According to a study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, tomatoes and tomato-based products may help prevent and control high blood pressure. Because potassium counteracts the effects of salt on the body, it is believed to help lower blood pressure. Potassium is rich in tomatoes and other nightshade vegetables. Additionally, they are necessary for many diets that support heart health. According to Rosa Maria Lamuela-Raventos, PharmD, head of the University of Barcelona's Institute for Research on Nutrition and Food Safety and co-author of the study, "tomatoes are one of the most consumed, widely available, and affordable vegetables worldwide," she told Health. "They play a significant role in some of the healthiest diets, such as the Mediterranean diet." Daily tomato diets included eating raw tomatoes or meals made with tomatoes, such as tomato sauce and gazpacho, a chilled Spanish tomato soup. Four groups (number of tomatoes ingested b...
U.S. food handling authorities are encouraging shoppers not to eat specific melon items, including some organic product cups, because of the gamble of sickness as they examine a deteriorating flare-up of salmonella contaminations. The quantity of revealed contaminations has almost significantly increased in the fourteen days since the Food and Medication Organization and the Places for Infectious prevention and Counteraction reported the flare-up, which seems, by all accounts, to be connected to Malichita or Rudy brand melons. Somewhere around 117 individuals in 34 states have become ill from the microbes, the CDC said in a report on Monday. Somewhere around 61 of them have been hospitalized and two have passed on. Canada is additionally exploring the episode. As of Nov. 24, wellbeing authorities in the nation had affirmed 63 cases across five areas. No less than 17 people had been hospitalized and one had kicked the bucket. The CDC exhorts against eating any melon or melon item that m...