As you already know, when you visit your doctor and discover that your blood pressure is high, they will prescribe medication to you, and tell you to lower your salt intake. Most people are aware that blood pressure medications have side effects, but they do not know alternative ways of controlling high blood pressure. Being […]
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Hypertension Prevention and Treatment
Gerald Silva of Jackson couldn’t believe it. Dr. Neal at the Jackson Central Clinic broke the bad news. He had arterial hypertension. Gerald had a good excuse. After all, as an executive, he certainly had his share of stress. And, let’s not even talk about the cigarette smoking. According to Dr. Neal just being male […]
Negativity in the Office is Today’s Version of Hawthorne’s "Scarlet Letter"
How do you look at life? How you do determine the biases of what you think and feel as well as how you act. Some people tend to look negatively at life and conjure up worst-case scenarios for the consequences of nearly every situation. They see bad events all around them. Pessimism pervades their very […]
My Atkins Diet Story
aka how one Iowa guy lost over 200 pounds and gained his life back. I can not say enough about how positively the Atkins Diet and low carb in general has been for me. I went from a 429 pound guy who could barely make it up a flight steps to a guy running half […]
How to Lower Your Blood Pressure With a Towel – Clinically Proven Method
You’ve seen those “stress balls” – the ones that stockbrokers always seem to have on their desks? Interestingly, there are actually a number of clinical studies that show that those squishy “stress balls” aren’t just good for stress – they can also help you permanently lower your blood pressure. It’s a type of exercise known […]
Natural Substitutes For Beta Blockers
Beta-Adrenergic Blockers are medicines that are used for patients with high blood pressure. But like any other medicine even these have various adverse effects and that is why people as well the doctors and scientists are now looking for natural replacements and substitutes of these beta blockers. For instance, people who have asthma are not […]
The Best Women Health Supplements
Modern women live a hectic lifestyle and sometimes too busy to even stay healthy. Busy people tend to be forgetful and important things like how to stay healthy seems to be overlooked. With this fact, the industry of health supplements take this opportunity to target busy women and remind them to think about health once […]
How to Get a Lean Body Fast!
A good way to get lean is to increase exercise, build more muscle to help you burn more calories and raise your normal metabolic rate. This helps to keep your body in good condition and it helps to motivate you to lose weight. In order to get a lean body we need to burn more […]
Blood Pressure – What is Happening to My Body to Cause the Systolic & Diastolic Pressures to Change?
Getting our blood pressure helps a lot in keeping ahead of the functions of our heart. Did you know that hypertension characterized by a high pressure of blood is usually undetected and the reason why many people do not know they have heart problems until it is too late to reverse the damages? This is […]
Automatic Blood Pressure Monitor
Many people must monitor their pressure on a daily basis. It can be difficult to get an accurate reading if you are not properly trained to take these measurements. Most do not have access to someone that knows how to properly take a pressure reading. An automatic blood pressure monitor can help you with this. […]
Magnesium and High Blood Pressure – A Real Issue!
The words of Linus Pauling enforces the seriousness of this article on Magnesium and high blood pressure. Twice a Nobel Prize winner, he once said, “You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.” How often have you read that statement? 10 times, 50 times, 100 times? But who’s taking […]
B-Complex Vitamins
Vitamin B used to be considered a single vitamin, like Vitamin C or D. Later findings showed that it actually consists of chemically complex and distinct vitamins that happen to have very similar properties. So today, the term ‘vitamin B-complex’ or ‘B vitamins’ is used. B-Complex vitamins include eight water soluble vitamins that take an […]
Natural Cures For Hypertension – Using the Natural Power of Herbs to Lower Blood Pressure
There are medicinal herbs too that can lower blood pressure. These herbs are wonderful alternative cures for hypertension, because they have immediate and significant effects to your body. Some of them tone your arterial walls, making them strong and supple. Other herbs work on your kidneys by enhancing their salt and water shedding abilities. Still, […]