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A Low Potassium Diet – 3 Tips To Make It Easier To Follow
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Mathea Ford
A Low Potassium Diet – 3 Tips To Make It Easier To
Follow
A low potassium diet is a diet that is usually recommended for people who have
journeyed down the road towards end stage renal disease.
As your kidneys start to fail,
it’s...
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A Low Potassium Diet – 3 Tips To Make It Easier To
Follow
A low potassium diet is a diet that is usually recommended for people who have
journeyed down the road towards end stage renal disease.
As your kidneys start to fail,
it’s difficult for them to process the potassium in foods and eliminate it.
As potassium builds up in your body, it can affect muscles and how they work.
Especially muscle contraction.
Our bodies are made of muscles, but one of the most
important muscle that you don’t want to have stop working is your heart.
So a low
potassium diet can help you make sure you don’t have too much potassium in your blood
and affect your heart’s ability to contract and pump blood throughout your body.
So for some tips to follow, you need to know the following about a low potassium diet:
1.
You should avoid a “salt substitute” that is white.
You can use all the Mrs.
Dash that
you like, but don’t use the nu salt or other types of salt replacements that are made from
potassium ch
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