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Originally Posted by bwd  Are you at all concerned about getting too much potassium? I'm not sure what the normal threshold is, but I do know that it can be bad for your heart to get too much. |
No need to concern about getting too much potassium. It's just nature's way or nature's ratio. Even if you have a 40 to 1 ratio, you're still doing just fine. And for health reasons the only sodium that should be consumed is organic or from plant sources. Any kind of table salt, even sea salt or Real Salt or Himalayan sea salt is a toxic poison to the human body.
What people don't realize is in most raw foods there's much more potassium than sodium and that many raw foods and even vegetables have a higher level of potassium per calorie than even bananas do.
Per calorie spinach has 6 times more potassium than bananas do. But here's the kicker, per calorie spinach has at least 87 times more sodium than bananas do. Here's a link to a chart I've created of the major alkaline minerals contained in 11 different raw foods per a 25 calorie basis. You have to scroll down the page a bit to see the chart.
Raw Health and Happiness Society - Meeting Notes
Yesterday I ate a ton of vegetables and especially spinach which resulted in me consuming a total of:
Sodium: 1631.4 mg
Potassium: 23537 mg
For the day.
Or about a 14 to 1 potassium to sodium ratio. This ratio was much lower for me yesterday because I ate so many vegetables and fruit that were high in sodium. But I also ate 20 large sized bananas.
Total calories for the day of 3,072. As for people thinking a fruit diet will make a person fat. I'm at around 5% bodyfat while eating as much as I want to eat. I've been eating 100% raw for over 6.5 years now and my weight has stayed stable during that time.
Essentially I lost at least 10 to 15 pounds of fat and water weight from my cooked food days. All while eating as much food as I desired to eat. Since I was never trying to lose weight.
I don't count calories. I just entered my food intake into
FitDay - Free Weight Loss and Diet Journal to get a readout since I was eating such a high level of vegetables yesterday.
I had 3 large bags spinach (30 ounces total). I also had three heads of romaine. These are not full heads but the kind that comes packaged in a bag. I also had two cucumbers, and about 6 medium stalks of celery.
I've never eaten so much greens in a day. And even with this incredible greens consumption, I still barely achieved 500 calories in the day from vegetables. (Cucumber isn't technically a vegetable but it it's considered a vegetable from a nutritional and or culinary viewpoint.)
So by stuffing myself full of vegetables I was still only capable of getting 16% of my calories from vegetables.
I think you'll find this interesting as well. On a raw food diet with no fatty foods added at all yesterday (no nuts, seeds, avocados, coconuts or oil of any kind.) 13% of my calories came from protein.
Another interesting fact is that spinach is 64% protein if you measure per calorie. Or 64% protein, 18% carbs and 18% fat.
I had 93 grams of protein yesterday. Also I had an astoundingly high level of fiber or 134 grams. Though I didn't notice myself going to the bathroom more than usual. But I always go at least 3 times per day. Regularity and a total lack of constipation is another benefit of eating raw.
I hope this information has been useful to you, Roger