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Nutrition Facts with Dr. Greger

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The Effects of Lemon Juice on Blood Pressure

The average American has what's called pre-hypertension which means the top number of your blood pressure between 120 and 139 not yet hypertension which starts at 140. The group here in the standard American diet was on average overweight with BMI over 26 still better than most Americans but while the vegans were a trim 21 they you know that's 36 pounds lighter so maybe the only reason those eating meat eggs daring processed junk had such higher blood pressure because they were overweight may the diet per se had nothing to do with it.

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