Potassium and its significant counterpart, Sodium, often are completely misunderstood and the general public rely on general opinion or worse, health myths, not facts. In fact, these self-appointed health “brainiacs” that are clueless about the health benefits of each component and the fact that they work in synergy within your body is a elementary point that is often missed. Worse, are the people interested in health that are quick to point to a banana as standby favorite source of Potassium, but in the same phrase scoff anyone who adds salt to the food they are eating. A quick clue that they probably don’t actually have any inkling what in the world they have been talking about, after all.
Thousands will try to convince you that foods high in Potassium are what you need when you first are under the belief that your diet is deficient in Potassium or Sodium both. Big mistake to agree to that what might seem like an easy to diagnose health problem.
Potassium and Sodium both, work in harmony with the other within your body. Your Potassium and Sodium balance is the Not nearly as common, there are people who are just the opposite, having their diet not have enough Sodium, believe it or not, resulting in a low Sodium diet and their Potassium is the one that’s off the charts. Possible, yes, but not likely in America, or the Western world. People, who eat a constant diet of only fruit, run the worst risk of potentially having much too much Potassium in their body’s makeup.
- Janet Quaren