electrolyte defined nutrition

A nutritional plan in which electrolyte content is defined. In the human body, minerals absorbed from foods act as electrolytes and play a role in the maintenance of relative pressure in the body and during metabolic processes. Electrolyte-defined nutrition is presribed for sufferers of kidney and liver complaints and of high blood pressure.

Examples of this type of nutrition are:

• low-sodium
• low-potassium
• high-potassium
• phosphate-reduced
• low-calcium
• high-calcium

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