Drinking cranberry juice may help lower blood pressure

In this article, researchers demonstrate that drinking low-calorie cranberry juice may help lower your blood pressure. There are two issues I would like to point out in this study.

One, the subjects are all healthy, i.e. they do not suffer hypertension.

Two,  I would not call dropping of blood pressure values from an average of 121/73 mmHg to 118/70 mmHg significant. I can do better than that with only 10 minutes meditation. With one hour gardening, I can almost always drop my blood pressure from borderline high (just below 140/90 to below 130/85).

Criticism aside, I still think it is a good idea to drink cranberry juice (only the ones you make yourself with a juicer). Nobody really knows how much antioxidant is left with processed juice (check out how orange juice is made). Processed means all of the ready-made juices bought from the store.

Tofu

Tofu is made by coagulating soymilk. It has been eaten for its high protein content for at least two thousand years in Asia. It is popular among vegetarians for the completeness of soy protein (it is the only plant protein that contains all the essential amino acid for humans).

Even though the health benefits of tofu consumption are controversial, researchers have shown that tofu intake reduces cancer risk.