{"id":4818,"date":"2012-03-04T07:41:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T12:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=4818"},"modified":"2012-03-04T07:41:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T12:41:17","slug":"black-tea-combats-hypertension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2012\/03\/04\/black-tea-combats-hypertension\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Tea Combats Hypertension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/black-tea-high-blood-pressure-255x300.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"black-tea-high-blood-pressure\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/black-tea-high-blood-pressure-255x300.png 255w, https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/black-tea-high-blood-pressure-872x1024.png 872w, https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/black-tea-high-blood-pressure.png 879w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/>We recently wrote about a study regarding black tea combating type 2 diabetes. A new Archives of Internal Medicine study has found that drinking 3-cups of black tea per day is also effective at lowering blood pressure in adults with hypertension. <\/p>\n<p>In this study, a group of adults were asked to either drink black tea or avoid tea over a 6-month period.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the 6-months, the blood pressure in the tea group dropped by 5 points on average. The scientists note that black tea\u2019s concentration of a unique form of antioxidant known as polyphenols was responsible for its ability to significantly lower blood pressure. <\/p>\n<p>A step-by-step plan to <a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/bloodpressure\">fight back against high blood pressure&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently wrote about a study regarding black tea combating type 2 diabetes. A new Archives of Internal Medicine study has found that drinking 3-cups of black tea per day is also effective at lowering blood pressure in adults with hypertension. In this study, a group of adults were asked to either drink black tea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4819,"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-4818","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\/2012\/03\/black-tea-high-blood-pressure.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}