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American Dietetic Association Officially Becomes Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
New name, same commitment to public's nutritional health
CHICAGO, Jan. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Dietetic Association, the world's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals, has officially changed its name to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Global Survey Shows Outlook Worsening for Nearly 100 Million People With the Most Challenging Form of Hypertension
ERLANGEN, Germany and BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite ongoing medical care, an alarming 65 percent of people with 'treatment-resistant' hypertension reported in a new survey that high blood pressure remains their most serious health concern, and 79 percent of the respondents said they need new treatment options to get their dangerously high blood pressure under control.
Is chocolate a treatment for high blood pressure?
I've been having problems with high blood pressure for quite a while, especially since I became a truck driver five years ago. I guess the connection is that I sit and don't get enough exercise. I went off my blood pressure medicine about two months ago, and it's really been a challenge to keep my diastolic pressure in the 80s.
"The Best Health Advice I Ever Got"
It's that time of year again when many of us take stock of our lives and try to make things better. Fresh out of ideas? If anyone knows the best ways to get healthy and stay that way, it's the country's top doctors. To get the 411 on what they do to stay healthy, we asked four leading physicians to share the best health advice they ever received. Here's what they told us:
High blood pressure treatment just got cheaper
WASHINGTON — For many of the one-in-three American adults who have high blood pressure, a cheaper alternative to brand-name medications is about to become available.
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