Purple Potatoes Lower Blood Pressure in Overweight People

February 3, 2012, 6:22 am by WebMD

When overweight people included two servings of purple potatoes a day in their diet for a month, they not only reduced their blood pressure, but they also didn't gain weight in the process, a small study shows.

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