Research Shows That Plant-Based Diets Lower Blood Pressure
From the Everyday Health website
If you want to make dietary changes to lower your blood pressure and protect your heart, researchers have pinpointed a simple hack with tremendous benefits: Add more plants to your diet, like vegetables and whole grains, and cut back a bit on meat and dairy.
That’s the takeaway from a comprehensive new review by researchers at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. While many studies have been published that have seen an association between a plant-based diet and better heart health, they’re mostly observational studies, so it is impossible to say if the diet caused better health outcomes.
But a new review, published July 23 in the Journal of Hypertension, looked only at clinical trials in which a test group was given a particular plant-based diet and a control group was given a more standard diet.
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