Diabetes and High Blood Pressure by Surprise

by Jodi Knapp | Apr 21, 2012 | 12 comments

Today’s article is quite personal. You see, on Monday morning, a good friend called me internationally telling me he had collapsed on the floor and couldn’t move for about two hours. After that he staggered to bed and fell asleep. Why this happened has everything to...

Specific Type of Blood Pressure Causes Heart Problems

by Christian Goodman | Apr 18, 2012 | 8 comments

A mega-study following 12,000 middle age adults for over two decades may have cracked the code on how to spot heart problems early, simply by measuring certain blood pressure changes. Researchers found over the course of this two-decade study that participants whose...

White Coat Symptoms Proven in Studies

by Christian Goodman | Apr 16, 2012 | 25 comments

White coat syndrome, or the phenomenon where a person’s blood pressure raises simply because they are stressing out over visiting a doctor, has been shown to affect over 1/3 of people over 50. A study conducted by researchers at The National Clinical Guideline Center...

Raisins Help Reduce Blood Pressure

by Christian Goodman | Apr 14, 2012 | 22 comments

Recently, study findings from the Louisville Metabolic and Atherosclerosis Research Center showed that pre-hypertensive participants who ate raisins three times a day were able to reduce their blood pressure during the 12-week study. Compared to participants eating...

Soy Helps Lowers Blood Pressure

by Christian Goodman | Apr 9, 2012 | 42 comments

Researchers at Columbia University in New York found that people who consumed more soy protein than non-soy eating counterparts had much lower blood pressure. The data suggest that the isoflavones in soy work to boost the body’s natural production of nitric oxide,...

Why Blood Pressure and Cholesterol Rise With Age

by Julissa Clay | Apr 7, 2012 | 26 comments

Is there a single reason why these levels creep into the danger zone with age? Most doctors will tell you no… that there are simply too many other variables that accompany aging that will affect blood pressure, cholesterol, sexual performance, metabolism, etc. But are...