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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 [...]
Americans treated for diabetes doubled to about 19 million (8.5% of the population) in 2007 compared with 9.1 million (4.6% of the population) in 1996, according to the AHRQ, a federal agency. That doesn’t count the undiagnosed (7 million) and those with prediabetes (79 million). Health care [...]
Herbalgram published 2009 herbal supplement sales, and the industry is going gangbusters, with nearly $250 billion in sales last year. What’s especially interesting to me is that nearly all the top herbal supplements sold are not herbs. Herbs are leaves. Spices are nearly everything else in a [...]
Could drinking actually help you fend off weight gain? Actually yes, for women. Take the recent 13 year Harvard study of 19,220 normal-weight, normal BMI, middle-aged women and their drinking habits. Women who had an average of one to two drinks daily gained less weight and had a lower [...]