Might You Need A List Of Foods High In Potassium? Oh, Really?
Researching and finding a worthwhile list of foods high in potassium these days, has almost become a insult. The majority of the information currently spread across the Internet is recycled rhetoric, rearranged, reworded and ultimately redone to be showcased as new. Sharing a list of foods high in potassium, without properly putting such information into real world context, is anything, but helpful, or best for your health, in fact.
It is my desire that my genuine effort to help you, make the truth known and ultimately transform my experience into words you can use that have led to my optimal health, disease free, or pain. Before we detail the potassium rich foods and their specificities, let us first discuss how vital potassium is in the human body, blood and cells, and how it could be a contradicting force if not properly maintained.
Have High Potassium Or Low Potassium?
It is unfair to simply assume high potassium or low potassium in your body should be countered by extreme, opposite measures to bring potassium levels back inline. This is a predictable 'cure-all' on so called 'health' web sites on the Internet. As obvious as poorly researched information usually is, whether all natural or not, is to simply do the opposite that ultimately resulted in either having too much potassium in your body or not enough.
In other words, although it might be logical at least in theory a human body depleted in a mineral can be resolved by adding or subtracting the intake of said mineral, or nutrient, potassium for this example until your ailment lessens or disappears completely.
Which is exactly why so many race to the internet in order to diagnose and get information previously warned about from often completely bogus online sites (the advice from just anybody with a computer and an internet connection found on Wikipedia presented as medical fact yes, actually could harm you more than help) that misrepresent factual statements, misinterpret medical meanings, and overtly lie in a shameful display of manipulation to persuade you to buy into an agenda, often the result of you departing with your funds.
Foods the boast high potassium include, but aren't limited to: bananas, dates, apricots, brewer's yeast (not the same as baking yeast - brewer's yeast is an over the counter supplement that you can find in most health stores, or online), brown rice, dulse (a type of seaweed, often sold in flat sheets dried and in the ethnic aisle at even conventional grocery stores - picture what sushi is wrapped in), garlic, dried fruits, winter squash, wheat bran, nuts, figs, herbs.
And that list of foods high in potassium is just the starting point. I will be adding more to the list in future weeks, addressing the low in potassium foods list and expanding upon it as time permits.
A couple last notes before diving into your high potassium or low potassium foods; keep this in mind.
If you have any issues with your kidneys, participate in any activity that encourages diarrhea, or you regularly smoke cigarettes, or you consume caffeine regularly, each and / or in combination will directly effect your potassium levels negatively.
For a continual resource dedicated to potassium levels and foods with potassium visit the potassium site dedicated to exactly that.
Published January 4th, 2008
Filed in Health