Drinking milk may ease hypertension

This seems to be a good news to the majority of the populace who are suffering from or has a family history of hypertension. A new study was published in the American Heart Association Journal, Hypertension, that says that women who drank more fat free milk and had higher intakes of Calcium and Vitamin D from foods (not from supplements) tend to have a lower risk of developing hypertension, commonly knows as high blood pressure.

Harvard researchers examined the diets of nearly 30,000 middle-aged and older women and found out that women who consumed more low-fat milk and milk products and had diets higher in Calcium and Vitamin D from foods were better protected against hypertension. When the researchers investigated the benefits of milk specifically, they found women who drank two or more servings of fat free milk each day reduced their risk for high blood pressure by up to10 percent compared to those who drank fat free milk less than once a month. The same was not found for higher fat milk and milk products or calcium and vitamin D supplement users.

"One in three American adults has high blood pressure, and an increasing number of women are living with undiagnosed hypertension, according to a second study published in the journal Circulation. The last decade has seen significant increases in uncontrolled high blood pressure for women across the nation, a condition that puts them at serious risk for cardiovascular disease, stroke and even kidney failure."

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Source: Medical News Today

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