A typical Western diet provides roughly how many times more sodium than the minimum the body actually requires per day?

1. Typical Western dietary sodium intake as 130 to 160 mmol/day. 2. It gives the actual physiological requirement as only 1 to 2 mmol/day. 3. Dividing intake by requirement (130/2 to 160/1) gives a range of roughly 65 to 160 times the minimum need. 4. 'About 2 times' and 'about 10 times' badly understate this gap, and '500 times' overstates it. 5. About 2 times and About 10 times are both different figures a reader might guess from memory, but neither matches the specific figure given here. 6. So 'about 65 to 160 times' is the closest correct range. _Source: OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology (CC BY 4.0), Ch 26 "Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance", p.1260 §Sodium_