Potasium and Sodium

tornbom
tornbom Posts: 7
in Food and Nutrition
After 2 weeks into MFP I have noticed the trend of not getting enough Potatisum and Sodium... anyone that can help with some suggestions.

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  • Tetonia
    Tetonia Posts: 79 Member
    many of the foods in the data base do not have their potassium content listed.
  • tornbom
    tornbom Posts: 7
    plus those that do have it still not enough e.g. potatoes, carrots etc. Accordingly to daily intake you should eat plenty so thought be a good question to ask. cant only live on potatoes.
  • Kellyscupcake
    Kellyscupcake Posts: 30 Member
    My sodium is always thru the roof!
  • SibylDiane
    SibylDiane Posts: 177 Member
    Sodium is an upper limit, you want to stay well under it, so don't worry about that.
    Potassium is tricky because as someone else noted, many of the foods in the database don't have their potassium included. My doctor wants me to eat a lot of potassium because I have high blood pressure. What I do is I have a list of 30 high potassium foods, and I make sure I eat at least two of them at each meal and one as a snack. My doctor and I went over this plan together and agreed that it will give me a good, healthy amount of potassium without having to research specific potassium levels and spending a lot of time editing the nutritional data for various foods here.

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