Cooking-oil combo may improve blood pressure

Reinforcing the role nutrition plays in heart health, new research suggests that cooking with a combination of sesame oil and rice bran oil can lower mild to moderately high blood pressure.

A small study conducted in New Delhi, India, found that hypertensive adults who added roughly 1.25 ounces of a rice bran/sesame oil mixture to their daily diet experienced a drop in blood pressure nearly equivalent to that experienced by those taking a standard calcium-channel blocker blood pressure medication alone.

And those who consumed both the oil mixture and their blood pressure medication saw a blood pressure drop more than twice that of those taking the drug alone.

The oil combination also seemed to lower so-called “bad” (LDL) cholesterol and raise “good” (HDL) cholesterol, the researchers reported. This cholesterol profile improvement was not found among those taking a medication alone.

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