18 Feb 2014

Grapes protect the health of the heart with metabolic syndrome


New study suggests that eating grapes may help protect heart health in people who suffer from metabolic syndrome.

The metabolic syndrome is a set of conditions occur together is to increase blood pressure and high blood sugar and excess fat around the waist or lower cholesterol and increase good blood triglycerides. All these factors increase the risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes.

Researchers have noted a decline in the main risk factors for heart disease in men metabolic syndrome patients who ate the grapes are heavy, such as lower blood pressure and improve blood flow and reduce inflammation. Scientists have attributed it to the contents of normal grapes, known as polyphenols.

In this study, by researchers from the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Connecticut was divided among respondents aged between 30 and 70 years old who suffer from metabolic syndrome into two groups randomly.

The group took the first grapes in the form of grape powder freeze-dried for four weeks, while the second group dealt with powder similar in shape and color and taste, but it is not made of grapes.

Response was compared to each person to address the grape powder or the alternative, after three weeks of stopping eating the two groups for both treatments. The researchers found that eating grapes dramatically reduces blood pressure and improves blood flow to the heart and reduces the content associated with inflammation.

Little it is known that grapes protects heart health, but this is the first study about the influence of the vine on the metabolic syndrome.

Source: Web Biologist


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