Daily intake Bananas and Avocados can protect against heart disease

 

Avocado and Banana consumption daily may prevent hardening of the arteries that can result in heart disease and death according to Paul Sanders, professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. A recent study published in the journal JCI Insight, the team analysed mice who are at risk of heart disease when fed a high-fat analysed when those mice were given diets that are either low, normal or had high levels of potassium revealed their artery was substantially less hardening, suggesting dietary potassium may protect against heart disease and death from heart disease in humans.

The study conducted on mice showed foods that are rich in potassium reduces vascular calcification in both heart and kidney and can disrupt your body’s normal processes. A rich potassium diet reduces the risk of aortic stiffness, which can result in the heart pumping blood with more pressure.

Foods that are rich in potassium reduces vascular calcification  and for the first time, researchers have shown that reduced dietary potassium promotes elevated aortic stiffness in a mouse model, as compared to normal potassium-fed mice.

Yabing Chen PhD, UAB professor of pathology and Research Career Scientist explored this mechanism of Vascular disease three ways: living mice fed diets that varied in potassium, mouse artery cross-sections studied in culture medium with varying concentrations of potassium and mouse vascular smooth muscle cells grown in culture medium.