Chicken Soup For The Blood Pressure
Written by WTJ on October 18, 2008 – 1:05 am -
“Chicken Soup for the Soul” is one of my favourite book series. It was the book title “chicken soup” that got my attention as I am a chicken soup lover. I was curious what kind of chicken soup recipe that can affect human soul, so I bought one, and I was addicted and bought more.
However a report which will be published in Oct. 22 issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry suggests that chicken soup will not save your soul, but may lower your blood pressure. Chicken soup is one of the most popular soup cook by many family in this world as it is believed that chicken soup has many nutritional values. Japanese researchers at the Nippon Meat Packers Inc.’s Research and Development Center found that collagen proteins in chicken may lower blood pressure. The collagens will act as ACE inhibitors that act like the blood pressure medications. Although chicken may have the potential to control blood pressure, the additional stuffs we added to the chicken soup, such as salt, can bring the opposite effects.
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Tags: ACE inhibitors, Ai Saiga, blood pressure, chicken, chicken soup, collagen, collagen protein, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Nippon Meat Packers Inc. | 1 Comment »
October 18th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Hehe good illustration of “chicken soup’. Am a big fan of their books too:)