{"id":3371,"date":"2011-10-07T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=3371"},"modified":"2011-10-30T12:27:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T16:27:35","slug":"what-is-the-treatment-for-high-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/10\/07\/what-is-the-treatment-for-high-blood-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Treatment for High Blood Pressure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/10\/07\/what-is-the-treatment-for-high-blood-pressure\/smartsalt\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3324\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3324\" title=\"smartsalt\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/smartsalt-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/smartsalt-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/smartsalt-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Simply replacing salt \u2013scientifically known as sodium chloride\u2014with a magnesium or potassium-rich version is enough to dramatically lower blood pressure, a team of scientists report in this week\u2019s \u201cNutrition Journal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this study, a group of adults with high blood pressure swapped out their table salt for a new type of salt \u2013 known as Smart Salt &#8212; rich in the blood pressure lowering-minerals magnesium and potassium.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the study, Smart Salt users consumed less sodium in their diet and lowered their blood pressure numbers at the end of the 8-week follow-up period.<\/p>\n<p>The study authors note that those with high blood pressure can reap the same benefits of Smart Salt by cutting down on sodium and adding in potassium and magnesium-rich foods such as broccoli, yogurt, bananas and whole grain oatmeal in their diets.<\/p>\n<p>More ways to <a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/bloodpressure\">naturally lower blood pressure&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Warm regards,<\/p>\n<p>Christian Goodman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simply replacing salt \u2013scientifically known as sodium chloride\u2014with a magnesium or potassium-rich version is enough to dramatically lower blood pressure, a team of scientists report in this week\u2019s \u201cNutrition Journal.\u201d In this study, a group of adults with high blood pressure swapped out their table salt for a new type of salt \u2013 known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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":[36,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-high-blood-pressure"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}