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5 life-saving banana benefits (slideshow)
Will a banana a day keep heart disease away? Let me count the ways…
Bananas are high in potassium, a mineral that plays a pivotal role in maintaining a healthy heart. Without enough of this mineral, your heart and arteries simply cannot function the way they’re supposed to.
Why? Because your heart is a muscle, and potassium helps trigger that muscle to contract and pump blood through your body. Potassium enables your heart to maintain a healthy rhythm and diastolic blood pressure (the pressure your heart exerts to pump blood through the arteries).
Potassium is also a vasodilator, relaxing blood vessels throughout the body, letting blood flow freely, with less chance of clotting and causing blockages that lead to stroke.
And very recently, some shocking research has shown that without sufficient potassium, your arteries may actually turn to bone…
