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• Sodium & Blood Pressure: What's the Connection

  Published: August 6, 2007, 5:30 pm

  Tags: Bacon, Blood Pressure, Processed Foods, Rdi, Salt, Sodium

  starts to build up in your blood. Since sodium holds water, your blood volume increases, making it harder for your heart to move blood through your blood vessels. This in turn increases pressure in your arteries (high blood pressure), which can cause heart failure. That's an attention getter isn't it? Do you know how much sodium is too much?

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• Happy National More Herbs, Less Salt Day!

  Published: August 29, 2007, 4:01 am

  Tags: Fresh Herbs, High Blood Pressure, Linguine Fresh Herbs, More Herbs Less Salt Day, Mrs Dash, Mrs Dash, Salt, Sodium

  especially if you have high blood pressure (and a lot more people in the country have high blood pressure than anyone realizes - what used to be "borderline" is now too high). I haven't added salt to food in over 10 years (no joke), usually substituting pepper if I need a little seasoning. I also like those no-salt seasoning like Mrs. Dash. Go

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• Benefits of Cardio Interval Training

  Published: September 4, 2007, 5:28 pm

  Tags: Health, Blood Fats, Cardio Interval Training, Cigarette Smoking, Epidemiological Research, Exercise, Heart Disease, Heart Muscles, High Blood Pressure, High Cholesterol Levels, Limb Muscles, Public Health, Quitting Cigarettes, Risk Factors

  35, cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, high levels of certain blood fats, and a family history of cardiovascular disorders. (more…) copyright @2007 Bu.bulicio.us blood fats, cardio interval training, cigarette smoking, epidemiological research, exercise, heart disease, heart muscles, high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels,

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• Hypertension - High Blood Pressure

  Published: September 1, 2007, 6:07 am

  Tags: High Blood Pressure

  taken. Systolic blood pressure represents the peak pumping pressure of your heart when it is fully contracted during a heartbeat. Diastolic blood pressure represents the pressure in the heart when it is at rest between heartbeats. You may be diagnosed with hypertension if your systolic pressure is 140 or higher, and your diastolic

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• High Blood Pressure - are you at risk?

  Published: July 5, 2007, 8:12 am

  Tags: High Blood Pressure

  for Hypertension (High Blood Pressure) Risk factors are characteristics that may increase your chance for developing a condition. The more risk factors you have, the more likely you are to develop the condition. You are at increased risk for developing hypertension if you: Are 60 years of age or older Have a family history of hypertension

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• Who gets High Blood Pressure?

  Published: May 15, 2007, 8:16 am

  Tags: High Blood Pressure

  (High Blood Pressure) Who has it? According to estimates based on the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and on U.S. Census information, one-fourth of the general adult population in America has some degree of high blood pressure--a total of about 50 million people. Approximately 1 billion people

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• How is Hypertension (High Blood Pressure) treated

  Published: May 5, 2007, 8:17 am

  Tags: High Blood Pressure

  goal is to lower systolic blood pressure to less than 140 and the diastolic blood pressure to less than 90 ("less than 140 over 90"). For individuals with other medical conditions, blood pressure goals are lower and are determined by your doctor. For instance, the blood pressure goal for most people with diabetes is a systolic less than 130

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• You Asked: Cucumbers???

  Published: September 6, 2007, 5:15 am

  Tags: Blood Pressure, Cucumber, Healthy Skin, Nutritional Benefits, Silica, You Asked

  with fiber, can help reduce blood pressure. Cukes are also high in the mineral silica, an essential component for healthy connective tissues, like ligaments and tendons. Its silica content also makes the cucumber beneficial to the skin, both eating the veggie and applying its flesh topically to your flesh. There's a reason you always see

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• Tea may be an upper, but not for blood pressure

  Published: September 25, 2007, 9:46 am

  Tags: Tea, Mood, Coffee, Blood Pressure

  may make you alert but if blood pressure is a problem, you may fare better with tea. The reason has been demonstrated in a trial about the effect of isolated substances from tea and coffee on mood and blood pressure. Caffeine is found in both tea and coffee, it raises alertness as well as blood pressure. Theanine, found in tea only, has the

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• Salt: Sodium plus chloride equals trouble

  Published: September 27, 2007, 2:39 pm

  Tags: Healthcare, Health, Weight Loss, Health Risks, Health Warnings, Blood Pressure, Eating Well, Cholesterol, Diet Excercise, Diet Exercise, Salt

  recently wrote about high blood pressure and its associated health problems. Today I'd like to focus on salt because it is a major contributor to high blood pressure and because many people either don't understand it or are misinformed about it. Around the world, and in the U.S., excess salt intake and increasing rates of high blood pressure go

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• High blood pressure may be due to excess weight of adults

  Published: September 29, 2007, 3:58 am

  Tags: Health, High Blood Pressure, Obesity, Overweight Patients

  As many as 50 percent of overweight men and women with high blood pressure may have hypertension as a result of being overweight, researchers reported today at the American Heart Association's 61st Annual Fall Conference of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research.

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• Half of hypertensive California adults take blood pressure-lowering drugs

  Published: September 29, 2007, 3:56 am

  Tags: Health, High Blood Pressure, Hypertension, Hypertension Drugs

  About half of California adults diagnosed with high blood pressure, or hypertension, do not take medication to lower it, researchers reported today at the American Heart Association's 61st Annual Fall Conference of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research.

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• Brainy idea 25 years in making

  Published: October 4, 2007, 6:53 am

  Tags: Health, Blood Pressure, Brain, Hypertension

  A discovery made 25 years ago about how the brain controls blood pressure regulation is only now being explored with the help of scientists from the Howard Florey Institute.

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• Blood Pressure Control Same As Health Control

  Published: October 5, 2007, 1:34 am

  Tags: Health, Blood Pressure Readings, Digital Monitor, Excessive Amounts, Healthy Foods, Healthy Lifestyle, Healthy Weight, Lifestyle Habits, Overweight

  should be receiving regular blood pressure checks at your regular doctor visits. If you want to check it more often than you go to the doctor, you can purchase a home device that lets you monitor your blood pressure. There are different kinds to choose from. (more…) copyright @2007 Bu.bulicio.us blood pressure readings, digital

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• All about Blood Pressure

  Published: October 7, 2007, 5:51 pm

  Tags: Health, Artery Walls, Cause High Blood Pressure, Congestive Heart Failure, Diastolic Pressure, Experience Chest Pain, Heart Attack, High Blood Pressure, Normal Blood Pressure, Stroke, Systolic Pressure

  What is blood pressure? Blood pressure is the force of your blood against your artery walls. When you have your blood pressure checked the reading has two numbers; one on top and one on bottom. The top number is your systolic pressure. This is the force of your blood in your arteries when your heart beats. The bottom number is your diastolic

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