Eating low-fat dairy products can lower blood pressure
A new study (read the abstract) published in the July issue of the American Heart Asoociation’s Hypertension magazine shows that eating low-fat dairy products including milk, yogurt and cheese can lower blood pressure (especially the systolic or “top” number).
Systolic blood pressure is the top number of a blood pressure reading; it measures blood pressure in the arteries as the heart beats and is considered a good predictor of heart disease risk, says researcher Luc Djosse,MD, of Harvard Medical School in Boston in a new release. The higher the number, the higher the risk.
And when the researchers took into account other high blood pressure factors including age, body mass index, diabetes, and heart disease, they found a 36% lower chance of high blood pressure in people who ate the most dairy.
-Via WebMD
The study is based on food questionaires and regular testing of 4,797 participants in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s Family Heart Study. While it wasn’t proved that it was the calcium that did the trick, researchers say it could have been the potassium and magnesium or simply because those who ate more dairy did not the space in their stomachs for the more fattening hamburgers and kentucky fried chicken buckets!
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