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Do you take enough Potassium in your daily diet? – Good advice by Dr Harold Your mind goes always to find whether there is too much of cholesterol in the food you eat, but you never think whether you are taking enough potassium in your food. It is a mineral that is required adequately for metabolic processes and for the cells to work normally to keep you healthy. It makes the cells make electricity to function efficiently. You know it is that electricity produced in the cells that is used to check your workings of your heart efficiently through reading the wave lengths in an ‘electrocardiograph (ECG) tracing. Your nerves and muscles need sufficient potassium for them to function normally and efficiently. For a day an adult should take 4,700 milligrams of potassium. For children up to six months need 400 milligrams: kids up to one year needs 700 milligrams: ...