Ann N. Martin
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 Potassium Sodium and potassium work together to maintain water balance in body tissue and cells. potassium also promotes a regular heartbeat, and works in maintaining the transfer of nutrients to the cells. potassium deficiencies may result in weakness, dehydration, slow growth, and irregular or rapid heartbeat. Natural sources of potassium are sardines, lentils, molasses, potatoes, parsnips, nuts, and whole grain cereals.
Selenium Selenium works with vitamin E as an antioxidant. It promotes healthy muscles, and is an essential element for healthy skin and coat. |
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| Research shows that people who are deficient in potassium are 1.5 to 2.5 times more likely to have a stroke. Aim for the government's recommended potassium intake of 4,700 milligrams (mg) daily. Although bananas are a popular source of potassium (one medium banana contains 457 mg of potassium), cantaloupe can be an even richer source (one cup of cantaloupe balls contains approximately 547 mg).
If you determine that sodium raises your blood pressure, limit your daily sodium intake to 2.4 grams (g) (slightly more than one teaspoon of salt).
•Exercise. |
Ann N. Martin
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| Potassium also promotes a regular heartbeat, and works in maintaining the transfer of nutrients to the cells. potassium deficiencies may result in weakness, dehydration, slow growth, and irregular or rapid heartbeat. Natural sources of potassium are sardines, lentils, molasses, potatoes, parsnips, nuts, and whole grain cereals.
Selenium Selenium works with vitamin E as an antioxidant. It promotes healthy muscles, and is an essential element for healthy skin and coat. Selenium deficiencies may result in weight loss, poor skin and coat condition, and tooth decay. |
Andreas Moritz
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 If your diet contains a goodly amount of potassium in natural form, you should have no concern about being harmed by the relatively small amount of sodium in real sea salt. Foods that are particularly high in potassium are bananas, apricots, avocados, pumpkin seeds, beans, potatoes, winter squash, and many other vegetables. However, if potassium levels in the body drop below normal, sodium (even in natural salt) can become a source of imbalance.
Celtic ocean salt (grayish in color) is a particularly good product to ingest because it is naturally extracted through sun drying. |
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| Aim for the government's recommended potassium intake of 4,700 milligrams (mg) daily. Although bananas are a popular source of potassium (one medium banana contains 457 mg of potassium), cantaloupe can be an even richer source (one cup of cantaloupe balls contains approximately 547 mg).
If you determine that sodium raises your blood pressure, limit your daily sodium intake to 2.4 grams (g) (slightly more than one teaspoon of salt).
•Exercise. Physical activity reduces the risk of heart disease, diabetes and hypertension— and may offer stroke protection as well. |
Jack Challem
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 Guideline 7: Season Your Foods with Herbs and Spices
Most people consume far too much sodium relative to potassium, reversing the ancient dietary ratio in which potassium dominated. In addition, sodium provides no nutritional value, and a sodium-potassium imbalance may be involved in a number of diseases, including edema, high blood pressure, kidney disease, and coronary heart disease.
While small amounts of RealSalt (a natural salt product) or sea salt are acceptable for most people, herbs and spices can add far more distinctive and enjoyable flavors to foods. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 The results came back showing Dawes had low levels of salt in her blood and high levels of potassium. Lenzer immediately suspected Addison's disease.
A relatively rare condition that is found in about one in one hundred thousand people, Addison's is nonetheless one of the first diagnoses a young doctor commits to memory. It occurs when the adrenal glands don't produce Cortisol, a hormone that's critical for the body's ability to maintain everything from blood pressure and salt-potassium balance to appetite and a sense of well-being. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Potassium (K): An electrolyte with levels that are tightly controlled throughout the body, potassium plays an important role in the electrical conduction in nerve, muscle, and heart tissues and is followed carefully if you are on a water pill. High levels can be caused by adrenal tumors, diabetes, renal insufficiency, congestive heart failure, and gastrointestinal bleeding. Low levels may be caused by vomiting and diarrhea.
Selenium: A trace mineral that is a cofactor for production of active antioxidant enzymes such as glutathione peroxidases and thioredoxin reductase. |
Gayle Reichler, M.S., R.D., C.D.N.
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 Supplementing your diet with 2,300 mg of potassium can significantly lower blood pressure if you also get at least 2,500 mg of potassium in your food daily. While many people do take potassium in supplemental tablet form, getting your potassium through foods is the optimal way to reduce your blood pressure. The chart below lists the most potassium-rich foods by serving size. Try to incorporate as many of these foods as possible into your eating plan. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Avoid These high-fructose corn syrup hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils enriched and bleached flour artificial sweeteners (aspartame, saccharine, sucralose, acesulfame potassium, and cyclamate potassium) monosodium glutamate (MSG) modified cornstarch sugar bromate olestra (brand name Olean) colorings known as FD&C Red No. 3, Yellow No. 6, Blue No. 1, Blue No. 2, and Green No. 3
Stock Up on Organic Herbs and Spices
When it comes to condiments and spices, we often resort to items that are full of preservatives, additives, and refined sugars. |
Jack Challem
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| Guideline 7: Season Your Foods with Herbs and Spices
Most people consume far too much sodium relative to potassium, reversing the ancient dietary ratio in which potassium dominated. In addition, sodium provides no nutritional value, and a sodium-potassium imbalance may be involved in a number of diseases, including edema, high blood pressure, kidney disease, and coronary heart disease.
While small amounts of RealSalt (a natural salt product) or sea salt are acceptable for most people, herbs and spices can add far more distinctive and enjoyable flavors to foods. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 They block the pump in the kidneys that transports sodium, potassium, and chloride, and cause a stronger output of urine. However, because of their strong action, they can cause life-threatening depletions of potassium, calcium, and magnesium, which can increase the risk of insomnia, falls, confusion, and heat stroke as well as that of blood clots and stroke. Lasix increases the loss of thiamine (vitamin B{) in the urine, which can lead to memory deficiency and other problems, but this side effect can be corrected with vitamin supplementation. |
Bruce H. Lipton
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 Every time this channel revolves, it shuttles three positive-charged sodium atoms out of the cytoplasm and simultaneously admits two positive-charged potassium atoms into the cytoplasm from the environment.
Sodium-potassium ATPase not only uses up a lot of energy, it also creates energy as surely as store-bought batteries provide energy for Game Boys (at least until your kids wear them out). Actually, the energy-producing activity of sodium-potassium ATPase is a lot better than the batteries your kids wear out because it turns the cell into a constantly recharging biological battery. |
Gayle Reichler, M.S., R.D., C.D.N.
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| Supplementing your diet with 2,300 mg of potassium can significantly lower blood pressure if you also get at least 2,500 mg of potassium in your food daily. While many people do take potassium in supplemental tablet form, getting your potassium through foods is the optimal way to reduce your blood pressure. The chart below lists the most potassium-rich foods by serving size. Try to incorporate as many of these foods as possible into your eating plan. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 The chemical properties of sodium and closely related potassium salts were elucidated by the same genetation of chemists who first produced oxygenated muriatic gas from sodium chloride. Studying the chemical makeup of vegetable alkali (potash) and mineral alkali (soda ash), it was Humphry Davy who finally settled matters on the elements trapped within them, wtiting in 1808, "Potassium and Sodium ate the names by which I have ventured to call the two new substances. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 Two of the major causes of exhaustion are loss of potassium ions and depletion of adrenal hormones like DHEA and Cortisol. Loss of potassium results in cellular dysfunction and, if it is severe, cell death. Lower levels of DHEA and Cortisol are associated, with extreme fatigue, impaired blood sugar control, and a diminished response to stress. While the entire body is affected by prolonged stress, the heart, blood vessels, adrenals, and immune system are affected the most. Not surprising, prolonged stress and poor stress management are associated with many common diseases. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| This ash, mixed in large pots, supplies the English derivation potash and, through it, the etymological source of potassium.
The Middle East, as it turned out, was quite a center for this sort of thing, in part through botanical and in part through geologic chance. A number of plants and minerals in the region are particulatly rich sources of potassium ot sodium alkalis that can be used in cleaning. In more than one place, the Bible has something to say on the subject. One of the relevant verses, mixing metaphor with practical advice, occurs in Jeremiah 2:22. |
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| Although bananas are a popular source of potassium (one medium banana contains 457 mg of potassium), cantaloupe can be an even richer source (one cup of cantaloupe balls contains approximately 547 mg).
If you determine that sodium raises your blood pressure, limit your daily sodium intake to 2.4 grams (g) (slightly more than one teaspoon of salt).
•Exercise. Physical activity reduces the risk of heart disease, diabetes and hypertension— and may offer stroke protection as well. |
Ray D. Strand
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 Five major minerals (calcium, magnesium, chloride, phosphorous, and potassium) and at least sixteen trace minerals are essential for optimal health. Plants cannot create minerals. They must absorb them from the soil. And if our soils do not have these minerals, our plants will not have them either.
And they don't. Why? Organic fertilizers that contain these minerals are expensive and difficult to obtain. U.S. farmers manage their costs by using fertilizers that replenish the soil with only nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium
(called NPK). |
Andreas Moritz
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| Foods that are particularly high in potassium are bananas, apricots, avocados, pumpkin seeds, beans, potatoes, winter squash, and many other vegetables. However, if potassium levels in the body drop below normal, sodium (even in natural salt) can become a source of imbalance.
Celtic ocean salt (grayish in color) is a particularly good product to ingest because it is naturally extracted through sun drying. Other great salts are sold at whole food stores or co-ops. Some are multicolored; others have a pink color. Himalayan salt is considered the best and most nutritious of all. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| To avoid the problem of potassium depletion with diuretics you can also take potassium supplements orally every day. One of these drugs, the so-called thiazide-like diuretic indapamide (Lozol), can cause life-threatening drops of sodium in the blood. In 1992 the Australian authorities reported 164 cases of this potentially life-threatening condition, which is associated with confusion, lethargy, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, loss of appetite, fatigue, fainting, sleepiness, and possible convulsions. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Other troublesome additives are sodium metabisulphite and potassium metabisulphite, nos 223 and 224 respectively, which are preservatives used in making sausages, dried fruit such as raisins and currants, some fruit yoghurts, jams and essences.
If you suspect an additive is responsible for the asthma, you will have to become adept at reading labels before you buy. Allergy testing may help you pin down exactly what the child is reacting to. (See also 'Food Allergies and Additives' in Chapter 8. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 This is a standard foaming cleanser that uses the soap derivative potassium myristate as the main cleansing agent, one that can be drying and sensitizing for some skin types. However, this cleanser also contains a battery of nonirritating plant oils for extra cushioning while cleansing. There are minute amounts of lavender, jasmine, and grapefruit for fragrance, but likely not enough to be problematic. Though pricey, this is still a decent cleansing option for normal to slightly dry skin.
© $$$ Rich Cream Cleanser ($22 for 4.2 ounces) is an emollient cleansing cream for dry to very dry skin. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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| Apple cider vinegar, nature's own drug-free anti-inflammatory, is rich in potassium, phosphorus and calcium, with lesser amounts of iron, chlorine, sodium, magnesium, sulphur, silicon and other trace minerals. This natural storehouse of good nutrients also contains amino acids, pectin and beta-carotene. Research centres and scientific studies around the world praise the preventive and curative powers of apple cider vinegar and we recommend that all asthmatics take a daily spoonful of it. |
| Other vital minerals are sodium and potassium. Trace elements such as chromium, cobalt, copper, fluorine, iodine, manganese, molybdenum, selenium, sulphur and zinc are present in the body in smaller quantities but are still needed in minute amounts.
Age and circumstance govern the amount of minerals a body requires. For instance, although children usually need less minerals than adults, growing children (under 17 years) need more calcium,-women require more iron than men and pregnant women and nursing mothers need additional iron and calcium. |
| Particularly high in calcium, iodine, zinc, potassium, magnesium and selenium, seaweed is also very rich in Vitamin C?an additional bonus for someone with asthma. Seaweed stimulates the immune system and in the past folk medicine used it to treat respiratory and gastrointestinal problems. Seaweed has also been shown to lower cholesterol and blood pressure and to maintain balanced thyroid activity.
Sourced from the sea bed, seaweed has added minerals not usually associated with 'earthly produce.
Japanese cuisine uses seaweed extensively, but Western cooking is not as adventurous. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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| The amount of potassium hydroxide can be drying, making this cleanser's use limited to those with oily skin (and a freewheeling budget).
© Dior Prestige Exquisite Lotion ($55for 6.7ounces) lists alcohol as the second ingredient, which at this price is just insulting. Even if the company's talked-up rare flower necrar had some benefit for skin, the alcohol would cancel it. Any, and I mean any, drugstore toner beats this product.
© $$$ Dior Prestige 20+1 Nutri-Restoring Creme ($250for 1. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| They can also cause dangerous elevations of potassium in the blood.
CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS
Calcium channel blockers act on the lining of the blood vessels. When these channels let calcium in, the blood vessels constrict. By blocking the calcium channels, these drugs cause the vessels to relax, and as a result blood pressure goes down. Examples of this type of drug include amlodipine (Norvasc), verapamil (Calan), nifedipine (Procardia, Adalat), and diltiazem (Tiazac). |
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