One out of every five adults has high blood pressure (hypertension). If you're among them, one of the first recommendations your physician probably gave you was to cut back on salt. Yet, there's far more to maintaining a healthy blood pressure than eating a low-salt diet – a strategy that works for some people and fails for others. In fact, fewer than half of with high blood pressure have their condition under control, and perhaps this is because conventional physicians have been focused on the "wrong white crystals," namely salt instead of sugar.
One of the primary underlying causes of high blood pressure is related to your body producing too much insulin and leptin in response to a high-carbohydrate (i.e. high sugar) and processed food diet. "Evidence from epidemiological studies and experimental trials in animals and humans suggests that added sugars, particularly fructose, may…
