Does This One Common Ingredient Cause 2.3 Billion Deaths a Year?

by Scott Davis | Apr 26, 2013 | 17 comments

In a study recently released out of Harvard Medical School, researchers looked again at the relationship between high blood pressure, heart disease, and stroke to a common (and necessary) food ingredient, used all over the world in almost every culture. The...

Everyone’s Blood Pressure CURED Using This Common Fruit

by Christian Goodman | Apr 25, 2013 | 38 comments

In a small study published recently in the Journal of Hypertension, a rare event happened where every single one of the participants were able to normalize their blood pressure- without drugs- using nothing but a common fruit extract. What is more amazing is the...

Reduce Type 2 Diabetes Risk 24% Consuming These Delicious Nuts

by Jodi Knapp | Apr 24, 2013 | 3 comments

Reducing type 2 diabetes risk by almost a quarter is as easy as eating only 8 ounces of these easy-to-find nuts, according to a large new study published in the Journal of Nutrition. What’s more, the researchers found that people who made it a point to include these...

6 Serious Effects of High Blood Pressure

by Christian Goodman | Apr 23, 2013 | 7 comments

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...

Lose Weight While Sleeping

by Christian Goodman | Apr 22, 2013 | 5 comments

When you think of tackling these extra pounds, you’d probably be considering diet and exercise plans as your only option. Many recent studies have revealed, however, a very easy method that can effortlessly (and we mean no effort) help you shed off several pounds in...

This Essential Vitamin Lowers Blood Pressure 4 points

by Christian Goodman | Apr 20, 2013 | 7 comments

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...

This Type 2 Diabetes Drug Causes Enlarged Pancreas

by Jodi Knapp | Apr 16, 2013 | 5 comments

Drugs that are used to increase the hormone glucagon in the gut to treat diabetes have come under fire recently, after researchers looked at the pancreas of deceased patients taking the drugs. Their findings were startling and unsettling, considering that people with...

Surprising News About High Blood Pressure Measurement

by Christian Goodman | Apr 15, 2013 | 8 comments

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...

How Sleeplessness Causes Heart Attack

by Christian Goodman | Apr 14, 2013 | 2 comments

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...

The Best Exercises for High Blood Pressure

by Christian Goodman | Apr 13, 2013 | 6 comments

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...