A Conflict Between Nutritionally Adequate Diets and Meeting the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Sodium

Background Compliance with dietary guidelines means incorporating multiple foods and nutrients into everyday diets, to be consumed in smaller or larger amounts. Feasibility studies can help determine whether one nutrient guideline comes into conflict with another. For one half of the U.S. population, the 2010 dietary guidelines for sodium were set at 1500 mg/d. Purpose To test the compatibility of the 1500 mg/day sodium goal with...