According to a study from Louisiana State University School of Public Health in New Orleans and published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, drinking more than five cups of coffee does NOT increase the risk of developing high blood pressure.

The researchers pulled data from six studies that included more than 170,000 people and monitored their blood pressure for 33 years. Only 20% developed high blood pressure and there was no difference between people drinking less than one cup or coffee or those drinking more than five.

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85% arthritis patients reduced their pain over 50% when they “thought” researchers were massaging and stretching the painful area. When in fact their mind was all that was being manipulated.

The researchers from The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, used special cameras and software to make it look like they were stretching the hurting areas.

The results from this study that will be published in the journal Rheumatology, indicate just how powerful role our minds can play in
managing pain.

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Drinking only 250 ml of beet juice drops high blood pressure 10 points (mmHg) on the average –

…WITHIN THREE HOURS!

This is a results of a study made by Dr. Amrita Ahluwalia, Professor of Vascular Biology at Queen Mary’s William Harvey Research Institute in London, which was published in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension.

Beet juice has also been shown to lower bad cholesterol (LDL) and increase good cholesterol (HDL) if used on daily basis.

So overall health benefits of this simple vegetable are tremendous.

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Today, Amanda McQuade Crawford, medicinal herbalist gives us great tips on handling arthritis pain naturally:

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According to a study led by Dr. Jinesh Kochar, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and presented at the American Heart Association conference in Atlanta, eating whole grain cereal in the morning lowers the risk of hypertension up to 25%.

The study included 13,368 males who did not have high blood pressure at the beginning of the study. 16 years later, almost half of them, 7,267 men, had developed hypertension.

The men were then separated into four groups based on how many bowls of whole grain cereal they ate per week. Eating cereal once a week lowed the risk of hypertension 8% but eating cereal more than seven times per week lowered the risk 25%.

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We’ve known for years that saturated fat is one of the key causes of type 2 diabetes. We’ve also known that people suffering the disease have tan over-active immune response, loading their bodies with unneeded  inflammatory chemicals. But we haven’t known for sure how these two components interact to create type 2 diabetes.

Recent research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and published in the journal Nature Immunology sheds some light on this connection. Its findings show that only saturated fatty acids activate the immune system to produce special inflammatory protein named interleukin-1beta.

This inflammatory protein acts on several organism to turn off their response to insulin, which then leads to type 2 diabetes in the long haul.

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According to a new study including 2000 patients from the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and published in Journal of the American Medical Association, risk of severe heart attack can be detected much sooner using a new blood test.

Most people have several unnoticeable, very mild heart attacks long before they experience a severe heart attack. This test detects proteins that are released to heal the heart after these mild heart attacks.

Researchers say this early detection and then treatment may lower the risk of severe heart attack by 50%.

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Exercises drastically lower the negative effects salt has on blood pressure. This bold statement comes from a brand new collaborative study from China and Tulane University in New Orleans and presented at the American Heart Association’s Nutrition 2011 Scientific Sessions.

The researchers recruited over 1900 people who had a family history of hypertension and guided them to first eat only 3000mg of salt and the next week 18000mg (much more than most people would ever eat).

Those who exercised regularly were 35% less likely to have any real rise in blood pressure despite drastically increasing their salt intake.

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Dr. McBarron explains the serious (even deadly) risk of taking antibiotics when if you’re on blood pressure drugs:

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A study published in the journal “Arthritis & Rheumatism” including 68,170 Danish pregnant women, showed that 25% of those with Rheumatoid arthritis had tried to get pregnant for over a year before they succeeded compared to 16% without arthritis.

The lead researcher Dr. Damini Jawaheer, of Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute said use of medications could be a reason. She also encouraged young women with Rheumatoid arthritis not to delay pregnancy.

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