{"id":16222,"date":"2017-06-11T13:30:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T17:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=16222"},"modified":"2017-06-10T01:11:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T05:11:58","slug":"most-powerful-vegetable-to-lower-blood-pressure-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2017\/06\/11\/most-powerful-vegetable-to-lower-blood-pressure-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Powerful Vegetable to Lower Blood Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Broccoli_23452758_s-2015.jpg\" alt=\"Most Powerful Vegetable to Lower Blood Pressure\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9399\" \/>There is a good reason why this particular vegetable is hailed as a wonder food.<\/p>\n<p>A recent study published in American Journal of Hypertension proves that consuming this ONE vegetable can lower your blood pressure as much as 15 points.<\/p>\n<p>And the best part: it\u2019s dirt cheap and you can find it in every supermarket.<\/p>\n<p>In the study conducted at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, hypertensive rats were given a compound derived from Broccoli.<\/p>\n<p>On the average, the rat\u2019s blood pressure lowered 11%.<\/p>\n<p>If broccoli works anything similar with humans, we could be looking at 10-15 point drop in blood pressure by consuming broccoli or the compounds found in broccoli.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So how does this work?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The compound found in broccoli called glucosinolate produces a metabolite product called sulforaphane that has long been known to improve blood pressure and kidney functioning.<\/p>\n<p>Even though this compound is found in all cruciferous vegetables, broccoli has the highest concentration.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/health\/?page_id=472\">If you however want to learn even more powerful method to lower your blood pressure, check out these 3 easy exercises proven to drop your blood pressure below 120\/80 \u2013 as soon as today\u2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a good reason why this particular vegetable is hailed as a wonder food. A recent study published in American Journal of Hypertension proves that consuming this ONE vegetable can lower your blood pressure as much as 15 points. And the best part: it\u2019s dirt cheap and you can find it in every supermarket. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":16267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-high-blood-pressure"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Broccoli_23452758_s-2015.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}