{"id":7080,"date":"2013-02-13T01:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=7080"},"modified":"2013-02-08T04:28:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T09:28:07","slug":"yummy-treat-lowers-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2013\/02\/13\/yummy-treat-lowers-blood-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Yummy Treat Lowers Blood Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/yogurt_high_blood_pressure.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"yogurt_high_blood_pressure\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7082\" \/>A study that followed more than 2,000 people for over a decade illustrates how eating a specific kind of treat can actually lower your blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p>And, this particular food is recommended to be included in many diets- even some of the most restrictive.<\/p>\n<p>More data from the Framingham Heart Study is being looked at regarding food choices and their possible effects on blood pressure health.<\/p>\n<p>Of the more than 2,000 participants who were followed for more than 10 years, the ones who ate at least a half a cup of yogurt every other day were more than 30% less likely than their peers to develop high blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Yogurt\u2019s nutritive benefits go beyond being full of calcium and helping digestion.  Most yogurt is packed with potassium and magnesium, two critical minerals in maintaining optimum circulatory health.<\/p>\n<p>Yogurt not enough to lower your blood pressure?  <a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/01\/16\/blood-pressure-program\/\">Check out these 3 easy exercises, proven to drop blood pressure below 120\/80 as soon as today\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study that followed more than 2,000 people for over a decade illustrates how eating a specific kind of treat can actually lower your blood pressure. And, this particular food is recommended to be included in many diets- even some of the most restrictive. More data from the Framingham Heart Study is being looked at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7082,"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-7080","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\/2013\/02\/yogurt_high_blood_pressure.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080","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=7080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}