{"id":4625,"date":"2012-01-30T01:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T06:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=4625"},"modified":"2012-02-02T15:47:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T20:47:18","slug":"casual-exercise-fights-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2012\/01\/30\/casual-exercise-fights-blood-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Casual Exercise Fights Blood Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/walking-high-blood-pressure-214x300.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"walking-high-blood-pressure\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/walking-high-blood-pressure-214x300.png 214w, https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/walking-high-blood-pressure.png 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/>Those that feel they need to run a marathon to lower their blood pressure can relax with some good news from researchers at Louisiana University. <\/p>\n<p>In a new study, the scientists discovered that moderate, low-impact exercise like walking and riding on a stationary bike is enough to reduce high blood pressure. <\/p>\n<p>The total amount of exercise that the group did amounted to less than 2.5 hours per week and lowered systolic blood pressure by 11 points, only slightly less than a group that worked out for nearly 5 hours per week. <\/p>\n<p>Learn 3 easy exercises to <a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/bloodpressure\">drop blood pressure as soon as today&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those that feel they need to run a marathon to lower their blood pressure can relax with some good news from researchers at Louisiana University. In a new study, the scientists discovered that moderate, low-impact exercise like walking and riding on a stationary bike is enough to reduce high blood pressure. The total amount of [&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-4625","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\/4625","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=4625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}