Women can easily reduce the risk of developing hypertension and the blood pressure if they drink milk that is fat free along with consuming more calcium and vitamin-D from the food sources, not from additional supplements.

A recently concluded research study published in the American Heart Association’s journal “Hypertension”, revealed this fact. According to the findings of this study, diets of more than 30,000 examined for women who were actually middle-aged and older.

Researchers at the ‘Harvard University’ observed that women who consumed more fat-free milk or low-fat milk and other milk products along with the diets rich in calcium and vitamin-D had more protection against any risk of hypertension and blood pressure.

Examining the advantages of consuming milk alone, the researchers observed that if women drank two or more servings of low-fat or fat-free milk every day then the risk of hypertension or blood pressure was reduced by almost 10% while in case of women who drank such type of milk for less than even a month the rate was comparatively higher to suffer from such health problems. Researchers found that these results cannot be replicated when tried with high-fat milk, other high fat milk products, and calcium and vitamin-D supplements.

In America, almost one in every three adults suffers from high blood pressure. Women even do not know that they are suffering from hypertension and their number is growing very fast.

A Similar study, which has been published in the journal “Circulation”, established this fact. During the previous decade, the number of cases of high blood pressure and hypertension has reached up to uncontrollable limit in case of women in entire United States. This problem has posed a great risk for all these women for developing other cardiovascular diseases, strokes, and kidney failure also.

There have been several researchers and many other attempts have been implemented pertaining to the dietary changes for controlling the blood pressure but on an average, “Americans are still missing the mark on their diets”, research says.

A new research study published in the ‘Archives of Internal Medicine’ indicates that the Americans generally try to ignore the “DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) Diet”. This “DASH-DIET” is a specific therapeutic eating plan recommended by the “National Heart Lung and Blood Institute” and it emphasizes on the intake of low-fat dairy, fruits and vegetables in order to bring down the levels of blood pressure.

Researchers also emphasized on linking the “DASH-DIET” with the low-fat or the fat-free milk for keeping the blood pressure under control. Because of this reason, the researchers say, the ‘U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans’ also impress upon drinking at least three glasses of low-fat or fat free milk every day. Three glasses of such type of milk is enriched with nine essential nutrients, including calcium, vitamin A, vitamin D, protein and potassium.

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