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Good diet foods for high blood pressure include blueberries, flax meal, hibiscus or jamaica tea, and beet juice. But high blood pressure management starts with measuring it accurately: I recommend the Omron Series 7 for home. These foods all have very good peer-reviewed medical research that shows [...]
Weight and hypertension go hand in hand. The more you weigh, the more likely you are to have high blood pressure, and the more vascular resistance your heart will have to work against. An estimated 43 million Americans have hypertension, and more than double that figure are dangerously close [...]
TOTAL CALORIES: 24,375 TOTAL GRAMS OF FAT: 1,285 TOTAL COST: $86.47 My patients eat a lot of calories, but are actually malnourished. Your brain doesn’t count calories–it counts nutrients. But there are few needed nutrients in this photo created for Super Bowl Sunday. The brain is [...]
Why do patients stop taking their medication? 3 reasons: reminders, money and communication. Nonadherence is costly, physically dangerous, unnecessary and important. One in four patients prescribed antihypertensives stop them within 6 months. One in three patients are off their statins within [...]
The Lancet study finding that ARBs (Angiotensin Receptor Blockers), commonly prescribed for high blood pressure, heart failure and kidney disease actually result in more cancer, especially lung cancer, is alarming. But so would be the sound of people stopping their meds this moment because of [...]
The Institute of Medicine report, “Strategies to Reduce Sodium Intake in the United States” reports that Americans take in 3400mg of sodium daily. That’s about 8.5 grams or 1.5 teaspoons of salt. 94% of it we never see. Looking at the Washington Post graph from its excellent story about [...]