DASH DIET DAY 3
The DASH eating plan also emphasizes potassium from food, especially fruits and vegetables, to help keep blood pressure levels healthy. A potassium-rich diet may help to reduce elevated or high blood pressure, but be sure to get your potassium from food sources, not from supplements. Many fruits and vegetables, some milk products, and fish are rich in potassium. However, fruits and vegetables are rich in the form of potassium that favorably affects acid-base metabolism. This form of potassium (potassium with bicarbonate precursors) may help to reduce risk of kidney stones and bone loss. While salt substitutes containing potassium are sometimes needed by persons on drug therapy for high blood pressure, these supplements can be harmful to people with certain medical conditions. Ask your doctor before trying salt substitutes or supplements.
Here is their menu:
Here's what we had:
Breakfast:
3/4 C Raisin Bran
1 C milk
1 C cranberry-grape juice
lunch:
1 tuna sandwich with slice of cheese
1 medium avocado
1 fruit on the bottom yogurt
walnuts
dinner:
1 tuna sandwich with slice of cheese
1 large green tossed salad
2 T Italian dressing
1 medium banana
the tuna was prepared with 1 can tuna packed in water, 1 T miracle whip, 1 t mustard, 1 t pickle relish, and 1 hard boiled egg.
fruit: 4: raisins, cranberry-grape, fruit on the bottom yogurt, banana
vege: 3 avocado, large salad
sodium total:
potassium total:
Here is their menu:
Here's what we had:
Breakfast:
3/4 C Raisin Bran
1 C milk
1 C cranberry-grape juice
lunch:
1 tuna sandwich with slice of cheese
1 medium avocado
1 fruit on the bottom yogurt
walnuts
dinner:
1 tuna sandwich with slice of cheese
1 large green tossed salad
2 T Italian dressing
1 medium banana
the tuna was prepared with 1 can tuna packed in water, 1 T miracle whip, 1 t mustard, 1 t pickle relish, and 1 hard boiled egg.
fruit: 4: raisins, cranberry-grape, fruit on the bottom yogurt, banana
vege: 3 avocado, large salad
sodium total:
potassium total:
