potatoes and bananas

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Two of the best sources of potassium are potatoes and bananas. The one is

very starch-dense and the other is very sugar-dense, and both are high-GI

foods. If we get rid of them, we are getting rid of two very important

micro-nutrient sources, in my opinion. While most fruits, etc, have

potassium, it is important to have very potassium-dense foods in the diet to

help balance sodium. Having increased potassium enables us to add more sea

salt into our diet without throwing out of whack our sodium-potassium

balance, causing mental inefficiency and other problems, thus increasing our

trace mineral and especially iodine intake for a healthy thyroid.

Of course people can be healthy without them, but nevertheless, especially in

terms of _affordable_ foods in our region of the globe, these I think are

important. And from reading and from my own experience, potatoes are fine if

they are eaten with lots of butter (baked) or oil (roasted), and bananas are

fine if I eat one split between breakfast and lunch, rather than a whole one

with one meal.

Chris

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heart which burns with love for every creature: for human beings, birds, and

animals, for serpents and for demons. The thought of them and the sight of

them make the tears of the saint flow. And this immense and intense

compassion, which flows from the heart of the saints, makes them unable to

bear the sight of the smallest, most insignificant wound in any creature.

Thus they pray ceaselessly, with tears, even for animals, for enemies of the

truth, and for those who do them wrong. "

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