May 14, 2012 — Does high blood pressure run in your family? Keeping physically fit may lower your odds of developing high blood pressure by a third.
A new study shows that physically fit people with a family history of high blood pressure were up to 34% less likely to develop high blood pressure than people who rarely exercised.
And it didn’t take hours of working out at the gym every day to get that benefit.
“The results of this study send a very practical message, which is that even a very realistic, moderate amount of exercise — which we define as brisk walking for 150 minutes per week — can provide a huge health benefit, particularly to people predisposed to hypertension because of their family history,” researcher Robin P.
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03 May
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FRIDAY, May 4 — If a woman smokes during pregnancy, it may increase her child’s risk of high-functioning autism, a new study suggests.
But the raised risk was slight, experts said. And researchers found no association between maternal smoking and more severe forms of autism.
What the findings suggest is that although autism spectrum disorders share many of the same symptoms, subtypes of the disorder likely have many different genetic and environmental causes that vary from person to person and by type of autism, explained study author Amy Kalkbrenner, an assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Zilber School of Public Health.
“We know ‘autism spectrum disorders’ is an umbrella term.
I recently had a “smoothie day”. I took a break from my low carb diet, which tends for me to not have enough fiber to keep things moving along. Som