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Shireen Kassam, Visiting Professor, Health and Wellbeing Research Group, University of Winchester

Eating a handful of nuts each day is linked with lower risk of high blood pressure, our research shows

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More than 1.4 billion people worldwide live with high blood pressure (hypertension). It’s the single biggest metabolic risk factor for early death – driving diseases such as heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure and dementia.

Most of these cases of high blood pressure are shaped by how we live and what we eat. This means that making changes to your diet can have a big impact on your risk of developing high blood pressure.

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