Why Processed Foods May Be Secretly Raising Your Blood Pressure Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Common phosphate additives that keep your packaged foods fresh and flavorful may be driving up your blood pressure, a recent study has found. Daisy Daisy/Shutterstock The study, conducted in laboratory rats over 12 weeks, revealed that inorganic phosphates may contribute to hypertension by stimulating the release of a chemical called fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23). How Food Preservatives Raise Blood Pressure Researchers discovered that high-phosphate diets cause a specific protein called FGF23 to accumulate in the blood and then cross… — Continue at ZeroHedge News : Read More
