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Quotes About Sodium

I love salt. Then again, who doesn't?
~ Anna Getty
Companies are experimenting with replacing sodium chloride with potassium chloride, because most of the health problems come from sodium. It works for some products, but if you diminish the amount of sodium, people want sugar and fat instead.
~ Michael Moss
Sodium light (produced by an electric arc in sodium vapour) glows yellow.
~ Richard Dawkins
On Jones's instruction, Larry Schacht ordered one pound of sodium cyanide, enough for 1,800 lethal doses. It cost $8.85.
~ Jeff Guinn
If there are fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies on the table, I won't say no to those. Soy sauce is another one, even though it's awful - it's so high in sodium.
~ Misty May-Treanor
Things taste less salty when they're cool.
~ Samin Nosrat
It's not until the non-NMDA has been stimulated over and over by a long train of glutamate release, allowing enough sodium to flow in, that this activates the NMDA receptor. It suddenly responds to all that glutamate, opening its channels, allowing an explosion of excitation. This is the essence of learning.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy during a chemistry class at St. Paul's School.
~ E. C. Bentley
Sodium filament and neon. Interstate 95 at midnight. America's spinal cord, splicing lifelines and destinies and unrelated narratives.
~ Adrian McKinty
The Mediterranean diet is rich in fruits and vegetables while low in sodium. It is also enriched with olive oil, high in antioxidants as well as monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats.
~ David Perlmutter
sodium chloride, citrate, bicarbonate, monopotassium phosphate, dipotassium phosphate, or l-lactate—all of these are components of electrolytes. It should also have a high percentage of carbohydrates.
~ Ann Marie Brown
EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Salt is what makes things taste bad when it isn't in them.
~ Joe Schwarcz
High salt intake is a risk factor for osteoporosis because excess dietary sodium promotes urinary calcium loss, leading to calcium loss from bone and therefore decreased bone density.
~ Joel Fuhrman
adrenocortical hormones control sodium and potassium ions and protein metabolism;
~ John E. Hall
The extracellular fluid contains large amounts of sodium, chloride, and bicarbonate ions plus nutrients for the cells, such as oxygen, glucose, fatty acids, and amino acids. It also contains carbon dioxide that is being transported from the cells to the lungs to be excreted, plus other cellular waste products that are being transported to the kidneys for excretion.
~ John E. Hall
The intracellular fluid differs significantly from the extracellular fluid; for example, it contains large amounts of potassium, magnesium, and phosphate ions instead of the sodium and chloride ions found in the extracellular fluid.
~ John E. Hall
you cannot kill yourself by taking a large dose of sodium chloride (it will only make you vomit) or by injecting a solution of it. On the other hand, if you injected a solution of potassium chloride it will kill you within minutes by upsetting the rhythm of your heart.
~ John Emsley
This does not mean that eating potassium chloride in place of sodium chloride, in a low-salt formulation, is risky—it isn't. We need much more potassium chloride in our diet than sodium chloride, but normally we get all we need in the food we eat.
~ John Emsley
The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.
~ Pieter Zeeman
When sodium, an unstable metal that can suddenly burst into flame, reacts with a deadly poisonous gas known as chlorine, it becomes the staple food sodium chloride, NaCl, from the only family of rocks eaten by humans.
~ Mark Kurlansky
Chloride is essential for digestion and in respiration. Without sodium, which the body cannot manufacture, the body would be unable to transport nutrients or oxygen, transmit nerve impulses, or move muscles, including the heart. An adult human being contains about 250 grams of salt, which would fill three or four salt-shakers, but is constantly losing it through bodily functions. It is essential to replace this lost salt. A
~ Mark Kurlansky
Hypertension is an important risk factor for kidney disease, but dietary sodium has other damaging effects on the kidneys. High salt intake drives the production of oxygen radicals, leading to oxidative stress in kidney tissue.
~ Joel Fuhrman
I use a lot of fresh citrus, garlic, and fresh herbs when cooking to cut down on fat and sodium but punch up flavor. Our cupboards and fridge are full of condiments - mustards, vinegars, etc. that also add tons of flavor but are low in fat, calories, or other processed additives.
~ Cat Cora