One of the best ways to prevent heart attacks and strokes is to keep your blood pressure in check. If your doctor says your numbers and creeping up, one or more of these clever new strategies could correct the problem - fast!
Relax Arteries With Hot Peppers
Biting into a hot pepper - like a jalapeno, habanero, serrano, or fresno - can open your arteries! So say Asian researchers who discovered that eating 2 tsp of spicy peppers daily switches on genes that keep blood vessels relaxed and open, so pressure surges don't occur.
Reduce Inflammation With Aloe
Simply drinking a daily 2-oz glass of aloe vera juice (sold in health food stores) can lower blood pressure for 9 out of 10 people within two weeks, British researchers report. Aloe is packed with compounds that control inflammation, a major high blood pressure trigger, explains Mark Stengler, N.D. author of The Natural Physician's Healing Therapies.
TIP: Mix Aloe with a little grape or orange juice to jazz up the flavor.
Flush Out Trapped Fluids With Onions
Eating 1/3 cup of onions daily (any kind, cooked or raw) can cut blood pressure as much as 21% in five weeks, a recent Spanish study reveals. Onions are rich in quercetin, a natural diuretic that lowers pressure by speeding excess fluids and salt out of your body.
Don't like onions? Taking a 1,000-mg quercetin supplement daily can lower your blood pressure seven points in one month.
Steady Your Pressure With Milk
Milk's calcium and whey work as a team to relax your nervous system, preventing pressure spikes during high-stress times. And University of Tennessee research shows it only takes two 8-oz glasses daily (whole, low-fat or non-fat) to lower your blood pressure in eight weeks.
Source: "Woman's World" July 9, 2012
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