At fast food restaurants, the fries are often considered to be one of the most unhealthy menu for the heart and blood vessels. However, if cooked properly, potatoes and other tubers can actually prevent high blood pressure.
Root vegetables, especially potatoes and sweet potatoes contain a lot of so-called cholinergic acid compounds. For the heart, these compounds can prevent the increase in blood pressure is one risk factor for stroke and heart attack.
In a study at the University of Scranton, potatoes and tubers shown to prevent hypertension in 18 patients with overweight or overweight. As you well know, someone who is overweight is more at risk of developing high blood pressure.
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The study, led by Joe Vinson PhD is done by changing the diet of the participants of rice or bread into tubers. During the whole month, the participants ate the bulbs as much as two times a day with the portion that has been set.
Having observed the changes, the participants' blood pressure dropped an average 3.5 to 4.3 percent. Compared with participants in the control group were still eat rice and bread, participants who regularly consumed tubers have a healthier heart.
"These preliminary results show tubers in particular colored red putin and can lower blood pressure. Keep peneltiian further for sure," said Prof Vinson was quoted as saying Menshealth.com.
In addition, if cooked properly, the potato tubers have a lower glycemic index than rice. Lower glycemic index indicates they make the stomach feel full longer so it does not make me fat.
One of the tubers are sometimes jard unhealthy because one is a cook potatoes. According to Prof Vinson, potato will be more healthy if cooked without butter, oil, and of course salt because salt can actually increase blood pressure.
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