Eat Up: Breakfasts That Can Lower Blood Pressure (VIDEO)

The typical poster child for a "complete" breakfast -- bacon, hash browns, eggs and cheese, for instance, or a stack of buttery pancakes -- certainly aren't pictures of health. But you can make that first meal of the day work for you.

"How about a triple dose of blood pressure reduction in a breakfast bowl?" Dr. David Katz, HuffPost blogger and director founder of Yale University's Prevention Research Center asked in this video with Prevention magazine. "Food can be a powerful part of the formula to keep blood pressure down."

In fact, the combination of certain every day foods can be almost as powerful as blood pressure medications, according to some scientific findings. Get his recipe below.

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[DavidMG]

04:42 PM on 08/06/2011

the cookbook, the Good Breakfast Book has lots of great healthy recipies

[Anthony Pierre]

10:56 AM on 07/22/2011

sausage bacon eggs and coffee and your heart disease risk goes down. Don't listen to the establishment that is anti fat/cholesterol. Your body needs this. it doesn't need sugar.

[GretchenMann]

10:27 AM on 07/21/2011

Before you go to bed, throw some steel-cut oats in a slow cooker with water. Cook on low for about 6 hours. In the AM, you have some nice oatmeal. I like to eat it with berries (always organic) and almond "milk". Mmmmmmmm

[eric14]

03:18 PM on 07/18/2011

Nice video. Thanks.

[Chuck Bluestein]

07:27 PM on 06/25/2011

Eating certain foods can make a big difference. Besides eating foods high in potassium, people need to eat less sodium by cutting down on salt they add or foods high in salt. Salt is not a food. A teaspoon of salt has more sodium than the sodium in over 100 pounds of natural (no salt added) food. All the cells have a potassium-sodium pump and this pump does not work right with high sodium and low potassium. This is why webmd says that cutting salt is as good as quitting smoking for heart health. http://bit.ly/eNmtca

[chamberwindow]

05:07 PM on 06/09/2011

I lowered my blood pressure into the healthy range in a week. It was 150/95! I'm 23 and I was a vegan since I was 20 (stopped to do low carb with . The top number doesn't go above 115 now and I eat tons of salt. I have been eating salted butter, and all of that stuff. I add salt to all of my meals. I lowered my blood pressure by eating salt. Weird, huh?

[Chuck Bluestein]

04:41 PM on 06/26/2011

When more than one condition is altered then you cannot know what condition is responsible for the change. Like if someone becomes a construction worker and starts eating pudding and their muscles get bigger, then they may say that eating pudding made their mucles bigger! You said "was a vegan." Vegan has nothing to do with the amount of salt that one consumes. You also said "(stopped to do low carb with." I do not know what you mean to say there.

But it sounds like you made big changes in your diet. It sounds like (from the above) you had a deficiency in one or more vitamins or other nutrients. A vegan can eat a healthy balanced diet or a terribly unhealthy diet. A vegan diet is a more restricted diet than normal so they have more of a chance of a deficiency and need to makes sure to eat certain foods or take certain supplements. For example most people get their omega-3 essential fatty acids (this lowers blood pressure) from fish.

If you are not eating fish then to get enough of it, without getting too much omega-6, you need to eat either purslane, flaxseed, chia seeds, blue-green algae or take a supplement. It is common for people to eat fish but how many people normally eat flaxseed, chia seeds, blue-green algae or purslane (a green)? Fish get the omega-3 from eating algae.

[Mickey Markoff]

11:31 AM on 06/09/2011

I'll have to look into that DASH diet. Anything that bypasses chemicals has to be the better alternative.

[Terri Lorz]

12:48 PM on 06/08/2011

Thanks - I loved your ideas. Terri Jo Lorz

[BROKE6STRING]

01:13 AM on 06/08/2011

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[libwingoflibwing]

12:06 AM on 06/08/2011

Here's my healthy breakfast:

A stalk of celery
A half of cup of blueberries
A few ounces of lean turkey meat
A fresh orange
Water, water, everywhere and all of it to drink

I get protein, lots of nutrients and so much fiber that I feel full for hours.

[roselinck]

10:22 PM on 06/07/2011

Unless that cereal is organic, does NOT have wheat, no soy and is Nature's Path or some other good organic brand, SKIP THOSE CRAPPY PROCESSED CEREALS!!! The bananas and berries are terrific. And milk???????? Sometime back in the 1950's the Milk Council convinced everyone that drinking milk was good for you, just as Monsanto has convinced everyone soy should go in everything on this planet. Unless you are getting pure raw milk from the cow, forget that too. I'm amazed a doctor could give such lunkheaded advice...but then again...I guess I'm not.

[Foday]

03:17 AM on 06/08/2011

Too many doctors look like they are programmed to say the same thing over and over just like you pointed out here about milk. The research will show that milk and diary products are not healthy for men as it can cause prostate cancer. I agree with you about berries. What I do is putting several different fruits (apples, peaches, pears, blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, bananas, and greens as well as add galic and ginger in a powerful blender (1800 watts) and blend them to make smoothies then drink it and that will keep me going all day with real energy. And, no I do not put in milk but fresh oranges. Its easy to do and keep healthy. On my physical my doctors were shocked to see how very healthy I was with BP gone and I am no longer going to see the doctor other than for physical.

[pranalisa]

05:51 PM on 06/26/2011

this article is misleading and incorrect. NO processed cereal, organic or not, is healthy:

http://editor.nourishedmagazine.com.au/articles/puffed-grains-should-we-eat-them

Processing ANY grain denatures the proteins and fats in a way that render them very unhealthy for consumption. Also, some people have problems metabolizing the lectins found in most grains. Also, conventional milk is a food humans do NOT need nor are meant to consume. This article is mainstream, standard American diet, potentially harmful information. I am disappointed that it is even published and that many people will read it as the "truth".

Sure, this breakfast may be a big improvement over what many people eat for breakfast, however, there's MANY other examples that could've been used.

Dairy? Organic Greek yogurt or cottage cheese IF the person can handle dairy. Or some almond milk.

Fruit? bananas, blueberries are awesome..organic, especially w the berries.

Cereal? If one can handle grains...soaked steel cut oats cook up quickly...I soak overnight, cook for a few minutes in the morn...add about a 1/2 c of berries, 1/2 banana, scoop of Greek yogurt, and a few walnut halves that have also soaked overnight.

Perfect breakfast...and naturally supportive of healthy blood pressure levels.

Also, in order to metabolize nutrients, healthy fats need to be consumed...didn't see any of these above. I like walnuts...some flax or chia seeds would put some omega 3s into the diet.

[Chuck Pope]

09:45 PM on 06/07/2011

BS, anything you get out of a box isn't good for you or your heart. Fresh foods and oatmeal have been proven to lower your risk for heart problems. But leave the flakes for the flakes because you may as well eat the box, it would be better for you than what the put in them.

[Foday]

03:21 AM on 06/08/2011

Chuck, you got it. With all that sugar in the box you can't really expect to be healthy if you are going to be living on the breakfast in boxes. Yes, Oatmeal is excellent! People should be taking the time for their health and do research instead of the quack or so called diet. This is how those in the writing of diet books, business, etc are getting rich from the ignorance of many

[pranalisa]

05:57 PM on 06/26/2011

http://editor.nourishedmagazine.com.au/articles/puffed-grains-should-we-eat-them

[Pete59]

05:56 PM on 06/07/2011

Cut out the mouth wash, eat food rich in potassium and nitrates, and get some vitamin d.