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Taking food to heart.(keeping the heart healthy)
six ways to keep your heart healthy
your heart pumps blood to every cell in your body through a vast network of blood vessels, supplying oxygen and nutrients, and helping you fight infections--so breakdown in this system means your entire body pays the price.
Disease of this cardiovascular system mainly afflicts people in technologically advanced countries because of stress, lack of exercise, and a diet rich in fat, salt, processed foods, lack of fiber, and caffeine. The American Medical Association warns that cigarette smoking increases cardiovascular deaths by 300 percent because nicotine constricts arteries, and carbon monoxide in the smoke cuts down ...
- Lower your blood pressure while you sleep: an evening dose of antihypertensive...
- Magazine article from: Heart Advisor April 1, 2008 700+ words
...or increases in daytime blood pressure. The average age of study...dipping A nighttime drop in blood pressure not only gives your blood vessels a chance to relax, but...disease (CKD). Increasing blood pressure can cause a decline in...
- Studies Shows Device-Guided Paced Breathing Lowers Blood Pressure & Peripheral...
- Press release article from: Business Wire May 16, 2006 700+ words
...resistance of narrowed blood vessels to blood flow...resistance) and lower blood pressure. The mechanism...device lowers blood pressure and treats one...Narrowed small blood vessels are a primary factor in elevated blood pressure, as they increase...
- For Kids With High Blood Pressure, Surgery Can Help When Medicines Fail, U-M...
- News wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service December 28, 2006 700+ words
...stenoses, in the blood vessels that lead to the...t respond to blood pressure medications...in regulating blood pressure, by filtering...hormones. But if the blood vessels that feed them...renin that causes blood vessels throughout the...thereby increasing ...
- Prevent diabetes problems: Keep your heart and blood vessels healthy.(Pamphlet)
- Newspaper article from: Pamphlet by: National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases May 15, 2000 700+ words
...damages my heart and blood vessels? * Having high...Having high blood pressure. * Smoking cigarettes...when narrowed blood vessels let less blood...disease cause high blood pressure? Clogged and narrowed blood vessels leave a smaller...
- 'COLUMBIA' TO MONITOR BLOOD VESSELS, PRESSURE.(Living)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) May 21, 1991 700+ words
...astronaut will go through liftoff with a tube threaded through a vein into blood vessels near his heart. The test will monitor blood pressure and changes in blood vessels around the heart during the stress of takeoff and the first few hours of...
- Leg blood vessels adapt with age to allow exercise without fainting.
- Newspaper article from: Life Science Weekly October 26, 2004 700+ words
...temporary drop in blood pressure. This stimulates...that constrict blood vessels, even those vessels...working muscles. Blood vessels in our leg muscles...maintenance of bodily blood pressure, so we don...preserve systemic blood pressure during ...
- Blood Vessels: The Pied Piper for Growing Nerve Cells.
- News wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service April 10, 2008 700+ words
...discovered that blood vessels in the head...nerve cells with blood pressure controlling...suggest that blood vessels throughout the...appear to use blood vessels as guideposts...that makes the blood pressure regulating protein...
- HYPERTENSION ACCELERATES NORMAL AGING PROCESS IN BLOOD VESSELS.(L.A. Life)
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) April 13, 1997 700+ words
...Goetinck Knight-Ridder Tribune News Wire High blood pressure can cause blood vessels to age before their time, new research suggests...a study of men and women with normal and high blood pressure. The ability of vessels to widen went down as...
