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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Dare one say that the beverage of choice, say of those who think it is the 
elixir of the gods, is a diuretic??? <g>  Perhaps one needs to switch to 
Mimosas <g>

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bob ford" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>


> If you take any type of diuretic, it is almost  certainly potassium 
> deficiency.  Even if you don't, that's still probably the case.  If it 
> starts happening often, you need to see a doc or a nurse practitioner 
> ( potassium also affects the electrical impulses that run the powerplant 
> in your chest).  You have to be careful supplementing potassium on your 
> own.  Those side affects can be ...er...lethal.  You can get a 90 day 
> supply of generic potassium horse pills from walmart for $12 bucks, but 
> you need a scrip.
> If this not a regular problem, you probably just became dehydrated 
> yesterday--while you were outside , in the heat, sitting on the porch, 
> thinking about all of the work you are going to talk Don into doing.
>
> Yea, I read Tom Sawyer, too........bobford