Foods That Reduce High Blood Pressure
August 25, 2009 by Janet7
Protein is one of the foods that reduce high blood pressure. A diet with greater protein lowers blood pressure more than a diet high in carbohydrates.
Replacing Some Carbohydrates with Protein and Unsaturated Fat May Enhance Heart Health Benefits: The types of food eaten in an effort to cut down on saturated fat may make a difference in reducing heart disease risk, according to a study of people with either high blood pressure or prehypertension.
The study was supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), a part of the National Institutes of Health.
Investigators evaluated three diets that follow the principles of NHLBI’s DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) eating plan with some modifications. One diet emphasized carbohydrates, another diet emphasized protein, and the third emphasized monounsaturated fat.
They reported that while all three diets reduced high blood pressure, improved cholesterol levels, and reduced ten-year risk of heart disease by as much as 16 to 21 percent, two of these modified diets were even more effective in reducing some risk factors and estimated risk for heart disease than the diet richer in carbohydrates.
The Optimal Macronutrient Intake Trial to Prevent Heart Disease (OmniHeart) study will be presented today in Dallas at the American Heart Association annual conference, and also published in the November 15 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
These new OmniHeart study results do not represent new guidelines for healthy eating and the proportions of carbohydrate, protein, and fat for all three diets are all within the ranges recommended by the U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans and other national public health organizations. Earlier in 2005, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services incorporated NHLBI’s DASH eating plan as one option within the U.S. Dietary Guidelines.
All of the studied diets are a vast improvement over the typical American diet which can be high in saturated fat and low in essential nutrients, according to NHLBI Director Elizabeth G. Nabel, M.D. “This study builds on an established body of evidence that shows following a dietary pattern lower in saturated fat, such as the DASH eating plan, can go a long way toward improving overall heart health.
With these new data, we have been able to incorporate even more flexibility into the DASH eating plan by providing additional options for people seeking to improve their heart health through healthier eating,” said Nabel. The study results reinforce the health benefits of following a DASH-type eating plan and suggests that tweaking certain components within that plan—protein and unsaturated fat—may yield benefits for specific risk factors.
Compared with the study diet containing more carbohydrates, the diet with greater protein:
• lowered blood pressure, LDL “bad” cholesterol, and triglycerides, and
• lowered HDL “good” cholesterol. The diet with more unsaturated fat, primarily monounsaturated fat:
• lowered blood pressure and triglycerides,
• raised HDL, and
• did not lower LDL.
By providing all daily meals to 164 men and women for 41 days for each diet, researchers evaluated the three diets to determine whether replacing calories from saturated fat with calories from protein or unsaturated fat was better than replacing those calories with carbohydrate. Saturated fat is known to raise blood cholesterol, and public health officials recommend that it make up less than 10 percent of daily calories for healthy individuals and less than 7 percent of daily calories for individuals with heart disease risk factors.
Participants were age 30 or older and had either high blood pressure or prehypertension at the time of enrollment. “These new findings open the door to further research on the diets’ long-term effects and the ability of people to follow these diets,” said Eva Obarzanek, Ph.D., NHLBI research nutritionist and study co-author.
The OmniHeart study diets differed from each other in several ways:
• The diet emphasizing carbohydrates contained 58 percent of calories from carbohydrates and 15 percent of calories from protein. In addition, it contained 21 percent of calories from unsaturated fat. The other two diets reduced carbohydrate to 48 percent of calories.
• The diet emphasizing protein increased the protein to 25 percent of calories. To increase protein, mostly plant sources, such as beans and nuts, were used, although poultry, egg substitutes, and fat-free or low-fat milk products were also used. Like the carbohydrate diet, it contained 21 percent of calories from unsaturated fat.
• The diet emphasizing unsaturated fat used primarily fats and oils rich in monounsaturated fat, like olive oil, to increase unsaturated fat to 31 percent of calories.Like the carbohydrate diet, it contained 15 percent of calories from protein.
“Our results emphasize the impact that diet can have on blood pressure and cholesterol levels, two of the major heart disease risk factors,” said Lawrence Appel, M.D., M.P.H., of Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and lead investigator of the OmniHeart study. The OmniHeart study did not address other types of diets such as the Atkins or Mediterranean diet. The OmniHeart study was conducted at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
The first participants started the protocol in 2003, and the last participants ended the study in June 2005. NHLBI has long recommended changes in lifestyle, including following a heart healthy eating plan to reduce risk factors for heart disease. The DASH eating plan was developed through a series of clinical studies that showed that a dietary pattern rich in fruits, vegetables, fat-free or low-fat milk and milk products, and whole grains substantially reduced blood pressure and had other beneficial effects.
The eating plan also includes lean meats, poultry, fish, legumes, and nuts and is low in saturated fats, cholesterol, sodium, and sweets and added sugars. The new DASH Eating Plan menus are included in the book A Healthier You published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This newly released book is based on the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
Sources: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Natural Cures and Natural Remedies
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I have a really sharp pain in the right side of my chest. It started about 3 or 4 days ago and is getting worse. I feel really dizzy and and light headed alot… my blood pressure is in the 200′s and im only 22. im really worried and i dont have a family doctor. Can anyone describe what i might be feeling? i get random chest pains that usually last a few seconds. This pain isnt going away and hurts more when i bend a certain way or sit a certain way. Plz Anyone? Im really worried!
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Moe, nice book review. Sadly for proponents of nationalized healthcare it doesn't approach the truth very closely insofar as research funding is concerned.
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Now, if you want to only talk of “research project grants,” which ignores all the “for hire” work done in the private sector, you're beliefs are closer to accurate. Source
Now…You also bring Pharma's general behavior into the mix as part of your rebuttal. That's a whole different kettle of rotting fish…
The lifestyle study was funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, as you suspected.
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RULING – No violation is called providing neither the player's foot/feet nor the foot rests or anti-tip (safety) casters come in contact with the floor. ”
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Robin,
Thanks for commenting and sharing your knowledge on “hyperinsulinemia”. I need to add protein to my pre run breakfast and cut down on some of the cheap carbs such as sugar in my coffee. I’m going to be doing some experimenting. I have a couple of weeks prior to the Portland Marathon.
Last year I did oatmeal, blueberries, coffee, bananas and soy milk. I was trying to simplify the menu a bit this year since I will be traveling and doing a marathon a month until I reach my $10,000 goal for the American Heart Association.
Know that you are loved,
gaj
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Data from the National Center for Health Statistics show that death rates over the past 60 years — the number of deaths adjusted for the age and size of the population — plummeted for heart disease, stroke, and influenza and pneumonia. But for cancer, they barely budged.
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The cancer death rate, now about 200 deaths a year per 100,000 people of all ages and 1,000 deaths per 100,000 people over age 65 — is nearly the same now as it was in 1950, dropping only 5 percent. But the death rate from heart disease is only a third of what it was in 1950. Even though more people die of heart disease than from cancer, cancer deaths have been edging closer to heart disease deaths each year.
Are the statistics lying, hiding major advances because of the way the data are analyzed?
No, researchers say.
Death rates are not perfect — no measure is. But they are considered the purest measure. That is one reason groups like the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute use death rates rather than something else, like the number of people living with cancer, to assess progress in fighting the disease.
With heart disease, says Dr. Michael S. Lauer, director of the division of prevention and population sciences at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, there were transforming discoveries in prevention and treatment. They led to effective drugs to lower cholesterol and blood pressure, to the use of aspirin, and to smoking cessation programs, all of which reduced the number of heart attacks. And they led to treatments during and after a heart attack, like medical therapies, stents and bypass surgery, as well as powerful drugs to prevent and break down blood clots.
All these strategies contributed to the falling death rates. “Fifty years ago, these either didn’t exist or were in their infancy,” Dr. Lauer said
But with cancer, equivalent transforming advances have not emerged.
Could there be other explanations for the stagnant cancer death rates? Not really, researchers say.
For example, there is the competing cause-of-death hypothesis. In the past, you died of a heart attack. Now, spared that, many live long enough to die of cancer. Wouldn’t that mean cancer death rates look worse than they really are?
“No,” says Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, a cancer epidemiologist at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. He explains that the population of the United States is older than it was in 1950, but statisticians correct for that. They divide the population into discrete age groups, like 50 to 54, 55 to 59, and so on, and calculate death rates within each group.
So, suppose, for example, that in 1950, among 1,000 people aged 60 to 65, 10 died of cancer; that age group’s cancer mortality rate, then, would be 10 per 1,000. Now, suppose that in 2009, because fewer people die of heart disease, twice as many live to be 60 to 65. If there had been no progress in combating cancer, you would expect that, with twice as many people in that age group, twice as many would die of cancer.
And that is pretty much what has happened.
But cancer is diagnosed in more people these days. If nearly the same number are dying from cancer — adjusted for the age and size of the population — wouldn’t that mean that more are being cured, so the cancer death rate is lower?
Not really, says Donald A. Berry, head of the division of quantitative sciences at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Death rates reflect deaths from cancer, not diagnoses. People living with cancer are part of the general population.
The additional diagnoses mostly result from more screening, Dr. Berry adds. While finding some cancers earlier may save lives, many would never have caused problems if they had been left alone. Others are deadly whether they are treated or not. Since there usually is no good way to decide whether a cancer will be deadly, doctors usually treat all as if they are life-threatening.
A result is an increase in diagnoses and survivors but, if treatment does not improve for deadly cancers, little change in the death rate.
My husband just past away on Mon 5/25/09 at the age of 37. He had a massive stroke due to untreated high blood pressure. He had just recently been complaining of dizziness and we discussed the possibility of high blood pressure but life got in the way of attending to this leathal problem. I would like to ask if you could do a piece about the affects of high blood pressure as maybe it could help someone avoid the tradgedy my family is facing today.
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