Beetroot Juice Puts the “Beet”down on High Blood Pressure

Researchers at Barts and The London School of Medicine have revealed that drinking 16oz. of beetroot juice per day can significantly reduce blood pressure. It was shown that the nitrate, not the antioxidants, in the beetroot juice caused the decrease in blood pressure.

I don’t have a blood pressure problem; however, if I did, I don’t think I would be able to stomach beetroot juice. Fortunately, nitrate can also be found in green leafy, vegetables.

Chocolate Shown to Lower Cholesterol

Obesity Rates Disturbingly High

Heart Disease Begins At Childhood

---

Did you enjoy this post? Why not leave a comment below and continue the conversation, or subscribe to my feed and get articles like this delivered automatically each day to your feed reader.

Tags: antioxidants, nitrate, vegetables
Topics: diet, health, research

No comments yet.

Leave a comment

Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Name (required)

E-mail (required)

URI

Your Comment

Enable CommentLuv which will try and get your last blog post, please be patient while it finds it for you

Notify me of followup comments via e-mail