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Default "Accent" (msg) and the elderly

On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:52:35 -0700 in rec.food.cooking, David Harmon
> wrote,
>On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:30:12 -0600 in rec.food.cooking, Omelet
> wrote,
>>'frige and his favorite, steamed baby carrot. He also likes bananas so
>>I try to keep them available even tho' he may eat 3 or 4 of those per
>>day and I worry about too much potassium.

>
>Unless he is on potassium-sparing diuretics or something like that, not
>to worry. It's several times that many bananas to get what the USDA
>lists as an adequate daily intake of potassium.


P.S.
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/DRI//DRI_Water/186-268.pdf