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Do you know what a low potassium diet stands for? A diet providing an individual with less than 2000 mg of potassium is termed as a low potassium diet. Potassium being a vital mineral required for the body sometimes becomes harmful when accumulated excessively in the body. Potassium keeps the people healthy by helping their heart function normally and maintaining the blood pressure. Apart from keeping the heart immune to a heart attack, the potassium provides complete protection to the nervous system, digestive system and muscles of the heart as well. Deficiency of potassium is met by consuming whole grains, vegetables, milk, fruits, peas and dried beans.

Now lets find out why the people are required to go on a low potassium diet. Actually an arbitrary consumption of some food products, containing maximum quantity of potassium, often results into excessive accumulation or storage of potassium in the body which as a result causes nausea, obfuscation, confusion and blood pressure resulting into abdominal inflammation and heart attack.      
 
People affected from kidney problem are the most vulnerable ones to different types of health complications to be caused by excessive accumulation of potassium in their body. Naturally the people suffering from cardiac problem are needed to adhere to a low potassium diet in order to let their heart beat function normally. 

There are many foods required to be consumed in limited quantity in order to maintain the potassium at its optimum level. Even a minor intemperance of such foods containing excessive potassium mineral can cause a noxious effect on the health of individuals. Lets have look at a the essential low potassium diet consisting of different essential foods.

• Wheat bread and wheat products.Cake.
• Coffee.
• Cookies without nuts or chocolate.
• Noodles.
• Pasta.
• Pies with not chocolate or high-potassium product.
• Rice.
• Tea (nicotine).
• Vegetables.
• Alfalfa sprouts.
• Asparagus.
• Beans.
• Red and green cabbage.
• Canned chestnuts.
• Cooked carrots.
• Celery.
• Corn.
• Cucumber.
• Eggplant.
• Fresh mushrooms.
• Green Peas.
• Kale.
• Leached potatoes.
• Lettuce.
• Mixed vegetables.
• Okra.
• Onions.
• Parsley.
• Peppers.
• Radish.
• Rhubarb.
• Water.
• Watercress.
• Fruits.Apple.
• Apricots.
• Blackberries.
• Blueberries.
• Cherries.
• Cranberries.
• Fruit cocktail.
• Grapes or grape juice.
• Half Grapefruit.
• Mandarin oranges.
• One fresh peach.
• One small pears.
• Pineapple juice.
• One plum.
• Rasp-berries.
• Strawberries.
• A whole tangerine.
• A cup of watermelon.

Avoid high potassium diet

Maximum number of people victimized of a high level of potassium existing in their blood suffer from a tingling sensation in their hands, feet, lethargy, debility and paralysis. Accumulation of potassium into the kidney poses a grave threat to the whole body. One of the most serious complications resulting out of a high level of potassium in the body is cardiac arrhythmia which leads to a cardiac arrest or a heart attack. Only a low potassium diet is the sole solution which can prevent all such types of complications by bringing down the existing level of potassium to its optimum level.  

People seeking to reduce their high potassium diet to low potassium diet are needed to have less than 2000 mg of potassium every day. People should avoid all the high potassium diet(2000mg to 4000mg potassium). Following is the list of high potassium diet which cardiac patients should avoid at their best.

• Bran and bran products.
• Chocolate.
• Granola .
• Milk.
• Molasses.
• Nuts and seeds.
• Peanut butter.
• Salt substitutes.
• Salt free broth.
• Tobacco.
• Yogurt.
• Vegetables.
• Acorn squash.
• Artichoke.
• Bamboo shoots.
• Baked beans.
• Butternut squash.
• Fresh or boiled beets.
• Black beans.
• Brussels sprouts.
• Chinese cabbage.
• Raw carrots.
• Dried beans and peas.
• Hubbard squash.
• Kohlrabi.
• Lentils.
• Legumes.
• Canned mushrooms.
• Parsnips.
• White and sweet potatoes.
• Pumpkin.
• Refried beans.
• Rutabagas.
• Cooked spinach.
• Tomatoes.
• Vegetable juices.
• Apricots.
• Avocado.
• Banana.
• Cantaloupe .
• Dried fruits.
• Figs.
• Grapefruit juice.
• Honeydew.
• Kiwi.
• Mango.
• Nectarine.
• Orange.
• Papaya.
• Pomegranate.
• Prune.
• Raisins.