A safe (and tasty) way to lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels!

Before you start popping blood-pressure pills or statins, maybe you should try popping peanuts instead.

A Purdue University study of 151 men and women has found that eating peanuts daily for 12 weeks caused diastolic blood pressure to drop significantly in all participants.

Those with high blood pressure did best during the first two weeks. And the results were the same for those who ate both salted and unsalted nuts. (They also did slightly better than those who ate the spicy and honey-roasted kinds).

What’s more, total serum cholesterol and triglycerides were reduced in people who had high levels at the start of the study.

Experts think the blood-pressure drop is due to a substance called arginine, which peanuts have more of than any other whole food — or nut.

But, unless you’re allergic to them, the best part is that peanuts have no side effects. And compared to prescription meds, they cost, well, peanuts.

Sources:

“Daily peanut consumption decreases blood pressure and cholesterol regardless of flavoring, according to new study” Health and nutrition research, The Peanut Institute, peanut-institute.org