Each time your heart beats, its powerful muscles send blood through the arteries. Maintaining a normal blood pressure is critical to one’s health, as hypetension damages the arteries and increases the risk of a stroke or heart attack. It’s especially important to maintain healthy blood pressure early in life; prehypertension in adolescence can get carried […]
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Top 2 Home Remedies to Keep Blood Pressure Down!
For many people keeping blood pressure down is a must especially if there is a strong history of high blood pressure in the family. Many men and women can relate to a parent who died young due to stroke caused by elevated BP. For those that are alarmed because of family history and are in […]
Will Exercise Lower Or Raise Your Blood Sugar Levels?
Since receiving your diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, there is no doubt you have heard about the benefit of exercise. Too little activity leads to weight gain and contributes to insulin resistance and high blood sugar levels. Your muscles store glucose and when you are inactive, glucose remains unused in your muscles and therefore no […]
Vitamins, The Difference Between Pharmaceutical Grade Vitamins vs Regular
Vitamins are necessary for human life and health. They are required in minute amounts, and with the exception of Vitamin B12, cannot be manufactured in your bodies. These organic compounds need to be obtained from diet, and if deprived of a particular vitamin, you will suffer from disease specific to that vitamin. It is a […]
The Type 2 Diabetes and High Blood Pressure Link!
Type 2 diabetics have a higher rate of hypertension or high blood pressure than non-diabetics… in fact it is so common you have twice the risk when you have type 2 diabetes. Hypertension raises both your risk for heart attack, stroke and other complications of diabetes. Blood pressure is read as two numbers, for example […]