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For people over 50, and for African-Americans, the current recommended intake is even lower - 1,500 milligrams per day.

But consuming too little - somewhere below 3,000 milligrams - also raises health risks, they say.

In their view, a typical healthy person can consume as much as 6,000 milligrams per day without significantly raising health risks.

[1] milligrams isn't a unit of force, but hopefully you know what I mean; milli-ounces sounds too weird.

Consider this: Normal human blood sugar [1]: 70-100 milligrams per deciliter of blood.

Americans typically go way over the limit, ingesting about 3,500 milligrams per day.

Risk of death or other major events increased with intake above 6,000 milligrams.

For LSD it was 0.025 milligrams (which would be the smallest possible dose).

Tusko, the elephant from the famous LSD experiment, was injected with 297 milligrams.

A few milligrams of gold shouldn't be a big deal unless we're dealing with gold fever.

So what you might think, that's only a few milligrams per square.

Now the sentencing commission assumes a carrier weight of 0.4 milligrams (vs.

The critical disagreement concerns how to define "too much." Under the current dietary guidelines, too much is more than 2,300 milligrams of sodium per day...

They also get really cagey/evasive when you try to ask for quantifiable guidelines -- like "tell me how many milligrams of potassium to stay under per day".

"Coca-Cola once contained an estimated nine milligrams of cocaine per glass".

"The bionic leaf can pump out 216 milligrams of isopropanol per liter of water—an efficiency that rivals that of a corn plant making starch-rich kernels out of sunlight." Critical: how long does it take?