The latest news about chicken meat is making committed vegetarians yell “foul” as it suggests eating chicken soup may help in lowering high blood pressure. In contrast, many whose diet routinely features chicken meat are happy to find some more health benefits from fowl meat. While the two groups may be divided over the report’s implications, hypertension patients are planning to include a bowl or two of chicken soup in their daily diet. The reactions were triggered by a report from a Japanese team of researchers that said chicken breast provides significant amounts of collagen proteins which work like ACE inhibitors. Read the rest of this story »