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HEART HEALTH
This month in Hypertension Journal, it was reported that you can lower your blood pressure by increasing protein variety in your diet! Diversity in diet (i.e. not eating the same foods every day) has been shown to have so many health benefits. In this study, getting your protein from a diversity of high protein foods was associated with lower blood pressure. Most people think that high protein foods are limited to your standard animal proteins like beef, pork, chicken, and fish. However, you can get your protein from legumes, whole grains like quinoa and oats, tofu and tempeh, plant-based milk, nuts and seeds, high protein veggies like broccoli,. See our protein cheat sheet to see how easy it is to get protein from plant foods. Read the article Here
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