by Christian Goodman | Apr 23, 2013 |
High blood pressure, or Hypertension, has been identified by the World Health Organization as the deadliest and worst preventable epidemic in all of history. The results of untreated, long-term high blood pressure can be catastrophic, even if the elevation isn’t very...
by Christian Goodman | Apr 20, 2013 |
The health benefits of getting optimum amounts of vitamins and minerals are many, and people are even finding out that just a mild deficiency can have widespread consequences, especially for vitamins that affect many processes in the body. One vitamin in particular is...
by Christian Goodman | Apr 15, 2013 |
A controversial new study looking at Mayo Clinic patients was recently published that challenges what most people- including doctors- understand about when and how to have blood pressure measured. This could mean that millions of people were unnecessarily put on...
by Christian Goodman | Apr 14, 2013 |
A mega-study involving more than 54,000 participants has caused a stir, as published in the European Heart Journal recently. The massive study- to date, the largest of its kind- looked at the effects of insomnia on health and found disturbing evidence of how it causes...
by Christian Goodman | Apr 13, 2013 |
Finding the best exercise to lower blood pressure, according to many Western physicians, might seem to be a moving target, especially when there are so many exercise plans hitting the consumer stream these days. According to a new study published by the American Heart...
by Christian Goodman | Apr 11, 2013 |
Why in the world might your eye doctor want to take your blood pressure? Is it possible that by controlling your blood pressure, you could get rid of those irritating reading glasses? Growing evidence linking blood pressure to eyesight is leading many industry...