{"id":3430,"date":"2011-10-19T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=3430"},"modified":"2011-10-30T12:20:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T16:20:51","slug":"what-to-do-about-high-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/10\/19\/what-to-do-about-high-blood-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do about high blood pressure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/10\/19\/what-to-do-about-high-blood-pressure\/purplepotatoes\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3322\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3322\" title=\"purplepotatoes\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/purplepotatoes-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/purplepotatoes-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/purplepotatoes-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Including a special breed of purple potatoes in your diet is an effective way to naturally turn down the dial on blood pressure, according to a new study presented at the National Meeting &amp; Exposition of the American Chemical Society.<\/p>\n<p>In this study, a group of 18 obese adults with high blood pressure were asked to eat approximately 6 golf ball-sized purple potatoes \u2013with skin\u2014 daily. At the end of the study it was found that the potatoes reduced blood pressure by an average of approximately 4 points. The study authors note that the high levels of potassium found in potatoes are likely responsible for its ability to reduce blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/bloodpressure\">Even more effective method to lower blood pressure&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Warm regards,<\/p>\n<p>Christian Goodman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Including a special breed of purple potatoes in your diet is an effective way to naturally turn down the dial on blood pressure, according to a new study presented at the National Meeting &amp; Exposition of the American Chemical Society. In this study, a group of 18 obese adults with high blood pressure were asked [&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-3430","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\/3430","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=3430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}