Increase potassium and cut salt to reduce stroke risk

bbc ^ | 4 April 2013

[Bigg Red]

Learned a new word: pulses (refers to legumes that grow in pods)

The article says that potassium is found in:

...most types of food, but particularly in fruit, such as bananas, vegetables, pulses, nuts and seeds, milk, fish, chicken and bread.

[Moonman62]

Not just fast food. Seems to me that all restaurants add too much salt and high sodium ingredients to their meals. Olive Garden, for example.

Olive Garden's the worst for salt. They want to sell you more drinks.

[JoeProBono]

While “nut” is in their name, peanuts are in fact legumes. Peanuts actually grow underground, as opposed to nuts like walnuts, almonds, etc. that grow on trees (and are sometimes referred to as "tree nuts").

[JoeProBono]

[Signalman]

I use Morton lite salt. Half sodium, half potassium.

[savedbygrace]

Cover that with the second piece of toast and it’s perfect.

(I usually put a little PB on the 2nd piece so it will stick to the bacon and banana.)

[Bigg Red]

Yes, I learned around 5th grade that peanuts are legumes — Lord only knows what they learn in 5th grade now. But peanuts do not, apparently, fall into the category of pulses, as the definition I found says the legumes referred to as “pulses” grow in pods.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Beware the advice of physicians who kill their patients.

Today about 30,000 a year in Britain alone.

That being said, if you really want more potassium in your diet, get a shaker of Morton salt substitute.

This is because supplements are usually limited to about 99mg of potassium, because otherwise they would be too big to swallow. Typically, a healthy adult person needs about 4,700mg a day (via WebMD), so a 99mg dose is tiny.

However, 1/4 tsp of Morton salt substitute contains 610mg of potassium, which is about 17% US RDA.

[JoeProBono]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut

[Slings and Arrows]

Why do I have a feeling that someone will reading this article, gobble potassium like there’s no tomorrow, and go into hyperkalemia?

[JoeProBono]

[Slings and Arrows]

Ayep. Neurons have to dump potassium when they fire. Too much potassium means hyperpolarized neurons.

Electrolytes are like garlic on a steak - just because a little is good, that doesn’t mean that a lot is better.

[Revolting cat!]

Where do you buy potassium, at building supply magazines? Can you buy less than 50 lbs at a time?

[JoeProBono]

[Revolting cat!]

Mmmmm, I don't think so...