{"id":4329,"date":"2011-12-15T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T06:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=4329"},"modified":"2011-12-11T10:52:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T15:52:30","slug":"having-fun-works-as-well-as-blood-pressure-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/12\/15\/having-fun-works-as-well-as-blood-pressure-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Having Fun Works As Well as Blood Pressure Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/laughing-high-blood-pressure.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"laughing-high-blood-pressure\" width=\"312\" height=\"342\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/laughing-high-blood-pressure.png 312w, https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/laughing-high-blood-pressure-273x300.png 273w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/>Having a laugh or listening to your favorite band lowers blood pressure about as well as most prescription drugs, a Japanese research team discovered. <\/p>\n<p>In this study, a group of older adults with high blood pressure were asked to visit a laboratory twice per month. Once there, the volunteers heard jokes , listed to music, and relaxed.  <\/p>\n<p>After the course of the 2-month period, subjects lowered their blood pressure by 6 point on average. The scientists note that this benefit is similar to losing 10 lbs. of excess body weight or decreasing sodium intake.<\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/bloodpressure\">blood pressure program<\/a> uses somewhat similar tactics \u2013 except it only takes 9 minutes\/day. <a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/bloodpressure\">Check it out here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a laugh or listening to your favorite band lowers blood pressure about as well as most prescription drugs, a Japanese research team discovered. In this study, a group of older adults with high blood pressure were asked to visit a laboratory twice per month. Once there, the volunteers heard jokes , listed to music, [&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":[36,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4329","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\/4329","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=4329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}