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When you think of diets, you probably automatically think weight loss.<\/p>\nWhen you think of diets, you probably automatically think weight loss.<\/p>\n
But a recent study in the Journal of American Medical Association: Internal Medicine<\/em> involving 22,000 participants has found one diet, which requires only a few changes, to dramatically drop blood pressure.<\/p>\n By following this one simple diet, you\u2019ll not only drop your blood pressure to normal, you\u2019ll also reap a whole lot of other benefits\u2026and the good news \u2013 it\u2019s not a fad nor does it require any expensive or exotic ingredients.<\/p>\n A vegetarian diet that excludes meat but includes eggs and dairy products is considered to be very favorable for lowering blood pressure.<\/p>\n The research involved observational studies in which the volunteers were free to follow their own vegetarian diet plans. It also involved clinical trials in which the volunteers were given a vegetarian diet that they had not tried before.<\/p>\n It was found that in the observational studies, the volunteers, on an average, had a systolic pressure of 7 mm Hg and diastolic pressure of 5mm Hg lower than that of meat-eaters.<\/p>\n In the clinical trials the volunteers showed a systolic pressure of 5mm Hg and a diastolic pressure of 2mm Hg lower than participants in the control group who did not follow a vegetarian diet.<\/p>\n Therefore, it is obvious that the systolic pressure drops by 6 points on an average by adopting a vegetarian lifestyle<\/strong>.<\/p>\n You may think this is not so much. But did you know that this is the same result typically achieved with prescription medications\u2026but without any side effects?<\/p>\n A 6-point decrease in the blood pressure also means that you can cut down your risk of having a stroke by 14 percent and a heart attack by 7 percent. To give you a better idea, this reduction in blood pressure is similar to a weight reduction of 5 kg.<\/p>\n But vegetarian diet is not easy for everyone. Try these 3 simple exercises to drop your high blood pressure starting today\u2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n