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Hana Berger's avatar

In our house tomatoes are on everyday menu! This summer I make plenty jars with farm fresh tomatoes and peppers for winter. Hungarian Lečo is delicious recipe, very often for our summer breakfast with farm pastured eggs!😋

Thank you dr.B for knowledge powerful informations.

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devaki berkson's avatar

Love this. Sounds delish!

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Hana Berger's avatar

Yes it is delish.

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Awaken The Lions In Truth's avatar

I have for decades been lectured like a little boy that if I didn't take these dangerous toxic prescriptions to control my hypertension - then I would essentially "die."

Hypertension is classified as iatrogenic , that is no one official medico has a clue what causes it (I say there are multiple causes)

Yet it's a long established fact that in this world of physics there is always a reason for a cause - and resultant effect.

Not once in years did any medical practitioner ever say to me " let's find the cause(s) and 'nip it in the bud' "

Instead they were very fast to prescribe anti hypertension chemicals which if I am not mistaken taking 1 puts a person at a 33% risk for stroke, taking 2 increases risk of stroke by 100+% and ingesting 3 simultaneously increases risk of stroke by 200+ %.

No thanks no strokes for me!

I'm still.around after 20 + years largely of no chemical prescriptions and no ill effects.

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Mary's avatar

Are there any studies about what foods raise low blood pressure? Besides just eating salt all day?

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devaki berkson's avatar

Food Groups and Risk of Hypertension: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis of Prospective Studies

Lukas Schwingshackl et al. Adv Nutr. 2017.

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Erratum: Food groups and risk of hypertension: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies.

[No authors listed] Adv Nutr. 2018. PMID: 29659686 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

Abstract

The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to summarize the evidence on the relation of the intakes of 12 major food groups, including whole grains, refined grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts, legumes, eggs, dairy, fish, red meat, processed meat, and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) with the risk of hypertension. PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science were searched systematically until June 2017 for prospective studies having quantitatively investigated the above-mentioned foods.

We conducted meta-analysis on the highest compared with the lowest intake categories and linear and nonlinear dose-response meta-analyses to analyze the association.

Summary RRs and 95% CIs were estimated by using a random-effects model.

Overall, 28 reports were included in the meta-analysis. An inverse association for the risk of hypertension was observed for 30 g whole grains/d (RR: 0.92; 95% CI: 0.87, 0.98), 100 g fruits/d (RR: 0.97; 95% CI: 0.96, 0.99), 28 g nuts/d (RR: 0.70; 95% CI: 0.45, 1.08), and 200 g dairy/d (RR: 0.95; 95% CI: 0.94, 0.97), whereas a positive association for 100 g red meat/d (RR: 1.14; 95% CI: 1.02, 1.28), 50 g processed meat/d (RR: 1.12; 95% CI: 1.00, 1.26), and 250 mL SSB/d (RR: 1.07; 95% CI: 1.04, 1.10) was seen in the linear dose-response meta-analysis. Indication for nonlinear relations of the intakes of whole grains, fruits, fish, and processed meats with the risk of hypertension was detected. In summary, this comprehensive dose-response meta-analysis of 28 reports identified optimal intakes of whole grains, fruits, nuts, legumes, dairy, red and processed meats, and SSBs related to the risk of hypertension. These findings need to be seen under the light of very-low to low quality of meta-evidence. However, the findings support the current dietary guidelines in the prevention of hypertension.

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Mary's avatar

And yes I do eat red meat a few times a week.

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