{"id":12100,"date":"2015-05-25T13:30:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T17:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=12100"},"modified":"2015-05-21T01:52:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T05:52:38","slug":"how-tv-causes-your-high-blood-pressure-watch-what-you-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2015\/05\/25\/how-tv-causes-your-high-blood-pressure-watch-what-you-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"How TV Causes Your High Blood Pressure (watch what you watch)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/TV_12794588_xs.jpg\" alt=\"How TV Causes Your High Blood Pressure (watch what you watch)\" width=\"287\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9399\" \/>According to a new study, watching TV can be lethal. Yes, if done in the wrong way, it triggers the #1 killer of mankind today&#8230; high blood pressure!<\/p>\n<p>But you can watch TV in a different way, and it has no danger. Or you can make up for it with another easy activity.<\/p>\n<p>The new study from Universities of Zaragoza (Unizar) and S\u00e3o Paulo (Brazil) revealed that children who watch more than two hours of TV per day have 30% increased risk of high blood pressure. This most likely applies to adults as well.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, by exercising less than an hour per day, the children added another 50% likelihood of developing high blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p>So watching two hours of TV <em>and<\/em> not exercising, more than doubled their risk of high blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers based their analysis on numbers from another study including 5,221 participants from eight European countries, followed for two years.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that if the children exercised for more than an hour, the risk of long TV-watching was reversed somewhat. <\/p>\n<p>So the conclusion is that exercise is the best way to burn off high blood pressure. That applies to children and adults equally.<\/p>\n<p>The best exercises I know to lower blood pressure include a set of 3 easy blood pressure exercises, designed to bring blood pressure below 120\/80, starting today.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/the-blood-pressure-program\/\">Learn more about these easy blood pressure exercises and try them out for yourself here&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new study, watching TV can be lethal. Yes, if done in the wrong way, it triggers the #1 killer of mankind today&#8230; high blood pressure! But you can watch TV in a different way, and it has no danger. Or you can make up for it with another easy activity. The new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":12169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-high-blood-pressure"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/TV_12794588_xs.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}