In college, I went on a low sodium kick because it was the in thing. After about 6 months, I started getting muscle twinges. Blood tests revealed sodium deficiency as the cause. Apparently, when you play soccer in southern CA, you need more sodium. So take all these health fads with a grain of salt …
margueritem over 15 years ago
My mouth and throat just shriveled up at the thought…
wndrwrthg over 15 years ago
You could pay a lot of salaries with that.
Desultourist over 15 years ago
The sign is missing 6 or 7 zeros…
There’s 4.5 to 4.9 billion tons of salt in the lake (http://ut.water.usgs.gov/greatsaltlake/)
About 40% of the mass would be from sodium, that’s 1.8*10^18 expressed in milligrams.
Written out: 1,800,000,000,000,000,000 mg! Would you like fries with that?
ANandy over 15 years ago
Too much information!
carmy over 15 years ago
No wonder it’s “great”, too much sodium causes water retention.
rookie26201 over 15 years ago
Salt was used as currency in ancient Rome.
stuart over 15 years ago
In college, I went on a low sodium kick because it was the in thing. After about 6 months, I started getting muscle twinges. Blood tests revealed sodium deficiency as the cause. Apparently, when you play soccer in southern CA, you need more sodium. So take all these health fads with a grain of salt …
fotondoc over 15 years ago
google it!
Digital Frog over 15 years ago
Makes for interesting swimming as it raises your bouyancy considerably.
bald over 15 years ago
all that salt is from tourists sweat in the summer it is 115 or more degrees during the day