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Healthy foods to fight blood pressure

September 7, 2016 SrijitaBlood, Fight, Foods, Healthy, Pressure?, to

Here are a few items that you should stock up to reduce your blood pressure levels Fighting blood pressure and sugar levels while craving for food might be a difficult job. Here a few food items that can help you lower your blood pressure levels and keep it at a normal level. Spinach – Spinach is loaded with magnesium and also contains potassium which are key ingredients for lowering and maintaining healthy blood pressure levels. So add more greens to your daily dish and enjoy a healthy life minus all…

DASH diet helps improving gout blood marker

August 17, 2016 Srijita'dash, Blood, Diet:, gout, Helps, improving, marker

DASH diet helps improving gout blood marker (Getty Images) DASH diet, designed decades ago to reduce high blood pressure, also appears to significantly lower uric acid, the causative agent of gout. DASH is the form of diet rich in fruits, vegetables, low-fat dairy and reduced in fats and saturated fats. A new study led by Johns Hopkins researchers shows that the effect was so strong in some participants that it was nearly comparable to that achieved with drugs specifically prescribed to treat gout. The findings, derived from a randomized clinical…

Briefly Standing, or Being Active, Reduces Blood Sugar Across the Day

August 16, 2016 Srijitaacross, Active, being, Blood, Briefly, Day, or, reduces, Standing, Sugar, The

For obese people who sit for most of the day, replacing some sitting time with standing, slow walking or slow cycling reduces average blood sugar across the day and into the night, a small study finds. “Anything you can do to bring down glucose readings throughout the day is a good thing,” said senior author Glenn Gaesser of the School of Nutrition and Health Promotion at Arizona State University in Phoenix. “We chose a typical workday because a large number of Americans spend a lot of time sitting at an…

Briefly Standing, or Being Active, Reduces Blood Sugar Across the Day

August 14, 2016 Srijitaacross, Active, being, Blood, Briefly, Day, or, reduces, Standing, Sugar, The

Decreased Blood Flow in Brain Earliest Sign of Alzheimer’s

July 15, 2016 SrijitaAlzheimer's, Blood, Brain, Decreased, Earliest, Flow, In, of, sign

PhotoCredit:istock Contrary to previous understanding, the first physiological sign of Alzheimer’s disease is a decrease in blood flow in the brain, say researchers. An increase in amyloid protein was considered to be the first detectable sign of Alzheimer’s. While amyloid certainly plays a role, this study found that changes in blood flow were the earliest known warning sign of Alzheimer’s. Led by Alan Evans from Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, the researchers analysed more than 7,700 brain images from 1,171 people in various stages of Alzheimer’s progression using a variety…

Get a Grip on High Blood Pressure: This Simple Hand Exercise Can Help

July 15, 2016 Srijitaa, Blood, Can, exercise:, Get, Grip, Hand, Help, High;, On, Pressure?, simple, This

Image credit: Istock You probably know that high blood pressure, or hypertension, is a major risk factor for heart attack, stroke, vision problems, even dementia. But did you know this? Hand-grip exercises – squeezing one of those V-shape devices with a resistance spring – can lower your blood pressure by about 10 percent. That’s one of the “15 Things You Better Know About Your Blood Pressure” that AARP reports in the June issue of its Bulletin publication and at aarp.org. It cites a “landmark” paper published in 2013 in Hypertension,…