98% of American Diets Potassium Deficient
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2012-12-19

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DESCRIPTION: Less than 2% of Americans achieve even the recommended minimum adequate intake of potassium due primarily to inadequate plant food intake. People eating plant-based diets are often asked where they get their protein [and have to explain that plants are the preferred source (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant-protein-preferable/
)]. Maybe they should then ask where people eating conventional diets get their potassium--or their fiber for that matter, see Relieving Yourself of Excess Estrogen (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/relieving-yourself-of-excess-estrogen/). For more on what we evolved to eat, see Paleolithic Lessons (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/paleolithic-lessons/). This is the first of a three part series on potassium. Tomorrow we'll explore its role in Preventing Strokes with Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/preventing-strokes-with-diet/).

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