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Food, Standard Amount Potassium (mg) Kilocalories Potassium (mmol) Potassium (mmol/100 kcal) Beet greens, cooked,1/2cup 655 19 17 88 Spinach, cooked,1/2cup 419 21 11 51 Tomato juice,3/4cup 417 31 11 34 Tomato paste,1/4cup 664 54 17 31 Tomato puree,1/2cup 549 48 14 29 Winter squash, cooked,1/2cup 448 40 11 29 Blackstrap molasses, 1 Tbsp 498 47 13 27 Tomato sauce,1/2cup 405 39 10 27 Cantaloupe,1/4medium 368 47 9 20 Carrot juice,3/4cup 517 71 13 19 Honeydew melon,1/8medium 365 58 9 16 Sweetpotato, baked, 1 potato (146 g) 694 131 18 14 Cod, Pacific, cooked, 3 oz 439 89 11 13 Apricots, dried, uncooked,1/4cup 378 78 10 12 Lima beans, cooked,1/2cup 484 104 12 12 Milk, non-fat, 1 cup 382 83 10 12 Yogurt, plain, non-fat, 8-oz container 579 127 15 12 Rockfish, Pacific, cooked, 3 oz 442 103 11 11 Clams, canned, 3 oz 534 126 14 11 Potato, baked, flesh, 1 potato (156 g) 610 145 16 11 Orange juice,3/4cup 355 85 9 11 Peaches, dried, uncooked,1/4cup 398 96 10 11 Halibut, cooked, 3 oz 490 119 13 11 Tuna, yellowfin, cooked, 3 oz 484 118 12 10 Bananas, 1 medium 422 105 11 10 Plantains, cooked,1/2cup slices 358 90 9 10 Prune juice,3/4cup 530 136 14 10 White beans, canned,1/2cup 595 153 15 10 Soybeans, green, cooked,1/2cup 485 127 12 10 Buttermilk, cultured, low-fat, 1 cup 370 98 9 10 Yogurt, plain, low-fat, 8-oz container 531 143 14 9 Kidney beans, cooked,1/2cup 358 112 9 8 Lentils, cooked,1/2cup 365 115 9 8 Split peas, cooked,1/2cup 355 116 9 8 2% milk, 1 cup 366 122 9 8 Prunes, stewed,1/2cup 398 133 10 8 Soybeans, mature, cooked,1/2cup 443 149 11 8 Rainbow trout, farmed, cooked, 3 oz 375 144 10 7 Yogurt, plain, whole milk, 8 oz container 352 138 9 7 Pork loin, center rib (roasts), lean, roasted, 3 oz 371 190 9 5 Pork chop, center loin, cooked, 3 oz 382 197 10 5

Serious leisure

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Serious leisure is the systematic pursuit of an amateur, hobbyist, or volunteer core activity that is highly substantial, interesting, and fulfilling and where, in the typical case, participants find a (leisure) career in acquiring and expressing a combination of its special skills, knowledge, and experience. The adjective "serious" (a word research interviewees often use to describe their free time passion) embodies such qualities as earnestness, sincerity, importance, and carefulness. This adjective, basically a folk term, signals the importance of these three types of activity (viz., amateur, hobbyist, or volunteer core activity) in the everyday lives of participants, in that pursuing the three eventually engenders deep self-fulfillment.

Amateurs

Amateurs are found in art, science, sport, and entertainment, where they are inevitably linked, one way or another, with professional counterparts who coalesce, along with the public whom the two groups share, into a three-way system of relations and relationships. By contrast hobbyists lack the professional alter ego of amateurs, though they sometimes have commercial equivalents and often have small publics who take an interest in what they do. The professionals are identified and defined in (economic rather than sociological) terms that relate well to amateurs and hobbyists, namely, as workers who are dependent on the income from an activity that other people pursue with little or no remuneration as leisure.

Hobbyists

Hobbyists are classified according to five categories: 1) collectors, 2) makers and tinkerers, 3) activity participants (in noncompetitive, rule-based, pursuits such as fishing and barbershop singing), 4) players of sports and games (in competitive, rule-based activities with no professional counterparts like long-distance running and competitive swimming) and 6) the enthusiasts of the liberal arts hobbies, which are primarily reading pursuits.

Volunteers

Volunteers, whether pursuing serious, casual, or project-based leisure, offer uncoerced help, either formally or informally, with no or, at most, token pay, for the benefit of both other people (beyond the volunteer's family) and the volunteer. Nevertheless the reigning conception of volunteering in nonprofit sector research is not that of volunteering as leisure (the volitional conception), but rather that of volunteering as unpaid work. This latter, economic, conception defines volunteering as the absence of payment for a livelihood, whether in money or in kind. This definition largely avoids the messy question of motivation so crucial to the volitional conception.

Further distinguishing characteristics of serious leisure

Serious leisure is further distinguished from two other forms of leisure -- casual and project-based -- by six qualities found exclusively or in highly elaborated expression only in the first. These qualities are 1) need to persevere at the activity, 2) availability of a leisure career, 3) need to put in effort to gain skill and knowledge, 4) realization of various special benefits, 5) unique ethos and social world, and 6) an attractive personal and social identity. Several personal and social rewards (e.g., self-fulfillment, contribution to the group or community) help further explain a person’s interest in serious leisure, which at bottom, is their leisure experience.

The serious leisure perspective

Serious leisure, along with the casual and project-based forms, constitute the serious leisure perspective. It is the theoretic framework that synthesizes what is known scientifically about these three main forms of leisure, showing at once, their distinctive features, similarities, and interrelationships. While this Perspective has its roots in the leisure experiences of individuals as they pursue their core leisure activities, it also provides a way of looking on the social, cultural, and historical context of those experiences and core activities.