Is it true that if you ate more than 8 bannanas in one day you could die due to the amount of pottassiumin your body?

Question: Is it true that if you ate more than 8 bannanas in one day you could die due to the amount of pottassiumin your body? Please explain your answer.
- Keywords:
  chemistry,
  element,
  potassium
Asked by tezzag to Charlotte, Dhvanil, Frank, Jim, Leila on 13 Mar 2013. This question was also asked by jdoogan.
- Jim O Doherty answered on 13 Mar 2013:
  
  Nope- thats definitely not true. An average banana gives you 350 mg of potassium, and your RDA is around 4000-4500 mg, so you get roughly 8% of your RDA of potassium from one banana. Even if you had 24 bananas, the potassium from the first few would be gone from your bloodstream.
- Dhvanil Karia answered on 14 Mar 2013:
  
  A friend of mine had 5 bananas yesterday and he feels fine………Anyways if you ate 8 bananas in a go you will certainly be feel ill and have loose motions (diarrheoa) next day……
  
  As for the potassium if you eat 8 bananas everyday and keep up the habit for a very very long time yes you can be in trouble

Question: Is it true that if you ate more than 8 bannanas in one day you could die due to the amount of pottassiumin your body? Please explain your answer.