A Battle with Potassium and Lunch Schedules

I really hate bananas. I don't like the smell or the taste. Yet, I have a pretty bad potassium deficiency,  and needing to take supplements everyday to help me deal with the problems caused by this problem. Bananas, which everyone loves to tell me about when I mention I have a potassium deficiency, is a great source of potassium. Yes, I know this, but I hate bananas.

So here is my list of foods you can have to help your potassium levels when are like me and hate bananas...

• Sweet Potatoes
• Orange Juice
• Beet Greens
• Potatoes
• White Beans
• Dates
• Yogurt
• Tomatoes
• Clams

I found the information here at The Daily Green with more links to different foods rich in certain vitamins.

Now other ways I have found to help this deficiency and the other vitamin deficiencies I am faced with was to have a more stable eating schedule. The most important time for me in my opinion was having lunch which was extremely unstable at the school I taught. Two days of the week I was scheduled to eat lunch at high noon, then two more days I would eat 10 am, and finally the last day of the week I was eating lunch at 10:45 am. Now it wasn't my choice when I got to eat lunch, it was scheduled for me. Without a proper lunch I was pretty strung out by the end of the work day and with a potassium deficiency here are the symptoms I had to deal with on a day to day basis.....(Yes, I was taking my medication every day consistently).

Muscle Cramps Muscle Fatigue and Weakness Irregular Heartbeat Fatigue Mental Confusion Irritability Abnormally Dry Skin Insatiable Thirst Chills Depression Nausea and Vomiting Nervousness Insomnia Diarrhea Low Blood Pressure Periodic Headaches Salt Retention Constipation High Cholesterol Levels Glucose Intolerance Impaired Growth Edema Extreme cases, cardiac arres

`So thinking back to my previous post as to why I went to into IOPT, it makes a lot of sense and I am beginning to see how everything played into everything else.