How many slices of pizza can you eat in one sitting?

1 slice of pizza is already 600 - 700 mg sodium so 6 is really dangerous for your health in the long run. Remember the daily upper limit of sodium is 2200 mg per day. 600 x 6 = 3600 mg of sodium way over the upper limit. It's very very hard on the kidneys especially.
 
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I can eat quite a few but not very often, or instead try homemade. I would be willing to eat more, but the slices are smaller and the crust is thinner.
 
Artisan Vistra said:
I can eat quite a few but not very often, or instead try homemade. I would be willing to eat more, but the slices are smaller and the crust is thinner.
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Yes that's the safer way of eating Pizza.

Article from US national library of medicine

Americans are told to reduce sodium and increase potassium intake - PMC

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Almost all Americans and Canadians consume too much salt and not enough potassium, increasing their risk of high blood pressure, stroke, coronary artery disease, and kidney disease, a report from the US Institute of Medicine says. The report was based on a comprehensive review of the scientific literature and was sponsored by a number of US and Canadian governmental organisations and foundations.

The report says unequivocally that blood pressure rises progressively as sodium intake increases. About 25% of Americans have high blood pressure, and more than half of people aged over 60 do.

Healthy adults aged between 19 and 50 years should consume 1.5 g of sodium (equivalent to 3.8 g of salt) a day to replace losses through perspiration but should not exceed 2.3 g (5.8 g of salt), the report said. The upper limit should be lower in people aged over 50 and people with hypertension, diabetes, or kidney disease, because they are especially sensitive to the hypertensive effects of salt.

"If people choose foods to meet this level of sodium intake, they should be able to meet the recommended intakes for other nutrients such as calcium and vitamin A as well," said Dr Lawrence Appel, chairman of the panel behind the report and professor of medicine, epidemiology, and international health at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.

The bad news is that more than 95% of American men, 90% of Canadian men, 75% of American women, and 50% of Canadian women regularly consume more than the recommended upper limit of sodium. Median daily salt intake ranges between 7.8 g and 11.8 g (according to age group) in US men, 5.8 g and 7.8 g in US women, 7.1 g and 9.7 g in Canadian men, and 5.1 g and 6.4 g in Canadian women. These figures do not include salt added at the table, so total intake is probably higher.

Furthermore, Americans and Canadians are consuming only about half the recommended daily amount of potassium: 4.7 g. Potassium blunts the effects of salt, lowers blood pressure, and reduces the risk of kidney stones and bone loss. US men consume 2.8 to 3.3 g of potassium and women 2.2 to 2.4 g. Canadians consume somewhat more potassium than Americans, but African-Americans in the United States consume less.

Increased potassium intake may be especially beneficial for African-Americans, the report says. The panel did not set an upper limit for potassium, but people with kidney dysfunction and people taking some drugs ought to take less.

"Eighty per cent of the sodium comes from processed food. There are very few high sodium foods. Almost all is added during processing," said one of the committee members, Dr Paul Whelton, professor of epidemiology and medicine at Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans. Fruit and vegetables are naturally high in potassium, low in sodium, high in fibre, and high in antioxidants, he said.

Speaking at a press conference, Dr Appel pointed out: "Two slices of pizza contain about half of the upper level of sodium. Consuming this one meal would leave little room for additional sodium intake at other meals throughout the day." He called for the government to work with the food industry to decrease the amount of sodium in prepared and processed foods.

Dr Whelton said that high sodium intake was implicated in major health problems: 15 million deaths a year worldwide from cardiovascular disease and stroke, three times as many serious incidents requiring hospitalisation, and 10 times as many less serious incidents.

"You can't treat sudden death, but you can treat the precursors. Long term, we have to tackle the issue of diets and blood pressure and cholesterol," he said.
 
My age is showing, I used to be able to eat a whole frozen pizza easily, but getting a few slices short of doing that. For pizza that I order out, usually its 5-7 slices.
 
If I'm extremely hungry I can eat 4 in one sitting. I usually try and only eat 2 though. I love pizza but it gives me heartburn at times.
 
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