Drinking hibiscus tea lowers blood pressure, study shows

Drinking herbal tea has always been good for you, and now the American Heart Association is saying so, according to the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) website.

Drinking hibiscus tea lowered blood pressure in a group of pre-hypertensive and mildly hypertensive adults, according to a report recently presented by nutrition scientist Diane McKay at the American Heart Association's annual conference in New Orleans, La. Hypertension is a condition in which blood pressure is chronically high, and it affects one-third of all U.S. adults.

Those who drank hibiscus tea had a 7.2 point drop in their systolic blood pressure, compared to a 1.3 point drop in the volunteers who drank the placebo beverage.

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An apple a day really can keep the doctor away

Apples have over 300 naturally occurring compounds in them, including polyphenols that can "mop up" free radicals. Free radicals are molecular fragments produced when we breathe oxygen that can lead to cell damage, including heart disease and cancer.

Dampen those free radicals with antioxidants... vitamins and polyphenols found in abundance in apples.

Even one apple a day provides enough antioxidants to reduce tumor development, a recent study at Cornell University discovered.

An apple a day apparently really can keep the doctor away!

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