Post by Steve on Mar 30, 2017 13:24:38 GMT -8
What could be more ironic than to learn that a source of commercial sugar (pure glucose) would be an excellent vegetable for a diabetic to eat? And yet, it is true. Read this page for a full story...
Beets have some secrets that should interest you, especially if you happen to have elevated blood pressure. I have always generally liked beets but only put them in a salad every so often. Shoestring beets,that was about it. Then somewhere along the way I read that beets were good for lowering blood pressure. Hmmm, okay, that was interesting. But I felt my BP was good, so no concerns. My systolic was 130–135 and I had read that this was a good number for people 65+, so I accepted that. I confess that I also have been taking a low dose of something to control BP, and this had not been a particular point of conversation with my PCP.
Then I had a small wound on my Charcot foot! This required visits from nurses from Marshall every few days to check the healing progress. That involved a quick check of my vitals. A few visits later, they shoeed up with a sheet of info about prehypertension (systolic between 120 and 139.) I took the advice and read more about beets.
Beets bring nitric oxide[1] to the party! "Plants typically extract inorganic nitrates from the soil and their environment; inorganic nitrates are particularly abundant in the roots of beets." Here is a page of info from a study done in 2016.
I started eating beets every day. I found a brand called Love Beets that are cooked and ready to eat, prepared with no added anything (no sugar, no salt) and are so good it's hard to only eat one or two at and stop, to leave some for later. Within days my BP was down to 120 and often even lower! In the hospital I did not have access, amd for a few weeks I was back up around 130–139, biut now I'm back on track and am 115–120. Love beets are expensive relative to canned beets ($4 vs. $1.25) and I am testing capsules of beetroot powder. They all seem to work.
Put some beets on your plate for dinner.
1. "The vascular endothelium plays a crucial role in the physiology of blood vessels and the pathological processes of atherosclerotic disease and acute coronary syndromes. Endothelial dysfunction is the core problem; it is an impairment of endothelium-dependent vasorelaxation caused by a loss of nitric oxide activity in the vessel wall, which results in impairment in the regulation of vascular homeostasis."—Nat'l Library of Medicine
Beets have some secrets that should interest you, especially if you happen to have elevated blood pressure. I have always generally liked beets but only put them in a salad every so often. Shoestring beets,that was about it. Then somewhere along the way I read that beets were good for lowering blood pressure. Hmmm, okay, that was interesting. But I felt my BP was good, so no concerns. My systolic was 130–135 and I had read that this was a good number for people 65+, so I accepted that. I confess that I also have been taking a low dose of something to control BP, and this had not been a particular point of conversation with my PCP.
Then I had a small wound on my Charcot foot! This required visits from nurses from Marshall every few days to check the healing progress. That involved a quick check of my vitals. A few visits later, they shoeed up with a sheet of info about prehypertension (systolic between 120 and 139.) I took the advice and read more about beets.
Beets bring nitric oxide[1] to the party! "Plants typically extract inorganic nitrates from the soil and their environment; inorganic nitrates are particularly abundant in the roots of beets." Here is a page of info from a study done in 2016.
I started eating beets every day. I found a brand called Love Beets that are cooked and ready to eat, prepared with no added anything (no sugar, no salt) and are so good it's hard to only eat one or two at and stop, to leave some for later. Within days my BP was down to 120 and often even lower! In the hospital I did not have access, amd for a few weeks I was back up around 130–139, biut now I'm back on track and am 115–120. Love beets are expensive relative to canned beets ($4 vs. $1.25) and I am testing capsules of beetroot powder. They all seem to work.
Put some beets on your plate for dinner.
1. "The vascular endothelium plays a crucial role in the physiology of blood vessels and the pathological processes of atherosclerotic disease and acute coronary syndromes. Endothelial dysfunction is the core problem; it is an impairment of endothelium-dependent vasorelaxation caused by a loss of nitric oxide activity in the vessel wall, which results in impairment in the regulation of vascular homeostasis."—Nat'l Library of Medicine
