I guess if there ever was a good healthy reason for walking then the latest reseach from the University of South Carolina has to be up there among the top three. After a five year research study of 6,278 adults researchers found that a brisk walk of two and a half hours spread across a week cuts the risk of high blood pressure by a quarter percent, and it does not stop there. The research [...]

Well back in June 2009 I posted about the benefits eating dark chocolate given to those who suffered from high blood pressure. In the post I wrote of how I had tried eating the chocolate to see if the claim was true. It turned out to be just that (true) it did actually lower my slightly raised blood pressure and has continued to do so. Well, it is now February 2010 almost eight months later [...]