Scientists have found that two glasses of orange juice every day can lower blood pressure and cut the risk of heart disease. They exposed that middle aged men who drank half a litre of juice every day for a month, equivalent to about two glasses, saw an important decline in their blood pressure readings. Findings prove the presence of a natural plant chemical called hesperidin part of a class of disease-hostility compounds found in plant foods like tea, fruit, soya and cocoa. High blood pressure, which puts our arteries under better pressure when the heart beats, affect one in five people and is one of the main risk factors contributing to a cardiac arrest.
The World Health Organization estimate that 50 per cent of all heart attacks and strokes are due to raise blood pressure. Guidelines state that the ideal boundary for blood pressure is a systolic reading the pressure inside the artery when blood is enforced through them of 140mmHg. To test their theory that it is hesperidin that gives orange juice its cardiovascular remuneration, scientists at the University of Auvergne in France take on 24 overweight but otherwise healthy middle aged men. Each one exhausted four weeks drinking half-a-litre of orange juice every day, follow by four weeks where they drank sweetened water and took a tablet containing hesperidin.
In the final four weeks of the research, they drank the same water and took a model capsule that had no hesperidin in it. The results show that at the end of the orange juice experiment and the one where they took a hesperidin capsule, there was an important decline in their diastolic blood pressure. Average reading was between 3.2 and 5.5mmHg lesser than after they took the dummy capsule with water. "The main result was that four weeks of intense orange juice, or purified hesperidin, considerably decreased diastolic blood pressure in healthy men," the Daily Mail quote the researchers as saying. "A three to four point reduction in diastolic blood pressure would reduce the incidence of coronary artery disease by 20 per cent.
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The World Health Organization estimate that 50 per cent of all heart attacks and strokes are due to raise blood pressure. Guidelines state that the ideal boundary for blood pressure is a systolic reading the pressure inside the artery when blood is enforced through them of 140mmHg. To test their theory that it is hesperidin that gives orange juice its cardiovascular remuneration, scientists at the University of Auvergne in France take on 24 overweight but otherwise healthy middle aged men. Each one exhausted four weeks drinking half-a-litre of orange juice every day, follow by four weeks where they drank sweetened water and took a tablet containing hesperidin.
In the final four weeks of the research, they drank the same water and took a model capsule that had no hesperidin in it. The results show that at the end of the orange juice experiment and the one where they took a hesperidin capsule, there was an important decline in their diastolic blood pressure. Average reading was between 3.2 and 5.5mmHg lesser than after they took the dummy capsule with water. "The main result was that four weeks of intense orange juice, or purified hesperidin, considerably decreased diastolic blood pressure in healthy men," the Daily Mail quote the researchers as saying. "A three to four point reduction in diastolic blood pressure would reduce the incidence of coronary artery disease by 20 per cent.
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