Top 10 Natural Foods that Help Reduce Risk of High Blood Pressure

High blood pressure has  a lot to do with your diet and lifestyle. So besides reducing your sodium intake it's important you check what you eat. And that's where we come in. 

Healthy eating can play an essential role in warding off high blood pressure. But many fear that a blood-pressure-lowering diet involves bland, unseasoned foods and deprivation. That's far from the truth.

Here's a list of 10 foods that are easy to find, delicious, nourishing, healthy, can lower your blood pressure and reduce the risk of heart disease.

• Banana : These portable, easy-peel fruits aren't just sweet and low in sodium; they're also rich in potassium which helps lower blood pressure. To incorporate more bananas into your diet- add it to your cereal, cake, bread, smoothies and milkshakes. Or try grilling or sauteing banana halves, then top it with a scoop of frozen yogurt.

Tomatoes May Help Fight Inflammation And Decrease Risk of Liver Cancer

The researchers said that this could be due to the potential beneficial effects of other nutrients in a whole tomato, such as vitamin E, vitamin C, folate, minerals, phenolic compounds and dietary fibres.

Eating tomatoes could be associated with a decreased risk of liver cancer caused by high-fat diets, revealed a latest study. The study said that tomatoes are rich in lycopene- a strong antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer agent- adding them to your diet may help reduce risk of fatty liver disease, inflammation and liver cancer development.  The study conducted on mice was published in the journal Cancer Prevention Research.

Asuu: Lecturers resume strike!

The Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU, Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aliero, KSUSTA, chapter, has concluded arrangement to resume its suspended strike.

The union chapter said it would continue the strike until its pending issues were addressed by the State Government.