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No Extracted Oil Should be Used at All
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Replace the use of oils and fats with water soluble oils only.
All kinds of nuts ... if you put them in a blender they mix with water.
But not the roasted, extracted oil, Margarine ... Butter ... Cheese ...
They do not mix with water ...
Eat only the Oil as it is in the nuts or in the seeds ...
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https://www.kindness2.com/most-harmful-in-food.html
https://www.kindness2.com/cooking-without-oil.html
https://www.kindness2.com/canola-oil--facts.html
https://www.kindness2.com/stop-heating-oil.html
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No Extracted Oil Should be Used at All
🌸
Replace the use of oils and fats with water soluble oils only.
All kinds of nuts ... if you put them in a blender they mix with water.
But not the roasted, extracted oil, Margarine ... Butter ... Cheese ...
They do not mix with water ...
Eat only the Oil as it is in the nuts or in the seeds ...
🌸
https://www.kindness2.com/most-harmful-in-food.html
https://www.kindness2.com/cooking-without-oil.html
https://www.kindness2.com/canola-oil--facts.html
https://www.kindness2.com/stop-heating-oil.html
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One of the worst foods
you can consume.
Another new study has shown
that vegetable oils are seriously bad news.
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One of the worst foods
you can consume.
Another new study has shown
that vegetable oils are seriously bad news.
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In recent years, consumption of trans-fats have been linked to:
- Inflammatory damage to the gut and microbiome, including leaky gut
- The transportation of toxins into the brain
- Damage to the arteries and blood vessels
- Immune system dysfunctions and nerve degeneration
- Damage to cell structure
- Damage to genetic material and increased rates of genetic mutation
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Vegetable Oils – Avoid At All Costs
Vegetable Oils – Avoid At All Costs
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VEGETABLE OIL:
ONE OF THE WORST THINGS
YOU COULD CONSUME
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By Conrad Scott
The Vegetable Oil Matrix
Why vegetable oil is so awful
How Vegetable Oil Rose to Popularity
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VEGETABLE OIL:
ONE OF THE WORST THINGS
YOU COULD CONSUME
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By Conrad Scott
The Vegetable Oil Matrix
Why vegetable oil is so awful
How Vegetable Oil Rose to Popularity
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Vegetable oils are among the worst things you could put in your body that passes as “foodstuffs.” But why are vegetable oils so prevalent in our society and why are they so bad for us?
Vegetable Oils – Avoid At All Costs
As part of our long-running series on foods you should and shouldn’t be eating, including foods that boost or lower your testosterone, we’ve considered some of the myriad ways that the modern world is conspiring to rob you of your health and vitality.
We’ve already seen, for instance, the awful effects of xenestrogens, ubiquitous industrial chemical compounds that mimic the effects of estrogen in the human body. In this article, we’ll consider a class of substance that is almost certainly just as evil as, if not more than, the pthalates and parabens that will make you fat and shrink your penis: vegetable oils. Despite being marketed as healthy, these oils are in fact almost single-handedly responsible for the health crisis that has engulfed the modern world. Will you take the redpill and see how deep the rabbit-hole goes? Remember, all I’m offering is the truth, nothing more.
What if I told you that everything you’ve been told about dietary fats is a lie? What if I told you that the vegetable oil and unsaturated fats you’re told are healthy, by everybody from your doctor to your parents and your teachers, are in fact among the unhealthiest foods you could possibly be eating?
What if I told you that Morpheus doesn’t actually say those words in the first Matrix movie?
‘The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.’
The Vegetable Oil Matrix
Replace the word ‘Matrix’ with ‘vegetable oil’ in this genuine quote from the film and you’ve basically got a description of the role of vegetable oil in the modern world. Vegetable oil is ubiquitous in modern food, whether we’re talking about pet food or human food, and its effects have long been clothed in what amounts to the disguise of a collective Big Lie. Of course, where such a state of cognitive dissonance exists in the modern world, the profit motive is usually present too, and this is certainly the case here as well.
Most westerners are basically eating pet food all the time
Whoa!
In fact, as Dr Catherine Shanahan, in her fantastic book Deep Nutrition, points out, there isn’t really much difference between cat food and the processed food that makes up the majority of the diet of so many people in the developed world.
‘Take a look at the back of a bag of dog or cat food, and here are the ingredients you’ll see: corn meal, soy meal, (occasionally) wheat, partially hydrogenated soy or corn or other vegetable oil, meat and protein meal, and a few synthetic vitamins. But guess what? The animal pushing the shopping cart is buying foods with the same list of ingredients for himself. The main differences between donuts, breads, and Cheerios are the quantities of hydrogenated oil and sugar.’ (p.111)
We can dispense with the question of ‘why’ straight away: because it’s incredibly cheap and convenient. Imagine: here is a simple modular way of producing thousands, if not millions, of ostensibly different foodstuffs that can be stored for great lengths of time and sold in vast quantities. Turn the dials one way, you have cat food; turn them another, you’ve got Joe Public’s favourite brand of salty, crispy snack or bread.
But what’s wrong with this? If that kibble’s good enough for fido, why shouldn’t I be eating it too? We’re both mammals, after all; we can’t be that different, can we? This line of reasoning has made a small minority of people very wealthy indeed.
But it’s also made the vast majority of people – and pets, for that matter – extremely unwell. In fact, you couldn’t really invent a worse diet for either of you. (A few months ago I started feeding my cat a raw meat diet of chicken, beef, organ meat and bonemeal and the difference in her health and behaviour has been astounding. But that’s another story.)
Let’s see just why vegetable oil is so awful.
Why vegetable oil is so awful
Although for many decades saturated fat and cholesterol were fingered as the principal cause of the West’s obesity and general health crisis, and although some still maintain that saturated fat and cholesterol are the devil incarnate, there is an ever-growing body of evidence that suggests that the real bad fats are what are known as trans-fats and oxidised polyunsaturated fats (PUFAs).
How Vegetable Oil Rose to Popularity
The story of how saturated fat – the natural animal products man has sustained himself upon since time immemorial – and cholesterol came to be seen in a negative light is an interesting one; we won’t, however, relate it in detail here, but will instead point you to chapter seven of Catherine Shanahan’s Deep Nutrition for a detailed account. To put it briefly, the process had little to do with good science and everything to do with the personal arrogance and vengefulness of an uncredentialed imposter called Ancel Keys, who had designed the famous K-ration during World War II.
‘Physiologist’ Ancel Keys
In recent years, the ‘evidence’ behind Keys’ hypothesis that saturated fat consumption is directly correlated with heart disease has been demolished, and his jerrymandering and bad faith have been revealed.
What is clear now is that, rather than saturated fats being the cause of the health conditions Keys claimed they were, it is the products he advocated instead, including margarine, that are almost certainly the real culprits. Interestingly enough, even Keys came to renounce his earlier ‘research’; although this has never been part of the public story.
Olive oil
Canola oil
Peanut oil
Soy oil
Butter
Cotton seed oil
Macadamia nut oil
Corn oil
Coconut oil
Grapeseed oil
Lard
Safflower oil
Tallow
Margarine
Palm oil
Spreadable butters
Know Your Fats:
Where do vegetable oils line up?
In our recent article on foods to boost your testosterone, we’ve already discussed how saturated fat and cholesterol intake, in particular the consumption of eggs, is actually pro-anabolic, causing increases in testosterone and protein synthesis in the body.
Low saturated fat intake is clearly associated with reduced testosterone, and consuming only egg whites is less anabolic than consuming whole eggs, including the cholesterol-rich yolk. [R] [R] Maintaining a proper hormonal balance is clearly associated with eating the right fats, and one very important way to begin reclaiming your masculinity is to do just that.
Without getting into serious details about lipid science, what makes trans-fats and PUFAS so bad is their inherent chemical instability, which causes them to wreak havok on the body’s tissues when they are consumed, through the production of free radicals.
Free radicals are high-energy electrons that play a role in every known form of disease. They do this by altering the structure of more or less every molecule they come into contact with, a process known as oxidative damage. And while free radicals are actually used by the body as part of its own defence system, a diet containing the bad fats listed above can cause uncontrollable cascades of oxidative damage.
Although polyunsaturated fats, which tend to be liquid at room temperature, have important uses in natural biology, for instance in fish and plants and seeds, the process of extracting, refining and then using them, especially in cooking, distorts the molecules and makes them even more reactive and dangerous to the body’s tissues.
The process of creating a vegetable-based oil is massively complex – and also revolting – and usually involves the application of high-pressure, heat and chemicals to produce a usable, long-life liquid fat. You can squeeze an olive to get oil, but you can’t just squeeze a piece of corn to get corn oil. The process of making ‘healthy’ canola oil is shown in the video below.
How Canola Oil – a popular vegetable oil – is made
In recent years, consumption of trans-fats and PUFAs have been linked to:
Let’s take just the first and third of these bullets – damage to the gut and microbiome, and damage to the arteries and blood vessels – and consider a couple of studies. With regard to the first, a group of researchers compared the effects of different fats on the guts of mice under stress. Half the mice were given oleic acid, the principal component of olive oil, and the rest were given linoleic acid, found in vegetable oil.
The mice fed the olive-oil derivative did not develop lesions in the lining of the stomach, whereas the mice fed linoleic acid did. [R] In a study involve fecal transplants from normal mice and overweight mice, severe negative effects were seen in mice given transplants from overweight mice that had been fed vegetable oil. [R] This is a clear sign that vegetable oil damages the microbiome, which we now know plays an extremely significant role in overall health, including emotional and cognitive health (the gut is sometimes now referred to as a ‘second brain’).
With regard to the third bullet, one study has shown that more people died due to heart disease when saturated fat was replaced with polyunsaturated fat. [R] Another study showed that replacing saturated fat with safflower oil and margarine was associated with an increase in all-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality and morality from coronary heart disease. [R]
In a short article like this, we are barely scratching the surface. If you’re serious about understanding just how bad vegetable oils are, we suggest Deep Nutrition by Catherine Shanahan, which we’ve referred to throughout this article. The book is replete with the latest evidence from lipid science and has the advantage of being elegantly and accessibly written.
In the meantime, now that you’ve taken the red pill, our advice is simple: clear your cupboards of all processed food and vegetable oils. It’s that simple. Given the ubiquity of vegetable oils, you’re going to have a hard time avoiding them totally, assuming you plan on going out and eating in restaurants and at friends’ houses, but reducing your intake to as close to zero as possible will be of enormous benefit to your long-term health and wellbeing.
A talk on the dangers of vegetable oils
https://herculeanstrength.com/sarms-2021-should-know/
Vegetable Oils – Avoid At All Costs
As part of our long-running series on foods you should and shouldn’t be eating, including foods that boost or lower your testosterone, we’ve considered some of the myriad ways that the modern world is conspiring to rob you of your health and vitality.
We’ve already seen, for instance, the awful effects of xenestrogens, ubiquitous industrial chemical compounds that mimic the effects of estrogen in the human body. In this article, we’ll consider a class of substance that is almost certainly just as evil as, if not more than, the pthalates and parabens that will make you fat and shrink your penis: vegetable oils. Despite being marketed as healthy, these oils are in fact almost single-handedly responsible for the health crisis that has engulfed the modern world. Will you take the redpill and see how deep the rabbit-hole goes? Remember, all I’m offering is the truth, nothing more.
What if I told you that everything you’ve been told about dietary fats is a lie? What if I told you that the vegetable oil and unsaturated fats you’re told are healthy, by everybody from your doctor to your parents and your teachers, are in fact among the unhealthiest foods you could possibly be eating?
What if I told you that Morpheus doesn’t actually say those words in the first Matrix movie?
‘The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.’
The Vegetable Oil Matrix
Replace the word ‘Matrix’ with ‘vegetable oil’ in this genuine quote from the film and you’ve basically got a description of the role of vegetable oil in the modern world. Vegetable oil is ubiquitous in modern food, whether we’re talking about pet food or human food, and its effects have long been clothed in what amounts to the disguise of a collective Big Lie. Of course, where such a state of cognitive dissonance exists in the modern world, the profit motive is usually present too, and this is certainly the case here as well.
Most westerners are basically eating pet food all the time
Whoa!
In fact, as Dr Catherine Shanahan, in her fantastic book Deep Nutrition, points out, there isn’t really much difference between cat food and the processed food that makes up the majority of the diet of so many people in the developed world.
‘Take a look at the back of a bag of dog or cat food, and here are the ingredients you’ll see: corn meal, soy meal, (occasionally) wheat, partially hydrogenated soy or corn or other vegetable oil, meat and protein meal, and a few synthetic vitamins. But guess what? The animal pushing the shopping cart is buying foods with the same list of ingredients for himself. The main differences between donuts, breads, and Cheerios are the quantities of hydrogenated oil and sugar.’ (p.111)
We can dispense with the question of ‘why’ straight away: because it’s incredibly cheap and convenient. Imagine: here is a simple modular way of producing thousands, if not millions, of ostensibly different foodstuffs that can be stored for great lengths of time and sold in vast quantities. Turn the dials one way, you have cat food; turn them another, you’ve got Joe Public’s favourite brand of salty, crispy snack or bread.
But what’s wrong with this? If that kibble’s good enough for fido, why shouldn’t I be eating it too? We’re both mammals, after all; we can’t be that different, can we? This line of reasoning has made a small minority of people very wealthy indeed.
But it’s also made the vast majority of people – and pets, for that matter – extremely unwell. In fact, you couldn’t really invent a worse diet for either of you. (A few months ago I started feeding my cat a raw meat diet of chicken, beef, organ meat and bonemeal and the difference in her health and behaviour has been astounding. But that’s another story.)
Let’s see just why vegetable oil is so awful.
Why vegetable oil is so awful
Although for many decades saturated fat and cholesterol were fingered as the principal cause of the West’s obesity and general health crisis, and although some still maintain that saturated fat and cholesterol are the devil incarnate, there is an ever-growing body of evidence that suggests that the real bad fats are what are known as trans-fats and oxidised polyunsaturated fats (PUFAs).
How Vegetable Oil Rose to Popularity
The story of how saturated fat – the natural animal products man has sustained himself upon since time immemorial – and cholesterol came to be seen in a negative light is an interesting one; we won’t, however, relate it in detail here, but will instead point you to chapter seven of Catherine Shanahan’s Deep Nutrition for a detailed account. To put it briefly, the process had little to do with good science and everything to do with the personal arrogance and vengefulness of an uncredentialed imposter called Ancel Keys, who had designed the famous K-ration during World War II.
‘Physiologist’ Ancel Keys
In recent years, the ‘evidence’ behind Keys’ hypothesis that saturated fat consumption is directly correlated with heart disease has been demolished, and his jerrymandering and bad faith have been revealed.
What is clear now is that, rather than saturated fats being the cause of the health conditions Keys claimed they were, it is the products he advocated instead, including margarine, that are almost certainly the real culprits. Interestingly enough, even Keys came to renounce his earlier ‘research’; although this has never been part of the public story.
Olive oil
Canola oil
Peanut oil
Soy oil
Butter
Cotton seed oil
Macadamia nut oil
Corn oil
Coconut oil
Grapeseed oil
Lard
Safflower oil
Tallow
Margarine
Palm oil
Spreadable butters
Know Your Fats:
Where do vegetable oils line up?
In our recent article on foods to boost your testosterone, we’ve already discussed how saturated fat and cholesterol intake, in particular the consumption of eggs, is actually pro-anabolic, causing increases in testosterone and protein synthesis in the body.
Low saturated fat intake is clearly associated with reduced testosterone, and consuming only egg whites is less anabolic than consuming whole eggs, including the cholesterol-rich yolk. [R] [R] Maintaining a proper hormonal balance is clearly associated with eating the right fats, and one very important way to begin reclaiming your masculinity is to do just that.
Without getting into serious details about lipid science, what makes trans-fats and PUFAS so bad is their inherent chemical instability, which causes them to wreak havok on the body’s tissues when they are consumed, through the production of free radicals.
Free radicals are high-energy electrons that play a role in every known form of disease. They do this by altering the structure of more or less every molecule they come into contact with, a process known as oxidative damage. And while free radicals are actually used by the body as part of its own defence system, a diet containing the bad fats listed above can cause uncontrollable cascades of oxidative damage.
Although polyunsaturated fats, which tend to be liquid at room temperature, have important uses in natural biology, for instance in fish and plants and seeds, the process of extracting, refining and then using them, especially in cooking, distorts the molecules and makes them even more reactive and dangerous to the body’s tissues.
The process of creating a vegetable-based oil is massively complex – and also revolting – and usually involves the application of high-pressure, heat and chemicals to produce a usable, long-life liquid fat. You can squeeze an olive to get oil, but you can’t just squeeze a piece of corn to get corn oil. The process of making ‘healthy’ canola oil is shown in the video below.
How Canola Oil – a popular vegetable oil – is made
In recent years, consumption of trans-fats and PUFAs have been linked to:
- Inflammatory damage to the gut and microbiome, including leaky gut
- The transportation of toxins into the brain
- Damage to the arteries and blood vessels
- Immune system dysfunctions and nerve degeneration
- Damage to cell structure
- Damage to genetic material and increased rates of genetic mutation
Let’s take just the first and third of these bullets – damage to the gut and microbiome, and damage to the arteries and blood vessels – and consider a couple of studies. With regard to the first, a group of researchers compared the effects of different fats on the guts of mice under stress. Half the mice were given oleic acid, the principal component of olive oil, and the rest were given linoleic acid, found in vegetable oil.
The mice fed the olive-oil derivative did not develop lesions in the lining of the stomach, whereas the mice fed linoleic acid did. [R] In a study involve fecal transplants from normal mice and overweight mice, severe negative effects were seen in mice given transplants from overweight mice that had been fed vegetable oil. [R] This is a clear sign that vegetable oil damages the microbiome, which we now know plays an extremely significant role in overall health, including emotional and cognitive health (the gut is sometimes now referred to as a ‘second brain’).
With regard to the third bullet, one study has shown that more people died due to heart disease when saturated fat was replaced with polyunsaturated fat. [R] Another study showed that replacing saturated fat with safflower oil and margarine was associated with an increase in all-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality and morality from coronary heart disease. [R]
In a short article like this, we are barely scratching the surface. If you’re serious about understanding just how bad vegetable oils are, we suggest Deep Nutrition by Catherine Shanahan, which we’ve referred to throughout this article. The book is replete with the latest evidence from lipid science and has the advantage of being elegantly and accessibly written.
In the meantime, now that you’ve taken the red pill, our advice is simple: clear your cupboards of all processed food and vegetable oils. It’s that simple. Given the ubiquity of vegetable oils, you’re going to have a hard time avoiding them totally, assuming you plan on going out and eating in restaurants and at friends’ houses, but reducing your intake to as close to zero as possible will be of enormous benefit to your long-term health and wellbeing.
A talk on the dangers of vegetable oils
https://herculeanstrength.com/sarms-2021-should-know/
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SOYBEAN OIL,
THE MOST WIDELY CONSUMED OIL IN THE US,
CAUSES GENE DYSREGULATION IN MICE,
LEADING TO WEIGHT GAIN AND NEUROLOGICAL PROBLEMS,
IN ALARMING 2020 STUDY
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By Conrad Scott
Soybean Oil and Shocking Results
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THE MOST WIDELY CONSUMED OIL IN THE US,
CAUSES GENE DYSREGULATION IN MICE,
LEADING TO WEIGHT GAIN AND NEUROLOGICAL PROBLEMS,
IN ALARMING 2020 STUDY
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By Conrad Scott
Soybean Oil and Shocking Results
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According to a 2020 study, soybean oil — the most commonly consumed oil in America — caused gene dysregulation in mice which led to neurological problems, particularly in their ability to bond, and weight gain.
Recently we dubbed vegetable oil ‘one of the worst things you can eat’, and also included vegetable-oil-laden processed food as one of the main foods that make you ugly.
The DIET ... two-thirds of the adult population in the UK.
Processed food has been under intense scrutiny in recent weeks, as a result of a new documentary that aired on the BBC last night. For a period of a month, a British doctor conducted a self-experiment by eating a diet composed of 80% processed food, a diet consumed by as much as two-thirds of the adult population in the UK.
The shocking results of the doctor’s experiment included serious weight gain, piles, anxiety, sleeplessness, loss of libido and, most shockingly of all, changes to the structure of his brain considered to be typical of drug addicts. Weeks after the experiment ended, scans revealed that the neurological changes had not been reversed.
The doctor is now quite literally hard-wired to want to eat processed food.
The serious negative health effects of vegetable oil consumption, with a particular focus on deep physical changes, have been a subject of much discussion over the past few days on Twitter, as a study from 2020 on soybean consumption did the rounds.
Soybean Oil and Shocking Results
As the study notes, there has ‘been a 1000-fold increase in the consumption of soybean oil in the United States during the 20th century.’ Studies, including by the authors of this particular study, have already shown that soybean oil is obesogenic – causes obesity – in mice and, echoing the British doctor’s self-experiment, that it causes deeper physiological changes, including to the expression of hundreds of genes in the livers of mice.
It’s worth noting that this research is part of a general shift away from a model of obesity focusing on saturated fat and cholesterol consumption, to consumption of polyunsaturated fats (PUFAs), which for at least 70 years have been pushed as ‘healthy’ alternatives to ‘unhealthy’ animal fats.
One of the key figures in this move away from consumption of the fats that have sustained our ancestors since time immemorial was Ancel Keys, and we have discussed his shoddy science and hucksterism in detail in our article about vegetable oil.
https://herculeanstrength.com/vegetable-oil-the-worst-thing/
Ancel Benjamin Keys (January 26, 1904 – November 20, 2004) was an American physiologist who studied the influence of diet on health.
Ancel Keys, the fake expert responsible for one of the greatest shifts in dietary habits in history,
Recently we dubbed vegetable oil ‘one of the worst things you can eat’, and also included vegetable-oil-laden processed food as one of the main foods that make you ugly.
The DIET ... two-thirds of the adult population in the UK.
Processed food has been under intense scrutiny in recent weeks, as a result of a new documentary that aired on the BBC last night. For a period of a month, a British doctor conducted a self-experiment by eating a diet composed of 80% processed food, a diet consumed by as much as two-thirds of the adult population in the UK.
The shocking results of the doctor’s experiment included serious weight gain, piles, anxiety, sleeplessness, loss of libido and, most shockingly of all, changes to the structure of his brain considered to be typical of drug addicts. Weeks after the experiment ended, scans revealed that the neurological changes had not been reversed.
The doctor is now quite literally hard-wired to want to eat processed food.
The serious negative health effects of vegetable oil consumption, with a particular focus on deep physical changes, have been a subject of much discussion over the past few days on Twitter, as a study from 2020 on soybean consumption did the rounds.
Soybean Oil and Shocking Results
As the study notes, there has ‘been a 1000-fold increase in the consumption of soybean oil in the United States during the 20th century.’ Studies, including by the authors of this particular study, have already shown that soybean oil is obesogenic – causes obesity – in mice and, echoing the British doctor’s self-experiment, that it causes deeper physiological changes, including to the expression of hundreds of genes in the livers of mice.
It’s worth noting that this research is part of a general shift away from a model of obesity focusing on saturated fat and cholesterol consumption, to consumption of polyunsaturated fats (PUFAs), which for at least 70 years have been pushed as ‘healthy’ alternatives to ‘unhealthy’ animal fats.
One of the key figures in this move away from consumption of the fats that have sustained our ancestors since time immemorial was Ancel Keys, and we have discussed his shoddy science and hucksterism in detail in our article about vegetable oil.
https://herculeanstrength.com/vegetable-oil-the-worst-thing/
Ancel Benjamin Keys (January 26, 1904 – November 20, 2004) was an American physiologist who studied the influence of diet on health.
Ancel Keys, the fake expert responsible for one of the greatest shifts in dietary habits in history,
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Given the involvement of the hypothalamus, a network within the brain, in regulating nutritional intake and causing behavioural and metabolic changes in response to the availability of food, the researchers hypothesised that soybean oil might cause changes to the expression of genes responsible for this area of the brain (i.e. how these genes work).
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Four groups of mice were fed different isocaloric diets (diets with the same number of calories).
One group was fed a diet that contained conventional soybean oil, high in linoleic acid; the second, a diet that contained genetically modified soybean oil that was low in linoleic acid; the third, a diet that contained coconut oil, which is high in saturated fat; the fourth was given a low-fat control diet.
The researchers noted that the two soybean diets had similar but non-identical effects on expression of genes for the hypothalamus, whereas the coconut oil had a negligible effect compared to the control diet.
Among the genes that were dysregulated by the soybean-oil diets were genes associated with inflammation, neuroendocrine, neurochemical, and insulin signalling, as well as the production of oxytocin, an important hormone.
As the Twitter poster above noted, oxytocin is involved in empathy and social bonding, as well as other important biological processes including weight gain. Many of the genes that were dysregulated by the soybean oils are also linked to neurological diseases including Alheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s and autism.
Insulin resistance, a topic we have recently covered in two articles (here and here), was increased by the soybean diets, and the mice on the conventional soybean oil experienced the greatest amount of weight gain, despite consuming the same amount of calories as the others.
The researchers conclude:
‘All told, our results demonstrate that different dietary oils can have differential effects on hypothalamic gene expression and raise the possibility that the SO-rich American diet may be not only contributing to increased rates of metabolic disease but also affecting neurological function.’
The study provides yet more powerful evidence in favour of returning, if you haven’t already, to the foods that have sustained us and our ancestors since time immemorial. Not industrially produced oils and plant-based ‘meat’ – which producers, who are seeing falling profits, are already realising will require massive social pressure if they are to succeed – but the superior nutrition of high-quality animal-based products.
As this study shows, even scientific researchers are now coming to see the wisdom of the ancient formula mens sana in corpore sano: a sound mind in a sound body. If you’re interested further in the interaction between gut and brain, try this recent article on why sugar appears to harm brain development during adolescence.
One group was fed a diet that contained conventional soybean oil, high in linoleic acid; the second, a diet that contained genetically modified soybean oil that was low in linoleic acid; the third, a diet that contained coconut oil, which is high in saturated fat; the fourth was given a low-fat control diet.
The researchers noted that the two soybean diets had similar but non-identical effects on expression of genes for the hypothalamus, whereas the coconut oil had a negligible effect compared to the control diet.
Among the genes that were dysregulated by the soybean-oil diets were genes associated with inflammation, neuroendocrine, neurochemical, and insulin signalling, as well as the production of oxytocin, an important hormone.
As the Twitter poster above noted, oxytocin is involved in empathy and social bonding, as well as other important biological processes including weight gain. Many of the genes that were dysregulated by the soybean oils are also linked to neurological diseases including Alheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s and autism.
Insulin resistance, a topic we have recently covered in two articles (here and here), was increased by the soybean diets, and the mice on the conventional soybean oil experienced the greatest amount of weight gain, despite consuming the same amount of calories as the others.
The researchers conclude:
‘All told, our results demonstrate that different dietary oils can have differential effects on hypothalamic gene expression and raise the possibility that the SO-rich American diet may be not only contributing to increased rates of metabolic disease but also affecting neurological function.’
The study provides yet more powerful evidence in favour of returning, if you haven’t already, to the foods that have sustained us and our ancestors since time immemorial. Not industrially produced oils and plant-based ‘meat’ – which producers, who are seeing falling profits, are already realising will require massive social pressure if they are to succeed – but the superior nutrition of high-quality animal-based products.
As this study shows, even scientific researchers are now coming to see the wisdom of the ancient formula mens sana in corpore sano: a sound mind in a sound body. If you’re interested further in the interaction between gut and brain, try this recent article on why sugar appears to harm brain development during adolescence.
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Ovarian Toxicity &
“Remarkable Estrogenic Properties” -
Scary New 2023 Study
by Conrad Scott - Herculean Strength
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“Remarkable Estrogenic Properties” -
Scary New 2023 Study
by Conrad Scott - Herculean Strength
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According to a 2020 study, soybean oil — the most commonly consumed oil in America — caused gene dysregulation in mice which led to neurological problems, particularly in their ability to bond, and weight gain.
A little while back we called vegetable oils “one of the worst foods you can consume“. That was before our article on the serious genetic dysregulation caused to lab rodents by soybean oil, and now another new study has shown that vegetable oils are seriously bad news.
In this new study, researchers looked at GM and non-GM varieties of various vegetable oils and discovered that they demonstrated ovarian toxicity in every case, as well as “remarkable estrogenic properties.” None of that is good.
As much as it’s nice to be proven right, the fact is that vegetable oils are ubiquitous in modern Western diets, in some cases providing the lion’s share of daily calories. In truth, the ill effects of vegetable oils have civilizational consequences. The sooner we acknowledge this and try to do something about it, the better.
New study on vegetable oilsIn this new study, out of the Tehran Medical Sciences University and published in the Journal of Environmental Science and Pollution Research International, researchers evaluated the reproductive toxicity of GM and non-GM vegetable oils in female wistar rats. They were motivated to do this research due to existing research on the endocrine-disrupting effects of these oils.
They fed the rats sunflower (non-GM), maize (GM) and canola (GM) oils which had been purchased from a local market. The oils were fed to the rats for 28 days, and a battery of tests were performed on the animals at the beginning and end, including measuring serum lipid levels and sex hormones, as well as performing necropsies.
Regardless of which oil the animals were fed, all of them showed worrying abnormalities in their reproductive organs, which included atrophy (shrinking) of the ovaries, congestion and multiple follicular cysts. Remember, the study only took place for a period of one month.
In addition, the researchers noted that these oils all showed “remarkable estrogenic properties”, with serum estradiol (estrogen) levels being raised in all of the animals fed the oils.
Soybean oil: most commonly consumed oil in the US causes serious genetic dysregulation in mice.
According to a 2020 study, soybean oil — the most commonly consumed oil in America — caused gene dysregulation in mice which led to neurological problems, particularly in their ability to bond, and weight gain.
Four groups of mice were fed different isocaloric diets (diets with the same number of calories). One group was fed a diet that contained conventional soybean oil, high in linoleic acid; the second, a diet that contained genetically modified soybean oil that was low in linoleic acid; the third, a diet that contained coconut oil, which is high in saturated fat; the fourth was given a low-fat control diet.
The researchers noted that the two soybean diets had similar but non-identical effects on expression of genes for the hypothalamus, whereas the coconut oil had a negligible effect compared to the control diet.
Among the genes that were dysregulated by the soybean-oil diets were genes associated with inflammation, neuroendocrine, neurochemical, and insulin signalling, as well as the production of oxytocin, an important hormone.
Oxytocin is involved in empathy and social bonding, as well as other important biological processes including weight gain. Many of the genes that were dysregulated by the soybean oils are also linked to neurological diseases including Alheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s and autism.
A little while back we called vegetable oils “one of the worst foods you can consume“. That was before our article on the serious genetic dysregulation caused to lab rodents by soybean oil, and now another new study has shown that vegetable oils are seriously bad news.
In this new study, researchers looked at GM and non-GM varieties of various vegetable oils and discovered that they demonstrated ovarian toxicity in every case, as well as “remarkable estrogenic properties.” None of that is good.
As much as it’s nice to be proven right, the fact is that vegetable oils are ubiquitous in modern Western diets, in some cases providing the lion’s share of daily calories. In truth, the ill effects of vegetable oils have civilizational consequences. The sooner we acknowledge this and try to do something about it, the better.
New study on vegetable oilsIn this new study, out of the Tehran Medical Sciences University and published in the Journal of Environmental Science and Pollution Research International, researchers evaluated the reproductive toxicity of GM and non-GM vegetable oils in female wistar rats. They were motivated to do this research due to existing research on the endocrine-disrupting effects of these oils.
They fed the rats sunflower (non-GM), maize (GM) and canola (GM) oils which had been purchased from a local market. The oils were fed to the rats for 28 days, and a battery of tests were performed on the animals at the beginning and end, including measuring serum lipid levels and sex hormones, as well as performing necropsies.
Regardless of which oil the animals were fed, all of them showed worrying abnormalities in their reproductive organs, which included atrophy (shrinking) of the ovaries, congestion and multiple follicular cysts. Remember, the study only took place for a period of one month.
In addition, the researchers noted that these oils all showed “remarkable estrogenic properties”, with serum estradiol (estrogen) levels being raised in all of the animals fed the oils.
Soybean oil: most commonly consumed oil in the US causes serious genetic dysregulation in mice.
According to a 2020 study, soybean oil — the most commonly consumed oil in America — caused gene dysregulation in mice which led to neurological problems, particularly in their ability to bond, and weight gain.
Four groups of mice were fed different isocaloric diets (diets with the same number of calories). One group was fed a diet that contained conventional soybean oil, high in linoleic acid; the second, a diet that contained genetically modified soybean oil that was low in linoleic acid; the third, a diet that contained coconut oil, which is high in saturated fat; the fourth was given a low-fat control diet.
The researchers noted that the two soybean diets had similar but non-identical effects on expression of genes for the hypothalamus, whereas the coconut oil had a negligible effect compared to the control diet.
Among the genes that were dysregulated by the soybean-oil diets were genes associated with inflammation, neuroendocrine, neurochemical, and insulin signalling, as well as the production of oxytocin, an important hormone.
Oxytocin is involved in empathy and social bonding, as well as other important biological processes including weight gain. Many of the genes that were dysregulated by the soybean oils are also linked to neurological diseases including Alheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s and autism.
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Oxytocin can help us bond with loved ones
and can be released through touch, music and exercise.
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Oxytocin is involved in empathy and social bonding,
as well as other important biological processes including weight gain.
Many of the genes that were dysregulated by the soybean oils are also linked
to neurological diseases
including Alheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s and autism.
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Oxytocin can help us bond with loved ones
and can be released through touch, music and exercise.
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Oxytocin is involved in empathy and social bonding,
as well as other important biological processes including weight gain.
Many of the genes that were dysregulated by the soybean oils are also linked
to neurological diseases
including Alheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s and autism.
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Insulin resistance, a topic we have recently covered in two articles (here and here), was increased by the soybean diets, and the mice on the conventional soybean oil experienced the greatest amount of weight gain, despite consuming the same amount of calories as the others.
Click here to read more about the potentially dire consequences soybean oil consumption could be having for humans too.
The researchers note that these estrogenic effects could have been caused by phthalate and xenoestrogen contamination of the oils, and end the study by calling for further research into the oils themselves and their effects on humans.
It’s worth noting that studies have already shown that vegetable oils can become contaminated with xenoestrogens if they are stored in plastic. This study out of Turkey showed that, of a variety of oils analysed using gas chromatography, the highest phthalate levels were observed in sunflower oil. Oils that were stored in polyethylene terephthalate showed the highest levels overall.
It’s worth noting that the amount of xenoestrogenic substances that leach into vegetable oils from plastics seems to be much greater than leaches into water, for instance. In one review study, the researchers stated that phthalates in edible oils “were 45-396 times of those in bottled water”.
Click here to read more about the potentially dire consequences soybean oil consumption could be having for humans too.
The researchers note that these estrogenic effects could have been caused by phthalate and xenoestrogen contamination of the oils, and end the study by calling for further research into the oils themselves and their effects on humans.
It’s worth noting that studies have already shown that vegetable oils can become contaminated with xenoestrogens if they are stored in plastic. This study out of Turkey showed that, of a variety of oils analysed using gas chromatography, the highest phthalate levels were observed in sunflower oil. Oils that were stored in polyethylene terephthalate showed the highest levels overall.
It’s worth noting that the amount of xenoestrogenic substances that leach into vegetable oils from plastics seems to be much greater than leaches into water, for instance. In one review study, the researchers stated that phthalates in edible oils “were 45-396 times of those in bottled water”.
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New research has shown the deleterious effects of sugar consumption on brain development during adolescence.
Sugar significantly impaired the performance of juvenile rats in a series of learning and cognition tasks staged by researchers from the Universities of Georgia and California. Although we already know plenty about how high sugar consumption is related to obesity and ill health, the study adds a new reason to avoid eating sugar, and especially to avoid feeding it to your children.
Go Easy on The Sugar
The brain’s development can suffer when exposed to certain treatsGiven the amount of s*gar consumed in the West the research should make for discomfiting reading. Even if a spoonful of the white stuff really does help the medicine go down – one teaspoon of sugar is roughly 4g – the average person in the US, the world’s highest consumer of sugar, now takes in more than 30 times that amount each day, or 126.4g. The world’s largest consumers are all in the developed Western world, perhaps with the exception of Mexico, in eighth place.
Top 10 global sugar consumers
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In 1915, the average American consumed 17.5lbs of sugar a year. In 2011, that number had risen to a whopping 150lbs a year, or roughly the weight of a fighter in the UFC’s lightweight division.
Children are among the biggest consumers of sugar, with virtually every food product marketed for children containing some form of added sugar. In the United Kingdom, for instance, English children consume double the recommended amount of sugar each year, with the majority of their consumption coming from soft drinks; buns, cakes and pastries; sugars, including table sugar and preserves and spread; biscuits; breakfast cereals; and chocolate bars.
In England, a third of children leave primary (elementary) school overweight or obese, and up to a quarter of five year olds suffer from tooth decay that causes them pain. Fat children are likely to become fat adults, and suffer from a variety of health conditions, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease and certain forms of cancer.
As part of the research, juvenile rats were given their normal chow and also an 11% sugar solution, which is comparable to a normal shop-bought soda.
Researchers first had the rats perform a memory task designed to measure episodic contextual memory – basically, to remember the context in which they had seen a familiar object before. The task focused on the hippocampus, a part of the brain that continues to develop through adolescence.
“We found that rats that consumed sugar in early life had an impaired capacity to discriminate that an object was novel to a specific context, a task the rats that were not given sugar were able to do,” the lead author of the paper comments.
A second memory task measured basic recognition memory. This task, by contrast, was not dependent on the hippocampus. Here, sugar had no effect on the animals’ recognition memory.
The conclusion is clearly that sugar consumption can ‘selectively impair… hippocampal learning and memory.’
In order to try to understand why this was happening, the researchers looked to the microbiome, the ecosystem of bacteria inhabiting our body, which is often referred to as the body’s ‘second brain’.
The body’s second brain? (No, not the abs: the gut.)
Further analysis determined that high sugar consumption had led to elevated levels of Parabacteroides in the gut. The better to understand the role these bacteria might be playing, the researchers increased levels of these bacteria in the guts of rats that had never confined sugar. Again, these animals showed impairments in both hippocampal dependent and hippocampal-independent memory tasks.
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The authors believe more research is needed to identify specific pathways along which this gut-brain signaling takes place.
“The question now is how do these populations of bacteria in the gut alter the development of the brain?” the lead author said. “Identifying how the bacteria in the gut are impacting brain development will tell us about what sort of internal environment the brain needs in order to grow in a healthy way.”
(1) Put that cookie down, NOW!! – Arnold Schwarzenegger – YouTube
Arnie’s memorable lineThere are various other lifestyle changes which can lead to a better quality of life. For example, low testosterone levels in men can wreak havoc on their mental health.
Recent studies also showed that animal fat is necessary for a healthy brain, in spite of recent pushes to stigmatize the consumption of beef.
Gym supplements such as creatine can play a positive role for the brain’s functions and even boast promising nootropic properties.
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Adolescence
Description
Adolescence is a transitional stage of physical and psychological development
that generally occurs during the period from puberty to adulthood.
Adolescence is usually associated with the teenage years,
but its physical, psychological or cultural expressions may begin earlier or end later. Wikipedia
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Adolescence
Description
Adolescence is a transitional stage of physical and psychological development
that generally occurs during the period from puberty to adulthood.
Adolescence is usually associated with the teenage years,
but its physical, psychological or cultural expressions may begin earlier or end later. Wikipedia
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For Low Blood Pressure
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Beets
Beets lower blood pressure significantly thanks to high levels of dietary nitrates. The British Heart Foundation funded a study of 68 patients with hypertension. Half the patients received 250 ml (about a cup) of beetroot juice or a placebo juice containing no nitrates.
Blood pressure in the nitrate group dropped a mean amount of 8.1/3.8 mmHg. In addition, endothelial function improved by about 20 percent and arterial stiffness was reduced in the nitrate group but not in the placebo group.
Another recent prospective study of 1546 non-hypertensive subjects, aged 20-70 years, collected data on the amount of nitrate-containing vegetables people ate every day. After three years those who ate the most nitrate-rich veggies cut the risk of hypertension by 37 percent compared to those who ate the least.
Garlic
Adding garlic to your diet can help reduce blood pressure. In a meta-analysis of seven randomized, placebo-controlled trials researchers found a significant blood pressure effect of garlic. On average systolic pressure dropped 6.71 mmHg and diastolic pressure dropped 4.79 mmHg.
Garlic’s effects on blood pressure are dose dependent. An Australian study looked at 79 patients with uncontrolled systolic hypertension. Patients were divided in four groups and every day received either a placebo, or one, two, or four capsules of aged garlic extract (240, 480, or 960 mg per day). The dose of 2 capsules per day (480 mg) was most effective, lowering mean systolic blood pressure by 11.8 mmHg.
Watermelon
Studies show that watermelon lowers blood pressure. A pilot study from The Florida State University gave 9 pre-hypertensive people six grams a day of the amino acid L-citrulline from watermelon extract. All of the patients showed improved arterial function and lower aortic blood pressure.
Because it is rich in potassium, watermelon also helps keep salt from raising blood pressure. It also contains lycopene, a powerful antioxidant associated with heart health, healthy arteries and blood flow. Other studies show that watermelon extract improves aortic blood pressure.
Pomegranate Juice
In an Israeli study 101 kidney disease patients were randomized to receive 100 cc (a little over three ounces) of pomegranate juice or a placebo drink every day. After one year systolic blood pressure was significantly lower in the pomegranate juice group but not in the placebo group. Researchers concluded that drinking pomegranate juice regularly reduces systolic blood pressure and may reduce atherosclerosis.
Chokeberry Juice
Studies also prove polyphenols in fruit juices have a positive impact on blood pressure. In one study drinking 400 ml (about 13 ounces) of chokeberry juice significantly lowered blood pressure after just four weeks.
Pistachio Nuts
A meta-analysis of 21 randomized controlled trial concluded that nuts lower blood pressure. Pistachios had the strongest effect on reducing systolic and diastolic pressure.
Coconut Water
In a study from the West Indies hypertensive patients who drank coconut water had significant drops in blood pressure in just two weeks. Of those drinking coconut water, 71 percent had significant decreases in systolic pressure, and 29% had significant decreases in diastolic pressure.
Flaxseeds
Flaxseeds contain omega-3 fats, lignans, and fiber that provide benefits to patients with cardiovascular disease. A meta-analysis of 11 studies found that eating flaxseed products reduced blood pressure.
Hibiscus Tea
In a double-blind randomized controlled trial 60 diabetic patients were assigned to drink two cups of hibiscus tea or black tea a day. After 30 days the hibiscus tea lowered systolic pressure by a mean of 22 mmHg and pulse pressure by 18 mmHg. Black tea drinkers saw their pressure increase.
Fruits and vegetables that have been proven to lower blood pressure include:
Gazpacho Soup
Kiwi Fruit
Blueberries
Concord Grapes
Spices can also regulate blood pressure.
Cinnamon
In a British study of diabetics, taking two grams of cinnamon significantly reduced blood pressure in just 12 week.
Cardamom
In a study from India, patients with stage one hypertension were given three grams of cardamom powder a day in two divided doses. After 12 weeks the cardamom significantly lowered both systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Researchers also reported that all of the patients experienced a feeling of well-being without any side-effects.
Beets lower blood pressure significantly thanks to high levels of dietary nitrates. The British Heart Foundation funded a study of 68 patients with hypertension. Half the patients received 250 ml (about a cup) of beetroot juice or a placebo juice containing no nitrates.
Blood pressure in the nitrate group dropped a mean amount of 8.1/3.8 mmHg. In addition, endothelial function improved by about 20 percent and arterial stiffness was reduced in the nitrate group but not in the placebo group.
Another recent prospective study of 1546 non-hypertensive subjects, aged 20-70 years, collected data on the amount of nitrate-containing vegetables people ate every day. After three years those who ate the most nitrate-rich veggies cut the risk of hypertension by 37 percent compared to those who ate the least.
Garlic
Adding garlic to your diet can help reduce blood pressure. In a meta-analysis of seven randomized, placebo-controlled trials researchers found a significant blood pressure effect of garlic. On average systolic pressure dropped 6.71 mmHg and diastolic pressure dropped 4.79 mmHg.
Garlic’s effects on blood pressure are dose dependent. An Australian study looked at 79 patients with uncontrolled systolic hypertension. Patients were divided in four groups and every day received either a placebo, or one, two, or four capsules of aged garlic extract (240, 480, or 960 mg per day). The dose of 2 capsules per day (480 mg) was most effective, lowering mean systolic blood pressure by 11.8 mmHg.
Watermelon
Studies show that watermelon lowers blood pressure. A pilot study from The Florida State University gave 9 pre-hypertensive people six grams a day of the amino acid L-citrulline from watermelon extract. All of the patients showed improved arterial function and lower aortic blood pressure.
Because it is rich in potassium, watermelon also helps keep salt from raising blood pressure. It also contains lycopene, a powerful antioxidant associated with heart health, healthy arteries and blood flow. Other studies show that watermelon extract improves aortic blood pressure.
Pomegranate Juice
In an Israeli study 101 kidney disease patients were randomized to receive 100 cc (a little over three ounces) of pomegranate juice or a placebo drink every day. After one year systolic blood pressure was significantly lower in the pomegranate juice group but not in the placebo group. Researchers concluded that drinking pomegranate juice regularly reduces systolic blood pressure and may reduce atherosclerosis.
Chokeberry Juice
Studies also prove polyphenols in fruit juices have a positive impact on blood pressure. In one study drinking 400 ml (about 13 ounces) of chokeberry juice significantly lowered blood pressure after just four weeks.
Pistachio Nuts
A meta-analysis of 21 randomized controlled trial concluded that nuts lower blood pressure. Pistachios had the strongest effect on reducing systolic and diastolic pressure.
Coconut Water
In a study from the West Indies hypertensive patients who drank coconut water had significant drops in blood pressure in just two weeks. Of those drinking coconut water, 71 percent had significant decreases in systolic pressure, and 29% had significant decreases in diastolic pressure.
Flaxseeds
Flaxseeds contain omega-3 fats, lignans, and fiber that provide benefits to patients with cardiovascular disease. A meta-analysis of 11 studies found that eating flaxseed products reduced blood pressure.
Hibiscus Tea
In a double-blind randomized controlled trial 60 diabetic patients were assigned to drink two cups of hibiscus tea or black tea a day. After 30 days the hibiscus tea lowered systolic pressure by a mean of 22 mmHg and pulse pressure by 18 mmHg. Black tea drinkers saw their pressure increase.
Fruits and vegetables that have been proven to lower blood pressure include:
Gazpacho Soup
Kiwi Fruit
Blueberries
Concord Grapes
Spices can also regulate blood pressure.
Cinnamon
In a British study of diabetics, taking two grams of cinnamon significantly reduced blood pressure in just 12 week.
Cardamom
In a study from India, patients with stage one hypertension were given three grams of cardamom powder a day in two divided doses. After 12 weeks the cardamom significantly lowered both systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Researchers also reported that all of the patients experienced a feeling of well-being without any side-effects.
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