Simple foods that can prevent heart attack and stroke

Research by scientists from Edith Cowan University (Australia) shows that there are superfoods from simple vegetables that can very effectively prevent dangerous vascular pathologies, including heart attacks and strokes.

Australian scientists spoke about the existence of “simple superfoods”, appealing to data from a research project involving 684 elderly women.

Researchers state :”People who consume more cruciferous vegetables show a reduced risk of clinical manifestations of cardiovascular diseases, such as heart attack or stroke.”

Crucifers are a family of leafy vegetable plants that includes various types of cabbage. Scientists claim that broccoli, cauliflower, and ordinary white cabbage have an excellent ability to prevent heart attacks and strokes.

It was found that their consumption effectively resists the development of a dangerous state of calcification of vascular tissue, which hardens the walls of blood vessels and arteries. Such stiffness prevents them from adequately expanding under the pressure of blood flow, provoking dangerous complications of blood circulation, including hypertension, atherosclerosis and the already mentioned heart attacks and strokes.

Doctors have established: in women who ate more than 1 .5 ounces (about 50 grams) of cruciferous vegetables was 46 percent less likely to develop calcification of the aorta, the main vessel that carries blood away from the heart, than in those who did not eat them.

One component, which is abundantly contained in these simple superfoods, is vitamin K. according to researchers, it is its high concentration that helps to suppress the process of calcium accumulation, which makes blood vessels stiff. deposits and calcium, reducing blood flow throughout the body, preventing its normal flow to the heart and brain. We are not saying that the only vegetables we should eat are cruciferous vegetables. Every day for general good health and well-being you need to eat a wide variety of vegetables. But you shouldn't leave the diet without cabbage,” the authors of the project summarized.