Tag: high blood pressure
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Top 7 Health Problems Impacting Men Over 40
Men, as we get older, our health issues and troubling conditions start to occur more often. Most men’s health issues aren’t severe and may not even require medical advice. However, there are some men’s health issues that men over 40 should be aware of, such as memory loss, heart disease, strokes, high blood pressure (hypertension), […]
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Are you Gaining Weight? Then You Need to Know the Dangers of Visceral Fat
For those that have experienced weight gain, you should know that fat cells are stored in 3 ways – essential, subcutaneous, and then there is visceral fat. Visceral fat is dangerous body fat that can cause serious health problems if not dealt with. Unfortunately, visceral fat is often invisible to the naked eye, and many […]
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What is Cholesterol? — How to Control Your High Cholesterol Level?
Do you know about 48% of American adults (1) have high cholesterol, and it leads to stroke and heart attack, which are two leading causes of death in the United States? What’s even more frightening is that high cholesterol doesn’t have any symptoms; you only know when you go through a screening or have a […]
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13 Life-Changing Reasons to Cut Out Added Sugars
Sugar has been lately used in every food and drink, even in sauces. That’s why it has reached an alarming situation as sugar has many disadvantages related to your health. In the past decade, sugar consumption has abruptly increased. According to a recent study, Americans consumed about 11 million metric tons of sugar between 2020/21 […]
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Top 10 MUST Have Exams for Men Over 40
Real men don’t cry nor do they go to the doctor. Unfortunately, these are things that I grew up hearing as a young man. Now that I am an older and wiser man, I know that real men do both and on occasions, they do both at the same time depending on the type of […]
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What is the DASH Diet? — How the DASH Diet Solved My High Blood Pressure?
High blood pressure is the most caused health problem, and more than a billion people are affected worldwide, and the number is not decreasing by any chance. Even though the number has been almost doubled in the last 40 years, causing severe health problems that lead to heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, and more, by […]
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This One Thing Can Help Prevent Heart Disease
The number 1 leading cause of death in the world and the United States is heart disease. Each year cardiovascular disease (CVD) takes ~17 million lives globally and over 800,000 lives in the US. But for many of us, we can prevent heart disease if we simply do just one thing, choose healthy habits. To […]
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Learn How to Take Your Blood Pressure: Track and Monitor Your Progress to a Healthier Lifestyle
If you suffer from high blood pressure it is extremely important that you stay on top of your blood pressure readings. There is a saying that goes, you can’t improve what you don’t measure. This holds true for lowering your blood pressure. To be able to improve your blood pressure and track your progress you […]
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How You Can Lower Your High Blood Pressure in 5 Easy Steps
I am one of the millions in the world that suffer from hypertension or what is better known as high blood pressure (HBP). I recently got serious about fighting my high blood pressure when I suffered a really bad headache for three consecutive days. The pain was so severe that I planned to go to […]