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[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

I think I may have discovered

(the Fountain of Youth)

the reason for my muscle twitches and irregular heartbeat: low potassium.

My question is, which foods are chock-full of the stuff? (I'm too lazy to spend 5 minutes searching Google. Chalk it up to low potassium.) Because I'm a homophobe, I'm not very fond of bananas. What are some alternatives? Turns out there's not much potassium in potato chips and Snickers bars.

Funny thing is, I think orange juice has lots of potassium; but for the past 8 weeks I've drunken a tall glass of OJ every morning, and yet the problem persists. In fact, it may actually have worsened.

Maybe I should see a doctor. I look forward to him postulating that I have AIDS or MS.

BSS_*_

[Delirium's Brother]

bananas

"a banana a day keeps the twitching away."

Read

The miracle fruit! Get over your fears! Cut it up in your breakfast cereal. BTW go to the doctor anyway. I need you to survive long enough to find me a job

[cwemory]

Apricots
Artichokes
Avocados
Bananas
Cantaloupe
Cod
Dates
Dry beans (i.e. kidney beans and navy beans)
Figs
Flounder
Honeydew melons
Kiwi
Lentils
Nuts
Oranges
Peaches
Potatoes
Prunes
Pumpkins
Raisins
Salmon
Sardines
Potassium-based salt replacements
Tomatoes
Watermelons

Some drugs (diuretics and laxatives) are known to cause low potassium levels.

[Corporal]

Just take a supplement. You'd have to eat a lot of bananas to combat a deficiency. And that might have a lot of unpleasant side effects.

[Rteacher]

A great source of potassium (and natural sugar) are dates. They often carry them at the Foreign Food store on "hooker hill"...

Alcohol, coffee, common salt and white sugar reportedly deplete your potassium levels so you might want to find healthier substitutes. I prefer using sea salt - but in Korea it costs at least five times what it does in the U.S... http://www.consumerhealth.org/articles/display.cfm?ID=19990817230721

Regarding orange juice (at least what's available in Korea) I also had some muscle spasms (or something - maybe arthritus ...) in my hands and it seemed to get worse when I drank orange juice.

[huffdaddy]

[tzechuk]

[quote="Tiberious aka Sparkles"]I think I may have discovered

(the Fountain of Youth)

the reason for my muscle twitches and irregular heartbeat: low potassium.
/quote]

You are probably right because when I was pregnant, my doctor back home in the UK told me that if I ever got a leg cramp, it was probably because I was low on potassium and he told me to eat bananans...... taking a potassium supplement during pregnancy is apparently not advisable.. not that you are pregnant and need to know that.

Anyway.. uh.... drink banana and apricot smoothies?

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

[ChopChaeJoe]

Man, i bought a big ol' huge bag of sea salt the last time I was in gunsan for 1,000.

But unless I see authoritiv prrof to the contrary, it's chemically the same as the regular stuff. Calcium chloride.

[Rteacher]

Reportedly, sea salt has way more minerals, has a different crystal composition, and doesn't have the harmful additives that common salt has. (Of course, the more polluted the ocean gets, the less healthy sea salt would become...)http://www.curezone.com/foods/saltcure.asp

I have seen one cheap Korean brand that's labeled in English "sea water salt", but that may (or may not) be a loose translation/interpretation ... All the imported stuff is sky high - up to 30,000 won for for an amount less than half the size of a regular salt container...