This SMS Text Lowers Your Blood Pressure

This SMS Text Lowers Your Blood Pressure

What if one simple text could lower your blood pressure 2.2 points? I know it’s not much, but receiving a text is also not that complicated, right? A few months ago, researchers at the University of Cape Town and Oxford University published a study in Circulation. It...
Indulge Over Weekends to Cut Your Type 2 Diabetes

Indulge Over Weekends to Cut Your Type 2 Diabetes

Most of the advice people with type 2 diabetes get includes denying yourself of something you love. You can’t eat this, you can’t do that. So you may welcome a new study, published in the January 2016 edition of the journal Diabetes Care, that shows how indulging in a...
Has Your Stroke Risk Gone Up 53%? (be warned)

Has Your Stroke Risk Gone Up 53%? (be warned)

Stroke has become one of the leading causes of death in the world. One group in particular is experiencing a spike in stroke risk. And it’s exactly the group that’s most vulnerable. Since the mid-90s, strokes in patients under the age of 45 have shot up as much as...
The Intense Exercise That Improves Arthritis

The Intense Exercise That Improves Arthritis

If you suffer arthritis, you’ve probably been recommended to do some light, easy exercises. Such as water aerobics and light walking. The problem with this is that light exercise like this may not be enough to burn many calories or boost your heart health. And you may...