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WW2 Salt Tablets
Sep 24, 2021, 8:38 PM
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During WW2 we were given salt tablets to replace the salt we lost through sweat. This was the message we received. In one of the outfits I was in during the war, it was determined some of the men were not following the "take your salt". From that point on, as long as I was in that company, one day each week we had to go by the lister bag with our canteen. One of the officers was standing near the lister bag and gave each man a salt tablet and recorded on a chart that each man had indeed had his salt. Later on, we learned that those salt tablets were really not justified
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The Army was still giving us those
Sep 24, 2021, 8:46 PM
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tablets in Basic Training in 1969……. likely 25 years after it was determined that all they did was give folks stomach cramps. We took them much more often than weekly. In Nam they sent us soft drinks sweetened with Cyclamate after that was banned in the States for supposedly being linked to cancer. Follow the science for real.
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Re: The Army was still giving us those
Sep 25, 2021, 9:59 AM
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I was working in a supermarket, dumped cases of Gatoraid down the drain, but took a few cases home.
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Re: WW2 Salt Tablets
Sep 24, 2021, 8:52 PM
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Could of been worse. Could of been Castor oil. Bend over and heaved one over the razor fence,
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At least they didn't sneak you into MK-Ultra
Sep 24, 2021, 9:20 PM
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Seems like the salt would actually dry you out, and increase dehydration risks
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Re: At least they didn't sneak you into MK-Ultra
Sep 25, 2021, 9:21 AM
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salt causes you to retain water, that is why it also raises your blood pressure and causes cramping. Now we have Gatorade to replace salts and electrolytes for athletes that do sweat a lot.
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Re: At least they didn't sneak you into MK-Ultra
Sep 25, 2021, 9:58 AM
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Things like Gatorade do work.
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Re: WW2 Salt Tablets
Sep 25, 2021, 9:02 AM
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We had salt tablets with athletic teams in the early 60's.
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Re: WW2 Salt Tablets
Sep 25, 2021, 9:03 AM
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high-school athletic teams
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Re: WW2 Salt Tablets
Sep 25, 2021, 9:14 AM
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We had them too in high school football in SC during August two a day practices in the late 70s. The practice stopped in the early 80s.
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Re: WW2 Salt Tablets
Sep 25, 2021, 9:33 AM
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Yeah, we had them at Daniel HS in the weight
room next to the water fountain in the late
70s (I graduated in '80). I think they were
gone soon after since my 2 younger brothers
didn't have them. I used to take a couple of
them after a workout; would be way too much
sodium intake now.
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