Bananas combat hunger and leave us satisfied and feeling full, It’s the combination of fiber an fructose that gives bananas their superfood status.
Mild hypertension can be treated without medication. The treatment of hypertension include weight reduction, exercise, a diet containing foods high in potassium and magnesium and avoidance of alcohol, salty foods and cigarettes.
Potassium may help top help vasodilate vasodilatation or open arteries, thereby lowering blood pressure.
Bananas are now believed to be able to help lower blood pressure.
Research has shown that just eating two bananas a day can reduce blood pressure by 10%. This is because the banana is one of the best natural sources of potassium a mineral that plays a very important role in keeping blood pressure at healthy levels.
One medium size banana contain 10 to 13 percent of daily requirement of potassium. Bananas are sodium free and they have no fat or cholesterol.
Because bananas can reduce blood pressure also easy to digest, it is a good for many elderly people.
The United States Food and Drug Administration has given permission to banana producers to claim that eating bananas can reduce the risk of developing high blood pressure and strokes.
Banana and hypertension
