{"id":2950,"date":"2011-07-22T08:24:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T12:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=2950"},"modified":"2011-10-30T13:32:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T17:32:03","slug":"natural-treatment-high-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/07\/22\/natural-treatment-high-blood-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Natural Treatment High Blood Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/06\/17\/headaches-and-insomnia-the-vitamin-c-relationship\/1552-revision-6\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1806\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1806\" title=\"cocoa\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/blog\/home\/blueher1\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/cocoa-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Those with hypertension who like to curl up on a winter evening with a hot mug of cocoa may be doing their blood pressure a huge favor, according to a research review published in the \u201cJournal of Clinical Biochemistry and Nutrition.\u201d In the study, researchers weighed in on the growing research linking cocoa consumption and reduced blood pressure and \u201cbad\u201d LDL cholesterol levels.<\/p>\n<p>They note that cocoa is unusually high in a special class of antioxidants known as flavanols. The paper author\u2019s note that the flavanols found in cocoa are effective for reducing blood pressure by 5 percent or more. Cocoa flavanols also improve the health of arteries \u2013reducing the risk of dangerous plaque formation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/bloodpressure\/\">More ways to lower your blood pressure&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All the Best,<\/p>\n<p>Christian Goodman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those with hypertension who like to curl up on a winter evening with a hot mug of cocoa may be doing their blood pressure a huge favor, according to a research review published in the \u201cJournal of Clinical Biochemistry and Nutrition.\u201d In the study, researchers weighed in on the growing research linking cocoa consumption and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"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-2950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-high-blood-pressure"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950","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=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}