Eating Grapes Can Lower Your Blood Pressure

Tue, 27 Apr 2010
Eating grapes can lower your blood pressure, improve heart function and lower other risk factors related to heart disease and metabolic syndrome, so say the findings of a new study.

Grapes have this effect due to the phytochemicals, or natural antioxidants, in them.

The research highlights encouraging results of a grape enhanced diet combating risk factors for metabolic syndrome.

The research was conducted on rats and overall the researchers state that the study demonstrates that a grape-rich diet can have general positive effects on the development of heart disease and metabolic syndrome and related risk factors.

This study suggests that it could be possible for grape consumption to change the downhill sequence that leads to heart disease by elongating the time between when symptoms start and the time of diagnosis.

Lowering such risk factors can delay the onset of diabetes or heart disease, or reduce the severity of the diseases.

It can reduce the health burden of such increasingly common conditions.

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