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Beet Juice may be the answer?- Dr harold Gunatillake   If you are down, not very energetic lately and has high blood pressure, you may do well with a glass of beet juice every morning. Check your blood pressure, delay taking the morning dose of anti-hypertensive tablets by a few hours, drink a glass of beet juice. Re check your blood pressure two hours later and you will be surprised to notice that your BP has dropped by about 5 mmHg on the BP monitor. How can this happen? Beetroot has remarkably high nitrate levels, and it is a vaso-dilator, meaning relaxes the smooth muscles in your arteries and lowers the left ventricular force, thus lowering the BP. It benefits your cardiovascular health and may protect against cancer. ...