Monday 14 September 2015

Potassium & Bananas

Last week, in year 11 Chemistry class we saw how incredibly reactive potassium is when we dropped a tiny piece of this metal in water. Did you know that our bodies require a certain level of potassium to keep our blood pressure on point, to control our sugar levels, to keep our heart rate steady and to ensure proper cell function? If about two thirds of our bodies are water and potassium is such a reactive metal, how much potassium is safe to consume? In other words, how many bananas are we allowed to eat in a day?
Read on…

Can eating more than six bananas at once kill you? 

- BBC report

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34225517


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  1. Unknown2 October 2015 at 06:45

    wow miss, i never knew about that. you should post a video from youtube. its about puting different types of mental in an anthill. check it out.

    - PRIONTI 8S

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  2. Unknown2 October 2015 at 06:46

    wow miss, i never knew about that. you should post a video from youtube. its about puting different types of mental in an anthill. check it out.

    - PRIONTI 8S

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    1. Miss Krunic2 October 2015 at 09:48

      Ok I will check it out! Please send me the URL for the video.

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