Imagine a world where food on grocery store shelves is ranked by its healthiness, with simple, research-backed scores. In ...

European Union countries and Australia have rolled out front-of-package nutrient profiling. Color-coding or star rankings let ...

One of the most common replacers for sodium is potassium. Potassium chloride, according to The George Institute for Global Health’s Claudia Selin Batz, has a similar taste to sodium chloride and is ...

Peak Energy, a developer of utility-scale energy storage systems, is partnering with a Colorado economic development agency to establish an engineering center in the state that will focus on the ...

Regulates Blood Pressure and Reduces the Risk of Stroke Because of potassium's relationship to sodium, which regulates fluid and plasma volume, some research has focused on its ability to lower blood ...

One of the most important things it does is regulate blood pressure by balancing the effects of sodium. Potassium can also support bone health and reduce the risk of kidney stones. While there isn ...

Electrolytes, such as sodium and potassium, are essential for several body functions. Everyone needs electrolytes to survive. Many automatic processes in the body rely on a small electric current ...

IN a recent article Dr. A. T. Wilson 1 notes that ‘the potassium/sodium ratio in rainwater is often larger by a factor of 10 than that in the sea—the obvious source’. His explanation is that ...