Potatoes are the favorite vegetables of many people. Although they have a reputation of being unhealthy reality says just the opposite. Some of these vegetables per day lowers blood pressure the obese or overweight, which often suffer from a very dangerous condition: hypertension.
These original findings came a group of researchers led by Dr. Joe Vinson, the principal author of the paper that spread this original study from the University of Scranton, in United States.
Vinson clarified that its dietary research used potatoes cooked in the microwave without using oil or fat. I.e. that potato chips or those developed with other elements such as butter or margarine are still being considered “little” healthy
What is high blood pressure
Blood pressure is the force that exerts the blood against the walls of blood vessels to be pumped by the heart. To calculate this index takes two values: the systolic pressure is measured when the heart pushes blood through the body and the diastolic taken when the heart relaxes.
The usual measures are 120/80, so higher than these values suggest the presence of a condition called “hypertension”. This condition raises directly the risk that the person suffered multiple serious pathologies associated with the circulatory system, as accidents stroke, heart problems and even kidney failure.
Pope for the arteries
Vinson worked with volunteers, suffering from overweight, or directly, obesity and had high blood pressure. During one month half the Group ate potatoes cooked in a healthy manner in the lunch and dinner while the rest not enjoyed at any time in this food. In the following month, the roles were invested so that all the volunteers ate potatoes for a month.
Contrary to what many “Dietitians” had been expected, the regular intake of potatoes not triggered change in body weight or fat and blood glucose level. On the contrary, the result of eating this delicious food was very good as decreased blood pressure of the participants.
Diastolic pressure fell 4.3% while the systolic fell 3.5%. That is why the authors concluded that potatoes are an effective agent to decrease blood pressure and that could be cooked under certain conditions could be a “healthy” food.
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