Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7309411 | Appetite | 2015 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Our diet is believed to be overly rich in sodium, and it is commonly believed that sodium intake increases drinking. Hence the concern of a possible contribution of dietary sodium to beverage intake which in turn may contribute to obesity and ill health. Here we examine whether voluntary, acute intake of a sodium load, as occurs in routine eating and snacking, increases thirst and drinking. We find that after ingesting 3.5 or 4.4âg NaCl (men) and 1.9 or 3.7âg (women) on nuts during 15 minutes, there is no increase in thirst or drinking of freely available water in the following 2âh compared with eating similar amounts of sugared or unflavored nuts. This suggests that routine ingestion of boluses of salt (~30-40% of daily intake for men,â~â20-40% for women) does not increase drinking. Methodological concerns such as about nuts as vehicle for sodium suggest further research to establish the generalizability of this unexpected result.
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Authors
Micah Leshem,