{"id":2982,"date":"2014-09-16T18:31:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T23:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2982"},"modified":"2014-09-17T16:14:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T21:14:44","slug":"got-milk-for-your-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/got-milk-for-your-blood-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Got milk for your blood pressure?<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Eating at least 2 portions of dairy products a day is linked to lower blood glucose and lower blood pressure\u00a0according to\u00a0a new study. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers asked a total of 254 healthy participants from the greater Quebec City metropolitan area to fill out a food frequency questionnaire and took blood samples from them. The study showed that nearly half (45%) of the participants did not meet Canada\u2019s Food Guide recommendations of at least 2 portions of dairy products a day. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The authors are calling\u00a0for further research to establish the health effects of eating more dairy products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrcresearchpress.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1139\/apnm-2014-0154\" target=\"_blank\">Original\u00a0research paper<\/a><\/span> published in\u00a0the\u00a0journal\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism\u00a0<\/span>on\u00a0<strong>September 16, 2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"single_highlight_class searchToken\">Iwona<\/span> <span class=\"single_highlight_class searchToken\">Rudkowska,\u00a0CHU de Qu\u00e9bec Research Center, Quebec<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eating at least 2 portions of dairy products a day is linked to lower blood glucose and lower blood pressure\u00a0according to\u00a0a new study. Researchers asked a total of 254 healthy participants from the greater Quebec City metropolitan area to fill out a food frequency questionnaire and took blood samples from them. The study showed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[51,650,476,849],"class_list":["post-2982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-health","tag-nutrition","tag-public-health","tag-quebec-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-M6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2982"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3007,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions\/3007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}