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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 (
)]. 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 ( For more on what we evolved to eat, see Paleolithic Lessons ( This is the first of a three part series on potassium. Tomorrow we’ll explore its role in Preventing Strokes with Diet (
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