Are you worried about something? Pop a few walnuts! Really! A new study from Penn State University shows that the nuts can lower your blood pressure and help you fight stress. The researchers found that including walnuts and walnut oil in the diet of their participants lowered their resting blood pressure and their blood pressure responses to stress. It’s amazing that adding walnuts to your diet could do this. Incidentally, are you curious how they tested blood pressure responses? The team did it in two ways. First they gave each participant a topic to write a three-minute speech on. They were given only two minutes to write the speech and then their presentation was video-taped! Stressful indeed! The second test was to submerge one foot in ice-cold water! Through-out these tests, blood pressure readings were taken. The results showed that the blood pressure was significantly reduced when the participants were including walnuts and walnut oil in their diet for a six week period. Maybe it sounds “nutty”, but apparently it works! Eating walnuts to reduce blood pressure . . . it’s a good thing!
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