Beet juice, beet juice, beet juice...

In what would be part of an onslaught of research supporting natural medications, if only our powers that be allotted equal funding for natural substances instead of nearly all for synthetic pharmaceuticals, it has been scientifically determined that beet juice (from the roots) is able to reliably lower blood pressure within twenty four hours. Not only that, the higher the initial blood pressure, the greater is the decrease in blood pressure effected by the beet juice.

While is has been hypothesized that the nitrate component within the beet juice is the cause of lowered blood pressure (think nitroglycerine tablets), because beets contain far more nutrition than does any prescription med we gain immeasurably by eating (drinking) beets instead of reflexively downing yet another pill. Whenever we can prove that 'our foods are our medicines and our medicines our foods', it takes us one more step toward the understanding that most illness is preventable without the aid of modern allopathic medicine. The latter is great for emergency care and acute illness, but atrocious for chronic ailments and preventive medicine. For these latter categories, which makes up both the vast majority of illness as well as the route to preventing this illness, look to natural (naturopathic) medicine. Your bodymind will thank you...and likely for a long, long time.

Please share this beet juice article with your friends:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100628161123.htm

as well as the initial research published in "Hypertension" magazine, February 2010:

http://hyper.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/51/3/617

'Whatever it takes' to get us to eat, and to overall act, more and more healthfully!