Who: Nearly 67 million American adults suffer from high blood pressure…
When: At this very moment…
What: 5 foods that can naturally fend off high blood pressure…
Where: The United States of America…
Why: It’s linked to stroke and heart disease, and the medications normally prescribed for High Blood Pressure are often costly and full of nasty side effects…
1. Garlic
Garlic contains allicin…
A wonderful substance that’s pure awesomeness when it comes to reducing your blood pressure.
Why though?
The reason it works so well is because it actually relaxes the blood vessels a great deal…
Not only that but it disrupts angiotensin, a troublesome enzyme that elevates blood pressure. Even the mighty Mayo Clinic encourages the usage of garlic supplements for people who have high blood pressure.
2. Flax Seeds
Yet another superstar when it comes to lowering blood pressure, flax seeds are also recommended by the Mayo Clinic for treating high blood pressure…
It has been found that consuming around 3 tablespoons of flax seeds each day for six months actually ends up lowering people’s blood pressure an average 10 percent.
Not eating it though, saw that blood pressure either stayed the same, and in some cases, actually went up.
3. Beets
Here’s another intriguing study, those who drank eight ounces of beet juice, in fact had lower blood by an average of 10 points for an entire 24 hours after.
The reason?
Beets actually widen the blood vessels, boosting the blood flow, and lowering blood pressure.
4. Walnuts
Walnuts can also lower blood pressure.
People who eat a half cup of walnuts consistently actually were found to have lower blood pressure, improved blood flow, and in some cases, even lost some weight…
All the magnesium, fiber and healthy fats in walnuts help them do this.
5. Cutting out the meat, or at least not eating as much of it…
Vegetarians have lower blood pressure than meat eaters a large amount of the time, it is believed that this is caused by the lack of meat consumption in a vegetarian diet.
The reason that meat is thought to heighten blood pressure, is not only because of some of the harmful substances found naturally in meat, but also because of all the extremely ‘questionable’ farming practices when it comes to feeding and taking care of the animals that the meat is coming from, because of these practices, most meat now contains trace amounts of things like hormones, pesticides, and other nasty substances that you neither want to eat, nor should you…
