{"id":1346,"date":"2011-05-25T23:30:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T03:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/blog\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2011-11-02T03:18:40","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T07:18:40","slug":"natural-way-to-reduce-high-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/05\/25\/natural-way-to-reduce-high-blood-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Way to Reduce High Blood Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1343\" href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/05\/25\/natural-way-to-reduce-high-blood-pressure\/imsis550-428\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1343\" title=\"imsis550-428\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/blog\/home\/blueher1\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fasting-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fasting-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fasting.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a>Those wondering what they should eat to lower their blood pressure may be surprised that the answer may be \u201cnothing,\u201d according to a research team from the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute. In a new study, they found that periodically fasting boosts overall heart health by reducing cholesterol and blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p>In this study, a group of volunteers were assigned to fast for 24 consecutive hours. They found that the single-day fast was enough to significantly improve cardiovascular disease risk factors like hypertension, triglycerides and \u201cbad\u201d LDL cholesterol.  The researchers add, however, that the long-term health effects of fasting have not been studied as of yet.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what else you can do to <a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/bloodpressure\">reduce your blood pressure naturally<\/a>&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWarm regards,<br \/>\nChristian Goodman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those wondering what they should eat to lower their blood pressure may be surprised that the answer may be \u201cnothing,\u201d according to a research team from the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute. In a new study, they found that periodically fasting boosts overall heart health by reducing cholesterol and blood pressure. In this study, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"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":[36,17,29,16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-cholesterol","category-general","category-heart-health","category-high-blood-pressure"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346","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=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}