Potassium is a mineral that is essential for heart and muscle function. It is found in foods like vegetables, fruits, meat, milk, and nuts. Not getting enough potassium can cause issues like diarrhea and muscle cramps, while too much can potentially cause heart problems. Bananas are high in potassium and eating them can help lower blood pressure. However, consuming too many bananas could theoretically cause harm.

2. WHAT IS POTASSIUM?
1. A potassium is a kind of a mineral we need to
survive.
2. potassium is crucial to heart function, and
plays a role in skeletal and smooth muscle
contraction.
3. if we don’t have potassium, we might have
diarrhea, vomiting, and excessive sweating.
4. if somebody has high blood pressure, they
need potassium to lower it again.
5. Potassium is an essential dietary mineral and
electrolyte.
6. they are also called electrolytes because they
conduct electricity when they dissolve in water.

3. WHAT DOES POTASSIUM DO TO OUR BODY?

4. WHERE DO WE GET POTASSIUM?
1. We usually get them from vegetables, and
fruits, meat and milk products and nuts of
every kind.
2. You get them especially from bananas.
3. However we have to eat more like fresh frozen
foods.
4. but we can get a lot from them in canned
fruits or vegetables.

5. FUNNY FACTS!!!!
1. Athletics usually have more Potassium than
other people.
2. potassium sometimes blocks from letting the
blood out from the heart by accident.
3. if you have to much pure Potassium, you
might get a heart failure.
4. bananas are full of Potassium, but if we eat to
much we might loose a body part. (crippled)

6. SOURCES
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?dbid=90&tname=nut
rient
http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/foodnut/09355.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium
www.umm.edu › Medical Reference › Complementary
Medicine
lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/minerals/potassium/
www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/foodnut/09355.html