt in the body is stored mostly in these parts. The body sends more of water to act as a shield to these parts, saving the cells and bones from salt. This symptom is a warning signal from the body indicating the suffering of cells. If you ignore it you will be the sufferer and nobody, not even God can save you.

Blood Pressure: We all wrongly assume that High B.P. is a silent killer. But we don't realize that the real fault lies with us. You had already seen that the more we eat salt, the more it is stored in and around 125 trillion cells attracting more water. Because of this excess of water the cells and the empty place outside the cells will always keep swollen. In result the blood vessels there will be exposed to pressure. The usual energy of the heart is not sufficient to circulate blood to the cells when blood vessels are under pressure. In a normal condition the heart pumps at 120pressure (energy). But now unless the heart beats with more pressure than 120, it cannot reach blood to the cells. The pressure above 120 is called B.P.

The theory of relativity works here. The more the pressure, greater is the harm to the heart. The poor heart will not have sufficient rest, as B.P. increases. The pressure will be 80 when heart takes rest. The days you have hectic work, you can't relax sufficiently. So also the heart doesn’t get even that minimum rest (0.4 seconds) once BP sets in. The salt hardens the blood vessels carrying blood to the heart. The contraction and expansion of the blood vessels are not normal and so blood doesn’t flow forward. This is yet another reason for BP. Shall I suggest you a very simple medicine? It has no side effects; it requires no money, no visit to doctor's office and above all it is in front of you, in your home! Number one medicine for BP. in the whole world is simply giving up salt in your food. You may say that you don’t use much salt. But I say give up salt totally and become a stranger to BP.

Heart Trouble: The heart can work more with less energy and can relax for a longer time if you give up salt totally. You long for more salt due to shortage of potassium. The heart muscles contract due to excess salt. The valves and the blood vessels to the heart become hard and can’t function properly. Slowly when each part is thus affected, it will reach a stage where the heart stops working. Not only that, the blood becomes thickened due to the excessive salt. So the heart cannot pump blood easily. The movements of the heart muscles get affected due to the accumulated salt and the heart has to work more than its normal routine. Thus salt is making the poor heart suffer greatly.

Paralysis:M There is a possibility of BP. shooting up when the blood vessels narrow down or become hard. As a result the head, the brain and the blood vessels are likely to be affected which will lead to paralysis.

Bad Odor: The water in the whole body becomes salty when salt gets stored in and outside the cell. We don’t sweat, we don’t urinate much if excess of salt remains in the body. Since the cells have more than the required bad water, they can’t receive the air properly and so the waste material in them is not burnt quickly. Just as a wet cloth that doesn’t get fresh air gives a stinking smell, so also the water in the body that doesn’t get fresh air, gives a stinking smell. That’s why only man’s mouth gives bad odor. The air he exhales, his sweat, his urine, and his motion give a stinking smell. For that matter, even his mind! The real culprit for all this is the salt, which attracts towards it all that is bad and retains it in your self.

So, if you don’t eat salt, you don’t have to brush your teeth, you don’t have to bathe, you don't have to pour water when you urinate. Your motion won’t give a bad smell. To top it all, your mind gets purified! Does it sound like **** and bull story? Of course not! Only if you experience it, you will realize it! How long can you hide the dirt inside by bathing twice or by applying perfumes?

Kidney Problem: There is no point in crying over spoilt milk! But generally people realize the impact of anything when it is too late. Only when the kidneys are totally damaged, do they try to give up salt since it is then that they do realize its harm! Till then they continue to consume salt. What is harmful is harmful forever not only when you are sick, but also when you are hale and healthy. The association of a bad friend turns you too to evil. The water, the friend of salt, remains more in the body to give company to salt and both together work upon the kidneys. So the pressure of water is borne not only by heart but also by kidneys. The excessive salt leads to stones in the kidneys.

God has created kidneys to filter the normal water that we drink, efficiently for 100 years. But how long can they work effectively if you supply them salt water? Salt brings with it only a sad story! It seems to be knee bent on causing harm to the kidneys! Salt is going to destroy all the internal parts of the body one after the other, in a systematic way! Kidneys too cannot escape the onslaught of salt.

Chronic Diseases: Small ailments, if neglected, lead to major diseases or chronic diseases. As has already been explained to you, the storage of salt water weakens the cells. We have already seen that if the flow of fresh air, water and food is affected it lays foundation to diseases. Unless we correct this, the disease cannot be cured. If we continue to eat without rectifying the already existing anomaly, the waste material in side will get accumulated damaging the cells, thereby the body. It leads to serious diseases like cancer too. Thus the infected cells will spoil the healthy cells too and it leads to the death of the person. Unless silt is given up, cells cannot restore their lost health! There are cases of chronic skin disease patients being cured of their diseases by giving up salt totally and by eating natural food. The skin diseases ‘Psoriasis’ will be cured completely by giving up salt. The medicines can only subside your pain, but cannot provide you a cure. Better strike at the root cause (by going on fasts), to cure the chronic diseases forever!

Diabetes: If you give up salt, besides BP. kidney problem or the stones in the kidneys, diabetes also can be cured. When there is a scarcity of potassium in the cells, you have to supplement it with insulin for the free flow of food. The insulin hormone doesn’t function properly in sugar patients. Medicines are useful only to rectify that, ignoring the damage done to the cells.

The general impression is that diabetes can be controlled with the help of regular intake of medicines. If one misses the medicine for a day it will shoot up.

But now try this! Stop taking salt and start taking food that contains potassium. Such food reaches the cells easily with less insulin. In short time you will find that diabetes getting cured, without the need for medicines.

You have already seen in detail how the excess of salt drives out the potassium in the cell and changes the 8:1 ratio of the potassium, sodium elements. In such a situation the glucose in the blood takes a longer time to be converted into energy. So if the cells don't use the glucose you send in through the food, the glucose remains in the blood vessels, which leads to blood sugar. It makes you feel physically weak because the cells are not receiving the required glucose.

The sum and substance of it is, glucose is converted into energy quickly with less insulin provided the 8:1 ratio of the two elements remains normal. You will notice the coming down of sugar reading, if you eat raw vegetables for a few days. You know why? The raw vegetables have the required ratio of potassium sodium elements as needed by the cells. So they can easily restore the cells to normalcy restoring your good health.

Asthma, Allergy, Sinus Complaints: Water gets accumulated wherever salt remains stagnated. So the water you drink goes only for that purpose. In fact the entire water in the body becomes salty. Since there is no pure water available in the body it leads to dehydration. A hormone called “Histamine’ is produced in such a situation. As a result the air passages in the lungs have an obstruction. So, sticky substances will be produced in the lungs and in sinus parts. They lead to sneezing, cold, allergy, breathlessness and Asthma. Such problems crop up because of two simple factors — eating salt, and not drinking the required quantity of water. There is an endless list of diseases that crop up due to one harmful item — THE SALT.

To cut a long story short, from the biggest part of the body to the minutest cell, which could only be seen through the microscope &mdashl; all are affected by the mischief-maker. One pinch of salt a day corrupts thoroughly all the busy bees in our body! Better you also realize before it is too late! Beware! No other taste causes as much harm as this king of tastes — salt! The king’s lust for power makes his people suffer. Here, your lust for the king ‘salt’ makes you suffer.

More than the treatment of any disease, the diagnosis is the most important factor. Any problem can be driven out once for all, if you strike at the root cause of it. Diseases can be cured or even prevented if you analyze your responsibility towards your body. Is it not your prime duty to protect yourself from diseases and to avoid medicines?

All of you have been eating food with salt. All of you have been suffering in someway or other! Try eating salt less food for just four months to find its advantages, with no adverse effects.