Grapes Help Keep Our Hearts Healthy

Fruits are known to be beneficial to our health and body. Each fruit contains essential nutrients and vitamins that helps different parts of our body.

Grapes are among the fruits known to be very healthy. A new research was conducted to find out if grapes could really help to fight hypertension from a salty diet. Results shows that grapes may have an effect in lowering blood pressure, enhancing heart function, reducing inflammation and lessening heart muscle damage. The effect is thought to be due to the high level of flavonoids in grapes.

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Transcedental Meditation Can Help Your Heart

More and more people around the world are suffering from high blood pressure or hypertension. Heart Attack and cardiovascular diseases are still one of the leading death causes around the world. That is why researchers continuously looks for new ways on how to fight this disease.

Researchers from Maharishi University of Management College of Maharishi Vedic Medicine and University of California conducted a research to study the effect of Transcedental Meditation (TM) to hypertensive patients.

National Cancer Institute defines Transcedental Meditation as "A mental technique used to promote relaxation, reduce stress, and improve quality of life. Transcendental Meditation is the registered trademark of the Maharishi Foundation Ltd. Also called TM."

Researchers found out that the hypertensive patients who does TM has reduced artery wall thickness than those who just take the medicines prescribed by their doctors. Patients who have used TM have lesser chances of having a heart attack compared to those who didn't meditate.

TM can be done for 20 minutes twice a day. TM.org defines it as " a simple, natural procedure to contact your inner reservoir of creativity, energy and intelligence on a daily basis."

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