If you can’t or don’t want to drink wine, eat grapes instead; an animal study indicates that
grapes may help lower blood pressure and signs of heart muscle damage, and improve heart function.
The researchers studied the effect of regular table grapes (a blend of green, red, and black grapes) that were mixed into the rat diet in a powdered form, as part of either a high- or low-salt diet. They performed many comparisons between the rats consuming the test diet and the control rats receiving no grape powder — including some that received a mild dose of a common blood-pressure drug. …read more