Category Archives: Potassium

Calcium and Potassium Supplements For Bone Health

Posted on June 22, 2016 by Robert Barrington

Bone is composed on a number of macrominerals, the most well known of which is calcium. Calcium is an essential divalent cation required by humans for a number of physiological roles, one of which to to provision for the formation … Continue reading →

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Sodium Chloride and Bone Health

Posted on June 21, 2016 by Robert Barrington

Sodium is a cationic metal that is essential to health. However, the Western diet is considered by many researchers to contain too much sodium chloride (table salt). The reason that the Western diet is high in sodium chloride is because … Continue reading →

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The Role of Nutrition In Acid Base Balance

Posted on June 16, 2016 by Robert Barrington

Mammals have complex regulatory mechanism that maintain the pH of tissues, including the blood, within a narrow range of limits. This is required because the enzymes that are contained within these tissues are only able to function within narrow ranges … Continue reading →

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Estimates of Acid-Base Status: Protein, Phosphorus, Potassium and Magnesium

Posted on June 15, 2016 by Robert Barrington

It is increasingly being recognised that the acid base balance of the blood is an important determinant of fitness and health. This is evidenced by the observation that alkalinisation of blood is beneficial to athletes in allowing increased ability to … Continue reading →

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The Sodium to Potassium Ratio: Marker for A Low Quality Diet?

Posted on September 11, 2015 by Robert Barrington

The typical Western diet is a low quality diet consumed by many individuals in the developed nations of the Western Europe, North America and Australasia. In particular, the typical Western diet includes high amounts of refined and processed foods that … Continue reading →

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Cheap Sports Drink Alternative

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Robert Barrington
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Very Low Calorie Diets: Sudden Death?

Posted on April 28, 2015 by Robert Barrington

The ‘eat-too-much, do-too-little’ hypothesis of obesity suggests that weight gain is caused by a positive energy balance on account of greed and apathy by the individuals. In this regard, too much food or too little exercise is blamed for an … Continue reading →

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Big Mike Says Go Bananas

Posted on January 24, 2015 by Robert Barrington

Bananas cultivation may have originated in Malaysia over 4000 years ago, but has since spread to Africa, the Middle East and America through colonisation. Bananas are worthy of nutritional consideration because so many are produced and consumed Worldwide. In fact … Continue reading →

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Sodium Does Not Elevate Blood Pressure

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Robert Barrington

Proponents of the sodium theory of blood pressure propose that high intakes of dietary sodium are a cause of elevated blood pressure. This is suggested to occur through an increase in the fluid retained in extracellular tissue including the vascular … Continue reading →

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Avocado: Suppresses Insulin Release?

Posted on January 14, 2015 by Robert Barrington

The avocado is a fruit from a the Persea americana tree. Its knobbly, green tough outer skin has earnt it the alternative name of the alligator pear. Avocados are native to Central American regions where they have been cultivated for … Continue reading →

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