The American Heart Association recommends no more than 2,300 milligrams (mgs) a day and an ideal limit of no more than 1,500 mg per day for most adults. Because the average Americanâs sodium intake is so excessive, even cutting back to no more than 2,400 milligrams a day will significantly improve blood pressure and heart health. More than 75 percent of the sodium Americans eat comes from some processed, prepackaged and restaurant foods â not from the salt shaker.
He lived in Macomb, Illinois and taught English at Western Illinois University in the early 1970s, before settling in Oak Park, Illinois. He served as editor of a medical journal through much of the decade.
Author-was born at Mount Airy, Md. , April 30, 1781. His father, John Parke Custis, was a stepson of George Washington and his aide-de-camp at the siege of Yorktown, Va. The son was brought up at Mount Vernon, and attended St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., and the College of New Jersey, but was not graduated.lexander, Gerard. (Gerrard), was burgess from Fairfax county, session of 1752-1755. He was a great-grandson of John Alexander, the immigrant, and son of Robert Alexander, of Stafford County, and his wife, Anne Fowke, daughter of Col. Gerard Fowke, of Alexandria.