Essex County was formed within East Jersey on March 7, 1683. The county was named in honor the English county of Kingdom of Essex, one of the historical kingdoms of England. When the provinces of East Jersey and West Jersey were combined in 1702, the county boundaries were retained.
For adults, the American H â¦ eart Association recommends that for every 1,000 Calories of food consumed, the sodium intake should be 1,000 mg and should not exceed the 3,000 mg limit. The average sodium intake in the US is between 4,000 and 5,000 mg of sodium per day.The UK RDA for adults is 1,600 milligrams of sodium.he Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Sciences, issued a report that lowered the recommended daily amount of sodium. Previously, the daily allowance was 2500 milligrams, but it has been lowered to 1500 milligrams per day.
At a meeting in late September 2009, the Sodium Working Group agreed to set a goal of reducing sodium in the Canadian diet to 2,300 mg per day â by 2016. That represents a five per cent reduction per year, based on the current average sodium intake of about 3,400 mg per day. When the group released its sodium reduction strategy on July 29, 2010, it said thousands of lives would be saved if Canadians cut their sodium intake by half.