Celery and blood pressure

Celery is an excellent source of antioxidant nutrients such as vitamin C, beta-carotene and manganese. Celery contains calcium blockers and other plant chemicals that help prevent and treat arrhythmias and other compounds that help lower blood pressure and cholesterol.

Celery is high in apigenin, a chemical that expands the blood vessels and may help prevent high blood pressure. Celery is a traditional Asian folk remedy for high blood pressure.

In 1992, Minh Le, the father of a University of Chicago medical student was diagnosed with high blood pressure. His doctor prescribed standard antihypertensive medication.

Celery leaves

In the book The New Healing Herbs, Le ignored his doctor’s advice and began eating a ¼ pound of celery a day. Before long, his blood pressure dropped from 158/96 to 118/82.

Researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center have found that very small amounts of a compound in celery, 3-n-butyl phthalide, can lower blood pressure in animals by 12-14 percent and cholesterol by about 7 percent.

It’s known in scientific circles that phthalide relaxes the muscles and arteries that regulate blood pressure.
Celery and blood pressure

Vegetable and Blood Pressure

Vegetable and Blood Pressure
Vegetables are plant foods that include various edible parts such as leaves, shoots, roots, tubers, flowers, and stems. They normally do not include fruit. However tomatoes and olives which are technically fruit are included, because their culinary role is related more to vegetables than the fruits. Vegetables belong to an important class of foods that supply us with many nutritive requirements, including nutrients, starches, fats, minerals, sugars, and vitamins. Vegetables also supply bulk to the diet, as well as a large variety of flavors and odors that provide the knowledgeable chef with repertoire of culinary tricks.

There are news that vegetable protein could prevent hypertension and the related disease. There are a number of common vegetables and spices have beneficial effects in controlling hypertension. Among them:
Tomato
Broccoli
Carrot
Saffron
The results were consistent with the recommendations that a diet high in vegetable products be part of a healthy lifestyle for prevention of high blood pressure and related diseases. Previous research also showed that blood pressure was better controlled with a vegetable diet. Vegetable contain less salt and more antioxidant vitamins, are low in calories, high in fiber and also help to control diabetes.
Vegetable and Blood Pressure