Re: Bananas (K-40)

[Franz Schoenhofer <schoenho@via.at>]

At 19:12 31.07.1998 -0500, you wrote:
>Thanks, Ron,
>
>To those of us 'of a certain age' the effect of low potassium is dramatic,
and
>we need to go for the banana or orange juice, as the common responses, but
>they are not so much greater sources than milk and other sources. 
>
>But I'd add that, while as Franz notes potassium is homeostatically
>controlled, nothing in the 'real world' is 'at once'. 

Well, you I hope that the citation marks I used for "at once" came through
from my German keyboard to your English (American) screens.

>Does anyone know the range of K between acceptably low and high levels, 

The report on my last blood analysis states "reference boundaries" of 3.9
to 5.5 - which I interpret that the actual value of a healthy person should
be between these levels. 



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