Can Strength Training Help Manage High Blood Pressure?
People with high blood pressure or hypertension are at risk for certain long-term complications. Early intervention can lower blood pressure and reduce someone’s risk for [...]
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8 Things That Could Give You High Blood Pressure
Let’s be real: You probably never think about your heart health. You’re young, you’re in shape, you eat mostly healthy. What’s there to worry about? [...]
What Are the Best (and Worst) Diets of 2017?
For the seventh year in a row, the DASH diet has been named the United States’ best diet overall by U.S. News & World Report in its annual rankings. The Mediterranean [...]
7 Ways to Lower Your Blood Pressure Naturally
High blood pressure affects about one in three adults for all kinds of reasons, from genetics to stress. While medications can help keep it in check, there are also ways to [...]
Low Salt? Think Again
From a public health perspective, salt shakers have been branded the equivalent of an ash tray, an instrument of ill health. Achtung baby. But a large study published [...]
How Sleep Loss Affects Your Heart
Sleeping for five hours a night alters your heart rate the next day Getting too little sleep has been shown to have bad effects on the heart, and many studies have linked it [...]
The Surprising Thing Linked to High Blood Pressure
Recently the scientific community has been abuzz about blood pressure, one of the most powerful contributors to heart disease. Doctors are actively debating how low blood [...]
The Great Salt Debate: How Much Sodium is Too Much for Your Diet?
Americans eat, on average, more than 3,400 milligrams of sodium each day — much more than the 2,300-mg current recommended limit for many people. But whether this amount [...]
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