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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 [...]
I got my annual increase in health insurance premium last month with no increase in coverage. “Starting with your January invoice…(we will bill you) an increase of $38 or a 14 percent increase from your previous monthly rate.” Ouch. So I started shopping for alternatives. I have no [...]
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Dr Oz says “break it down and make it simple”. Dr. Roizen says “diet smart, not hard: small changes make a big difference.” They recommend in their new YOU: Losing Weight Recruit your team. You need someone to cheer for you and take the fries from you. Plan Your [...]
Film and TV can change the world in the way that even best-selling books cannot. I love television and film because you can tell a story visually, and so many people learn visually. Temple Grandin, the wonderful and now famous professor of animal behavior and advocate for people with [...]
Brian Montopoli at CBS’ News Blog quotes Bill Clinton today as saying his heart disease developed from “the habits I acquired in my childhood, mostly the way I ate and the way it interacted with my own biology and propensity to produce bad cholesterol,” (from People [...]