Thor's theories on the movement of S. American Indians to the S. Pacific and other things don't make much sense. Can one of our educated chemist types calculate the per cent salt in such a mixture? I think it sounds like gastrointestinal upset except that it might be close to a normal saline solution. At 10:05 PM 4/25/2000 -0400, Gratytshrk_at_aol.com wrote: >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 This sounds like 50's outdated 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/ >*************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** 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 - 21:40:38 PDT
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