Proteins from peas may reduce heart pressure and help reduce kidney disease?http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5032707/Proteins-from-garden-pea-may-help-fight-high-blood-pressure-and-kidney-disease.html
Posted by Ebenezer
This is really amazing news.
"What we seem to have here is sort of a natural approach to treating this disease, as opposed to the normal pharmacological approach," said the study's lead author, Rotimi E. Aluko, an associate professor in the department of human nutritional sciences at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. "We're talking about an edible product, not a drug, which can help to reduce blood pressure and, at the same time, reduce the severely negative impact of kidney disease."
Despite the positive findings, the researchers do not advocate the ad hoc consumption of yellow green peas. They explained that a complex protein purification process is needed to activate what is otherwise a dormant vegetable benefit.
The pea protein would need to be mixed with certain enzymes into a food additive or nutritional supplement in liquid or pill form. In that form, Aluko said, it might be easier to tolerate than blood pressure drugs, given the pea protein's natural sourcing. A natural treatment, he said, would also eliminate the risk for overdosing.
He said that human trials are underway and that, if successful, a pea-based therapy might be available in two to three years.
Dr. George Bakris, director of the hypertensive diseases unit at the University of Chicago, described the finding as "fascinating."
"This is not the first time that the secret to blood pressure control has been found in Mother Nature," Bakris noted. "Ten years ago, a substance was isolated in celery, for example, that also had a controlling effect. But here what they seem to have shown is that there is a substance in this pea, when cleaved, which works in a similar fashion to the ACE inhibitors that have been out for the last 25 years. So basically, they have a natural substance that works like standard drugs we know a lot about."
http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/03/22/protein-from-yellow-peas-may-lower-blood-pressure.html
I wonder if I should invest in a yellow pea farm?
Posted by Aryana
Depends on the kind of peas. There're snow, green and garden, which is in particular, peas to name some. Some peas are low in protein and other nutrients that can be found in other kind of peas. Garden peas may have this qualities since protein and fiber is high. Protein and fiber may help reduce cholesterol and CKDs (chronic kidney Disease).
Our body is such a wonderful efficient complex machine that it balance and cope with it's intake, food. Whatever you take in it always reacts, good or bad. Bad if everything is excessive/deprived.
Posted by swami
"Peas have long been recognised as a superfood containing protein, dietary fibre, and vitamins wrapped in a low-fat, cholesterol-free package.
But new research shows for the first time that concentrating extracts from the pea can have dramatic affect on blood pressure and chronic kidney disease (CKD)."
I eat peas, I eat snap peas, I eat all kinds of peas, and they haven't made a lick of difference to my BP.
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