How van you advocate no alcohol, when study after study that comes out draws a correlation between one to two drinks a day and better outcomes for heart disease and atheroschlerosis?

Alvin Hopkinson, Health Guide

7/ 1/08 10:35pm

Hi,

 

Thanks for the comment!

 

I am not saying that you can't take alcohol at all. What I am referring is that you should not consume alcohol actively or binging on it, whether it's is red wine, beer etc.It's definitely bad for your health.

 

Maybe the article belows will help:

http://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20050418/both-beer-red-wine-raise-blood-pressure

 

Regards,

Alvin

 

 

This is mostly shallow nonsense.

Yes you can cut down salt.  If you look at studies, you will see that a 3% improvement in systolic BP is about what you can achieve with pretty severe restriction.   Big deal.

Saturated fat?  Eat none?  There is no good science to support this.  Yes, don't eat trans fat.  But if you look for well designed studies of sat fat and actually read them, you will find that there is nothing wrong with it.  Epidemiological studies show no association between eating sat fat and mortality.  Diet studies have purported to show sat fat as bad, but they usually included high trans fat with the sat fat, confounding results.

To lower BP, get magnesium and potassium.  If you are American and reading this, I bet you a dollar you fall 30% or more short of the RDA for each (420mg per day magnesium and 4700mg per day potassium).  Supplements are OK for magnesium (not all -- do your homework), although magnesium oil (topical) is very effective.  Potassium is not so easy to supplement, so eat potassium rich foods (try lite salt, 50% sodium chloride and 50% potassium chloride). 

I have no financial interest in anything relating to this post.  My BP is 110/62.