How Caffeine and Alcohol Affect Your Blood Pressure
Ask someone what they can do to address high blood pressure (aka hypertension), and the first answer is nearly always something like “cut back on…
Approaches for Addressing High Blood Pressure
How much can our health behaviours affect blood pressure? Everyone responds differently, but this chart gives averages from clinical studies for people who have high…
Watching Your Sodium? 5 Surprising Ways to Boost Flavour
Did you ever notice that people think about salt, sugar, and other demonized foods in all or nothing terms? They’re either good or bad, in…
7 Summer Salt Swaps (Say That Ten Times Fast)
Health Canada released a report yesterday, “Sodium Intake of Canadians in 2017.” Three guesses as to how well we’re doing. No surprise, it’s not pretty….
New Blood Pressure Guidelines – What You May Not Hear From Your Doctor
I’m not suggesting that there’s a sinister conspiracy to hide anything. Not at all. It’s just that doctors often have more problems to sort out…
Sodium: Do You Really Need to Worry About It?
Note from Cheryl: Thanks to media coverage of questions about the health effects of sodium, I’m running into more and more people who think it doesn’t…
