Researching and finding a worthy list of foods high in potassium these days, has nearly become a insult. Much of the information currently spread across the Internet is recycled rhetoric, juxtaposed, repackaged and ultimately redone to be presented as brand, spankin’ new. Handing over a list of foods high in potassium, without first presenting the bigger picture, is anything, but ideal, or best for your health, in fact.
It is my desire that my genuine attempt to help you, make the truth known and ultimately transform my experience into words you can use that have resulted in my healthy lifestyle, without disease, or pain. Before detailing the high potassium foods and their components, let us first discuss the importance of potassium in your human body, cells, and the reasons why it could be a dangerous result if not properly handled.
Experiencing High Potassium Or Low Potassium?
It is unfair to simply assume high potassium or low potassium in one’s body should be dealt with, by extreme, opposite actions to regulate potassium levels. This is the common thinking on so called ‘health’ web sites online. Often the prescribed remedy, whether all natural or not, is to simply do the opposite that ultimately caused either having too much potassium in your body or not enough.
In other words, although it might be logical at least in theory when the human body is depleted by a mineral can be remedied by adding or subtracting the consumption of said mineral, or nutrient, potassium in this situation until one’s ailment lessens or disappears entirely.
Which is exactly the reason so many clamor to the internet to ‘self-medicate’ and get more ‘research’ previously warned about from often completely fictional online sites (the ‘reporting’ found on Wikipedia represented as medical fact could kill you) that misrepresent factual statements, misinterpret medical meanings, and blatantly lie in a shameful display of manipulation to coax you to buy into a hidden agenda, often resulting in you departing with your funds.
The food that boasts higher potassium include, but are not limited to: bananas, dates, black strap molasses, 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, potatoes, dulse (a type of seaweed, usually sold in flat sheets dried and in the ethnic aisle at natural grocers – picture what sushi is wrapped in), garlic, dried fruits, winter squash, wheat bran, nuts, figs, herbs.
This list of foods high in potassium is just the starting point. I will be adding more to this list in future weeks, addressing the low in potassium foods list and growing it as time permits.
A couple last notes before you go diving into your high potassium or low potassium diet; keep this in mind.
If any of your symptoms or health conditions have anything to do with kidneys, you experience frequent bouts of diarrhea, or you regularly smoke cigarettes, or you consume caffeine regularly, each and / or in together will effect your potassium levels negatively.
For a continual resource dedicated to potassium levels and list of foods high in potassium go to the potassium site focused on just that.
- Jackie Black