Five potassium-rich foods that could lower blood pressure in 'weeks' – expert

While everyone should meet their daily target of 3,500 mg of potassium a day, the expert shared many don’t get enough.

“Most of us are guilty of not always getting the right nutrients from our diets as many of us find it hard to eat the recommended five fruit and vegetables a day,” she noted.

Furthermore, research and data from a recent HSIS report – Diet Disasters For The Seven Ages Of Women: How Nutritional Gaps Are Putting Women’s Health Under Threat Across The Lifecycle – further backs this claim.

The research found that 24 percent of women between the ages of 19 and 64 years score below the Lower Reference Nutrient Intake (“the level below which deficiency could occur”).