Sodium cookies & muffins vs. Potassium cookies & muffins

Do you bake cookies and muffins? Or at least, eat some once in a while?

Then you use, or are eating, baking soda or baking powder or both. And both have tons of sodium and no potassium. That’s bad! Especially for your heart. Very bad!

According to the USDA and most health practitioners, the body needs about twice as much potassium as sodium. And it’s really easy to get the sodium. It’s in thousands of foods. Not so with potassium. Plus, the body has no way to store potassium. What a bummer! That means you need to take in about 4,700 mg of potassium every day. That’s a lot of potassium. Where are you going to get it? With sodium, all you need is about 2300 mg (maximum) per day and no sweat if you don’t have access to salt crystals - unless you’re a desert nomad.

What’s even worse is that the more sodium you put in your body, the faster your body gets rid of whatever potassium it’s getting. Unless you’ve got problems with your kidneys that prevent them from dumping excess potassium, you need to lower your sodium intake and increase your potassium intake, big time. Good kidneys will even it all out.

So we’re back to the old story that salt (sodium chloride) is a bad thing. But now, avoiding salt isn’t enough. Sodium is the real problem. It’s in nearly everything we eat! But it doesn’t have to be. Cookie-wise and muffin-wise, at least.

Just dump the old baking sodas and baking powders and use ones containing potassium and low sodium. The ones below from ener-g.com and hainpurefoods.com haven’t got any sodium at all. But you’re not likely to find them in your local store. They’re nearly as hard to find as hen’s teeth. If you can’t or don’t want to bake your own, find someone who’ll do it for you.

Entrepreneurs take note: heart healthy cookies and muffins could be very profitable.

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