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.
