This brings up something i have wondered about. In Kon Tiki, Thor Hierdayl reports the crew mixing up to 40% salt water with there drinking water and completely quenching their thirst with less volume than with fresh water. He claims that tropical increases in thirst are due partly to decreased sodium from insensible losses such as sweating. This sounds like 50's outdated medical theory to me, but what is the general consensus? Robin. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Apr 25 2000 - 19:05:23 PDT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:30:23 PDT