Two bananas a day can help control high blood pressure, offering a cheap alternative to expensive drugs, according to scientists.
The finding supports earlier research that potassium-rich food such as bananas could play a role in controlling blood pressure.
A 1997 study suggested people would have to eat five bananas a day to have half the effect of a blood pressure-controlling pill.
Now researchers in India have reported that blood pressure fell by 10% in people who ate two bananas daily for a week.
I guess my point here is that by eating naturally and healthily you can make a huge difference to your health. Adding more chemicals to your body in the form of drugs (always check with your GP if you are unwell and if you are trying to reduce your drug intake) is adding stress onto your system. Stress causes many problems including high blood pressure.
It is very easy to sit in a doctors surgery and accept the piece of paper with a prescription on it and not consider the alternatives. Sometimes we need to be really honest with ourselves. We can take pills and continue with our terrible diet and just resign ourselves to this fact, or we can take control, change the way we live and choose to live! Lynn xx http://www.nicholsons.synthasite.com
