{"id":11827,"date":"2011-08-02T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/vegetarian-diet-reduces-bp\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T17:21:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T17:21:18","slug":"vegetarian-diet-reduces-bp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/vegetarian-diet-reduces-bp\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetarian diet reduces BP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\"><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\" style=\"color: #990000; font-family: verdana; font-size: small; line-height: 20px;\"><b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-wfu6_L-Ssd4\/TfD0g8RTObI\/AAAAAAAAIcA\/NbIPiAq8FRs\/s1600\/DrKKAgarwal2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DrKKAgarwal2-1.jpg\" width=\"174\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\" style=\"color: #990000; font-family: verdana; line-height: 20px;\"><b><\/b><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\" style=\"font-family: verdana;\"><b><strong style=\"color: black; font-weight: bold;\"><i>Dr KK Aggarwal<\/i><\/strong><\/b><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\" style=\"font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;\"><b><strong style=\"color: black; font-weight: bold;\"><\/strong><strong style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">Padma Shri and Dr B C Roy National Awardee<\/strong><\/b><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\" style=\"font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;\"><b><b>President, Heart Care Foundation of India<\/b><\/b><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\" style=\"color: #990000; font-family: verdana; font-size: small; line-height: 20px;\"><b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\" style=\"font-family: verdana; font-size: small; line-height: 20px;\">Ingestion of a vegetarian diet may reduce systolic blood pressure by 5 mmHg and a 5 mm reduction in blood pressure reduces the risk of heart disease by 21%, said Padmashri and Dr B C Roy National Awardee&nbsp;<strong>Dr K K Aggarwal<\/strong>, President Heart Care Foundation of India and MTNL Perfect Health Mela.<\/p>\n<p>Also the high fiber content of the vegetarian diet may add to the BP lowering effects.<\/p>\n<p>A typical vegetarian\u2019s diet contains more potassium, complex carbohydrates, polyunsaturated fat, fiber, calcium, magnesium, vitamin C and vitamin A, all of which may have a favorable influence on blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Soy is another vegetarian item good for the heart. It is naturally high in potassium and low in sodium.<\/p>\n<p>Soy should be taken as an alternative protein source to unhealthy meats. Soy\u2013based meat is higher in fiber and lower in sodium. However soy does not contain the long\u2013chain omega\u20133 fatty acids that are found in fatty fish and shellfish.<\/p>\n<p>Soya is also good for the thyroid and post menopausal heart symptoms.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr KK Aggarwal Padma Shri and Dr B C Roy National Awardee President, Heart Care Foundation of India Ingestion of a vegetarian diet may reduce systolic blood pressure by 5 mmHg and a 5 mm reduction in blood pressure reduces the risk of heart disease by 21%, said Padmashri and Dr B C Roy National Awardee&nbsp;Dr K K Aggarwal, President Heart Care Foundation of India and MTNL Perfect Health Mela. Also the high fiber content of the vegetarian diet may add to the BP lowering effects. A typical vegetarian\u2019s diet contains more potassium, complex carbohydrates, polyunsaturated fat, fiber, calcium, magnesium, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,82,1,66],"tags":[80,65,108],"class_list":["post-11827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-inspiration","category-update","category-useful-informations","tag-health","tag-member-article","tag-tips","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45525,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827\/revisions\/45525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}