Sentences with phrase «increased dietary potassium»

Current national guidelines recommend weight control, reduced intake of sodium chloride (salt), reduced alcohol consumption, and possibly increased dietary potassium as nutritional approaches to prevent and treat hypertension.2, 3

However, in a new review article, University of Southern California researchers found that increasing dietary potassium is as important to improving the risk factors for cardiovascular and kidney disease as limiting dietary sodium.

People with conditions affecting fluid balance — including kidney disease, some hormonal conditions, and heart failure — should work with their doctor before deliberately trying to increase their dietary potassium.

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Research shows that an increased intake of potassium from food sources may be more effective than reducing dietary sodium intake.