Unless you’re eating straight raw vegetables you’re probably getting a sufficient amount of sodium. Especially if you’re eating chicken that’s been injected, processed meats, cheese, olives, pickles, chips, there’s no need to hit the salt shaker thinking that you’re not getting enough. If you look up the allowable amounts for a healthy diet it’s basically a teaspoon worth.
“Americans eat on average about 3,400 mg of sodium per day. However, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends adults limit sodium intake to less than 2,300 mg per day—that’s equal to about 1 teaspoon of table salt!”
And if you’re not buying on salted beans or whatever or you’re not reading the labels you’re probably way over anyway. It’s interesting to track it for a while because a lot of the food we eat from spaghetti sauce to spam and beyond it’s a helluva lot.
Basically agree, but there are a fair number of vegans and quasi-vegans (aka idiots, IMO) who are eating pretty much nothing but fruits and vegetables. It’s unclear to me how they’re getting enough protein let alone sodium.
If you have a question about if you are or are not getting enough sodium then get a blood test.