Kiwi wins Apple: Three kiwi on cause reduction blood pressure by 3.6 millimeters of mercury, and lutein in papayas preventive effect on the dangerous disease.
If you regularly eat kiwi, kiwi one three times a day, then it will have a strong effect on lowering blood pressure, found a study on the University of Ohio respondents in the age of 55 years. High blood pressure is one of the risk factors for the occurrence of heart disease and a ‘killer’ number one in the world, explain the researchers.
At the week eight of the study, one group of people three of them eat a daily meals kiwi, while the other group were eating an apple every day. Those who ate the kiwi at the end of the study had lower systolic blood pressure by 3.6 millimeters of mercury than those who ate the apple.
Diastolic blood pressure was also lower in the group that ate kiwi, and scientists believe that the kiwi has a marked antioxidant effect and is abundant in lutein, which has a major role in protecting heart health .