A popular drink can significantly lower high blood pressure
High blood pressure can increase the risk of life-threatening emergencies such as heart attacks and strokes, and while this silent state can have frightening results, your diet is able to control your levels if you stick to it in combination with your prescription medications. Experts suggest that orange juice can significantly lower high blood pressure levels in just weeks.
The newspaper "Express" quoted nutrition expert Mark Gilbert as saying that the best way to lower blood pressure is to exercise regularly and lose weight, but there are many things in the diet that can help with this as well, and one of the foods that has been specifically studied for weight loss is orange juice. Specifically, the flavonoid in orange juice, called hesperidin, is also rich in potassium, which is known to lower blood pressure.
A research paper published in the journal ARYA Atherosclerosis found that orange juice was able to lower both diastolic and systolic hypertension in volunteers who were monitored for four weeks.
Other than medication and proper nutrition, other interventions that can help lower your blood pressure reading include exercise, a healthy weight, and salt reduction.
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