Health benefits of strawberries

Regulating Blood Pressure

High salt diets mean that there are very high levels of sodium in the body. Some negative effects of sodium include encouraging the body to hold on to excess fluid which burdens the heart, increasing the risk of heart failure, osteoporosis, stomach cancer and kidney disease, and severely increasing blood pressure.
Strawberries are a ‘medium source’ of potassium (153mg per 100g), which can help to regulate blood pressure by mediating against the negative effects of sodium.

Reducing Stress

Somewhat surprisingly, strawberries can be really good for relieving stress and irritability. This is particularly important nowadays when 59% adults say their lives are more stressful than they were 5 years ago, and nearly 250,000 people in the UK were diagnosed with work-related stress (Labour Force Survey, 2014).
Stress is negative not only because of its own symptoms, but also because it can lead to other physical and mental health problems including heart disease and depression.
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