7 Foods to Lower Your Blood Pressure
7 Foods to Lower Your Blood Pressure
High blood pressure affects many of us, but eating the right foods can help to lower your numbers. EatingWell’s nutrition expert shares top blood-pressure-lowering foods and offers suggestions for how to eat more of them.
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4.92 -> About one in three American adults have high
blood pressure.
7.67 -> And, unfortunately, there's no magic- bullet
food that can lower it.
11.2 -> However, certain foods can help.
13.72 -> Start with walnuts.
15.41 -> Eating a half cup of walnuts daily has been
shown to help lower blood pressure, improve
19.43 -> blood flow and even shrink your waist.
22.5 -> Walnuts contain healthy fats, magnesium and
fiber, which may be why they're good for blood
26.98 -> pressure.
28.16 -> Second, beets and beet juice are rich in nitrates,
which can help widen your blood vessels and
33.62 -> improve blood pressure.
35.12 -> In one study, drinking just eight ounces of
beet juice lowered participants' blood pressure
39.83 -> for 24 hours, so drink up.
43.21 -> Flaxseed is a third good choice.
45.15 -> People with hypertension who ate just three
tablespoons of flaxseed daily for six months
49.53 -> lowered their blood pressure by an average
of 10 percent.
52.88 -> Not sure how to eat flaxseed?
54.62 -> Grind it up and add it to yogurt or a smoothie.
58.03 -> Fourth, try gazpacho.
60.44 -> Scientists looked at the diets of nearly 4,
000 people and found that those who regularly
64.559 -> ate gazpacho had healthier blood pressure.
66.76 -> The tomato- based cold soup is loaded with
carotenes, vitamin C and polyphenols, which
73.109 -> researchers think may help lower blood pressure.
75.96 -> Finally, don't forget about potassium- rich
foods like bananas, salmon and plain yogurt.
82.33 -> Potassium relaxes the walls of blood vessels,
and helps counteract the effect of sodium,
86.469 -> which raises blood pressure.
88.52 -> All these foods not only help your blood pressure,
but they're good for your body in other ways
92.06 -> too .
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