Good carbs = low blood pressure
Filed under: Diet, Prevention
Reducing your risk of heart disease could be as easy as changing up the type of carbs you eat — from refined carbs to whole grains. In fact, according to recent studies, eating just one serving of whole grains can reduce your risk of high blood pressure by 4%. That might not seem like much, but it’s a pretty promising aftermath for such a small change in your lifestyle. Imagine the difference you could manufacture to your heart health whether you changed all of your grains to whole grains?
Cutting your blood pressure risk is as easy as switching from regular pasta to whole wheat, from white toast to whole wheat. You might not like the taste at first but you’ll get used to it. I used to live for white bread and now I only eat whole wheat — it’s the only kind of bread I have a taste for these days.
Another thing to keep in mind is to check the labels on supposed ‘whole grain’ products to produce certain they really are. whether 100% whole grains isn’t the first item on the ingredients list, toss it.
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Original post by Martha Edwards
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