Manage Your Blood Pressure: Mind Your Minerals
Several minerals may be just as important as salt in regulating blood pressure. Scientists are pretty sure that one mineral--potassium--can be used to help lower blood pressure. Exactly what role the other two--calcium and magnesium--play in the ... [... more]
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Manage Your Blood Pressure: Ways to Lighten Up
Get tips for losing weight and managing your blood pressure. Start a food diary and record not just what you eat, but when and why you eat. Overeating is often triggered not by hunger, but by stress and emotions. You may eat to calm your nerves ... [... more]
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Manage Your Blood Pressure: The Shakedown on Salt
To salt or not to salt? That is the question for people with high blood pressure. And, until recently, there was no clear answer from the medical community. Some people were directed by their doctors to lose the sodium; others could go ahead and ... [... more]
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Manage Your Blood Pressure: Counting Calories
Learn how burning more calories can help you lower your blood pressure. The recipe for parting with pounds has been the same since the first Neanderthal noticed he had love handles: You need to eat fewer calories than you burn. You don't need to ... [... more]
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Manage Your Blood Pressure: The Weight-ing Game
Learn how maintaining a healthy BMI will help you avoid high blood pressure. Know your numbers--maintaining a healthy BMI will help you avoid high blood pressure. A few years ago, Americans got an unpleasant jolt when the National Heart, Lung, ... [... more]
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Best Foods to Beat High Blood Pressure
Your blood pressure used to be high if it topped 140/90. Not anymore: New medical guidelines say it should be under 120/80. That means nearly half of adults have a blood pressure problem. Your blood pressure used to be high; if it topped 140/90. ... [... more]
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Lowering Blood Pressure
You can't see it, you can't feel it, and unless you get checked, you won't even know you have it. That makes high blood pressure, or hypertension, a quiet killer, one that slowly damages your blood vessels, heart, and eyes while simultaneously ... [... more]
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