Easy Health Tip of the Day:

Give your massive handbag the ‘ol heave-ho to lower blood pressure.

Why?

Because wearing a heavy bag compresses the veins in your shoulders and increases your BP in as little as 10 minutes! So imagine the kind of damage you could be doing during an all-day shopping marathon. Aye Chihuahua!

The fix? A lighter bag (duh) or one with a strap over two inches wide to help distribute the bag’s weight more evenly. A clutch or backpack would work, too.

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Love the buzz of a Red Bull or Rock Star? If you have high blood pressure, you may want to fall out of love…quickly!

A study by Wayne State University in Michigan which was recently presented at the American Heart Association found that the blood pressure and heart rates of healthy adults increased after they downed 2 cans of energy drinks a day. Most of these drinks, of course, are packed to the gills with caffeine and taurine, an amino acid which can adversely affect the heart.

The important thing to note about this study is that it was done with healthy adults. And though the study subjects did not see dangerous levels of bp and heart rate increases, the increase that was seen could potentially be enough to put someone already suffering with (or at risk for) high blood pressure over that “dangerous” threshold. You don’t want to be that person, do you? Me either.

So, one more thing we must be aware of. My apologies to all you high blood pressure-having Red Bull addicts out there. Just please, please don’t shoot the messenger, hey?

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