Can High Blood Pressure Make You Fat?

Can High Blood Pressure Make You Fat?

So, a commonly asked question that overweight people find themselves asking is, can lowering my high blood pressure truly help me shed weight? Research suggests that lowering blood pressure can indeed lead to succeeding at weight loss. And now you may think, well how? Good question, let’s find out why.
Well the reason in which high blood pressure may cause you to be fat is because high blood pressure causes too much insulin to be in your blood. This in return causes you to gain weight. When an insulin resistant person eats, the glucose that emerges in the bloodstream causes the release of more insulin than is needed. The result of this is an increase in hunger and the desire for carbohydrates, increases the number and size of fat cells, and prevents the body from removing stored energy from muscle and fat tissues.
Now you’re probably asking, ok? Now that I know what causes the weight gain, how can I stop it? Reducing insulin to normal levels often corrects high blood pressure. This can be done by both diet and exercise. Another strange way is actually by cutting carbohydrates and eating more fats. A   great and tasty way to do this is by eating chocolate. Dirk Taubert, MD, PhD, and colleagues at the University of Cologne, Germany, in the The Journal of the American Medical Association tested a group of six men and women. They did this every day for two weeks, they ate a 100-gram candy bar and were asked to balance its 480 calories by not eating other foods similar in nutrients and calories. Half the patients got dark chocolate and half got white chocolate. The ones who ate dark chocolate had a significant drop in blood pressure (by an average of 5 points for systolic and an average of 2 points for diastolic blood pressure). Those who ate white chocolate didn’t.
My personal reaction to these studies were astonishment because sometimes we eat stuff not even knowing how it negatively or positively affects us. And these article opened my eyes to how dark chocolate...