Tag: high blood pressure
Salty foods are making people sick − in part by poisoning...
Christopher Damman, University of Washington
People have been using salt since the dawn of civilization to process, preserve and...
BMI alone will no longer be treated as the go-to measure...
Scott Hagan, University of Washington
Amid the buzz around weight loss drugs and rising rates of obesity worldwide, many...
Obesity in children is rising dramatically, and it comes with major...
Christine Nguyen, University of Southern California
In the past two decades, children have become more obese and have developed...
Many Americans wrongly assume they understand what normal blood pressure is...
Wändi Bruine de Bruin, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Mark Huffman, Washington University in St Louis
Sitting all day is terrible for your health – now, a...
Keith Diaz, Columbia University
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Limited eating times could be a new way to fight obesity...
Satchin Panda, University of California San Diego and Pam Taub, University of California San Diego
People with obesity, high blood sugar, high blood pressure or...
Can sitting less decrease your risk of heart disease?
Gautam Ramesh, University of California San Diego; Andrea LaCroix, University of California San Diego, and John Bellettiere, University of California San Diego
Too much sitting...
The latest blood pressure guidelines: What they mean for you
John Warner, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Updated blood pressure guidelines from the American Heart Association mean that many more Americans, notably older people, are now...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
