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    Wednesday, April 21, 2010

    BLOOD PRESSURE

    People who reduced body fat by 2% reduced blood pressure 8/6 mm Hg

    Reducing body fat lowers blood pressure even without a change in body weight according to a 1998 study.

    People who reduced their percent body fat by 2 percent reduced their blood pressure by 8/6 points after one year from 149/92 to 141/86 mm Hg.

    However, in patients who had a similar reduction in body fat without a change in body weight had a similar reduction in blood pressure of 11/6 from 151/93 to 140/87 mm Hg.

    This suggests that it is excess body fat rather than body weight that causes elevated blood pressure.



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    By Larry Hobbs on Wed, Apr 21, 2010 10:27 am | [0] comments

    Wednesday, March 17, 2010

    FRUCTOSE

    200 grams of fructose per day for two weeks raised blood pressure 7/6 mm Hg

    Men who were given 200 grams of fructose per day for two weeks had an average increase in blood pressure from 128/78 to 135/84 mm Hg, an increase of 7/6 mm Hg according to a new study.



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    By Larry Hobbs on Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:55 am | [0] comments

    Friday, January 29, 2010

    HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

    Treating High Blood Pressure: What Can You Believe? By Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

    For those of us who enjoy the use of weasel words and non-scientific rubbish dressed up as fact, this is indeed a grand territory to explore…. 

    I have written about hypertension a couple of times. So I thought that I should throw my hat into the ring about the controversy surrounding the ALLHAT trial. A trial which wins my official tortuous acronym award? ALLHAT stands for the Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering treatment to prevent Heart Attack Trial.

    (This article was written by Malcolm Kendrick, MD, author of the wonderful, eye-opening, paradigm-shifting book The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It .)



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    By Larry Hobbs on Fri, Jan 29, 2010 1:58 pm | [0] comments

    HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

    The New Hypertension Guidelines [as of 2003] By Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

    I write this before I have read all the details on the new Heart Lung and Blood Institute guidelines on raised blood pressure [as of 2003]. But there has been enough information flying around to know what they are saying. Frankly, I knew what these guidelines were going to say before the committee met for the first time. Before, in fact, the members of the committee even knew they were going to be on the committee.

    Now we are all to be officially ill.

    (This article was written by Malcolm Kendrick, MD, author of the wonderful, eye-opening, paradigm-shifting book The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It .)



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    By Larry Hobbs on Fri, Jan 29, 2010 8:23 am | [0] comments

    Wednesday, January 27, 2010

    HYPERTENSION IS A SYMPTOM, NOT A DISEASE

    High Blood Pressure: It’s A Symptom, Not A Disease, Stupid! By Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

    Let’s suppose that one day you went to the doctor and she decided to take your temperature, just to see what it was. To your surprise it was two degrees higher than normal. As we all know, a high temperature is associated with a higher than normal level of mortality, so the doctor decided to use a drug to get your temperature down, along with advice to wear less clothes and take cold baths.

    Time passes and you have been on this drug for five years. The baths and chilly walks are getting to be a bit of a pain. On the bright side, at least the temperature is back to normal.

    I think you would agree that such a scenario is, quite frankly, nuts.

    (This article was written by Malcolm Kendrick, MD, author of the wonderful, eye-opening, paradigm-shifting book The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It .)



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    By Larry Hobbs on Wed, Jan 27, 2010 12:38 pm | [0] comments

    Saturday, December 05, 2009

    POTASSIUM & SODIUM

    People consuming the most potassium were 35% less liikely to die from coronary heart disease

    The one-fifth of people consuming the most potassium were 35% less likely to die from coronary heart disease than the one-fifth of people consuming the least.

    The top one-fifth consumed an average of 3363 mg of potassium per day versus 1720 mg per day for the bottom one-fifth.

    Hi, this is Larry Hobbs @ FatNews.com

    The one-fifth of people consuming the most sodium versus the one-fifth consuming the least were:

    • 42 percent more likely to have cardiovascular disease
    • 55 percent more likely to have a stroke of any kind
    • 104 percent more likely to have an ischemic stroke (2X as likely).

    The top one-fifth consumed 6523 mg of sodium per day versus 2322 mg per day for the bottom one-fifth.



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    By Larry Hobbs on Sat, Dec 05, 2009 4:47 pm | [8] comments

    Monday, October 19, 2009

    TYPE 2 HYPOTHYROIDISM

    Type 2 Hypothyroidism can cause high blood pressure notes Mark Starr, MD

    Type 2 Hypothyroidism can cause high blood pressure (hypertension) according to Mark Starr, MD author of the wonderful book Hypothyroidism Type 2: The Epidemic.



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    By Larry Hobbs on Mon, Oct 19, 2009 11:20 am | [0] comments

    Friday, October 02, 2009

    HYPERTENSION

    Prevalence of hypertension increases with body weight

    The prevalence of hypertension increases as body weight increases as found in a study of 56784 men aged 18-25 years, entering the Swiss army.
    The prevalence of obesity by weight category was as follows:

    • 12.5% in underweight men with BMI less than 18.5
    • 23.9% in normal weight men with a BMI less than 18.5 to 24.9
    • 37.6% in overweight men with a BMI of 25 to 29.9
    • 49.7% in obese men with a BMI of 30 to 34.9
    • 56.7% in obese men with a BMI of 35 to 39.9
    • 54.2% in underweight men with a BMI of 40 or greater



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    By Larry Hobbs on Fri, Oct 02, 2009 1:24 pm | [0] comments

    Tuesday, September 22, 2009

    RICHARD MOORE, MD, PHD

    Richard Moore, MD, PhD; Diabetes problems are NOT caused by high blood sugar

    “[H]igh blood glucose in diabetes is NOT the cause of the pathology,” wrote Richard Moore, MD, PhD, professor and research scientist, and author of the book “The High Blood Pressure Solution”.

    In other words, health problems associated with diabetes are NOT caused by high blood sugar. 



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    By Larry Hobbs on Tue, Sep 22, 2009 2:09 pm | [0] comments

    RICHARD MOORE, MD, PHD

    Richard Moore, MD, PhD; Diuretics reduce blood pressure by excreting sodium

    “[T]hiazide diuretics lower blood pressure because they get sodium out of the body (through the kidneys),” notes wrote Richard Moore, MD, PhD, professor and research scientist, and author of the book “The High Blood Pressure Solution”.



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    By Larry Hobbs on Tue, Sep 22, 2009 11:59 am | [0] comments

    RICHARD MOORE, MD, PHD

    Richard Moore, MD, PhD; 3 newer blood pressure drugs had worse health outcome than diuretics

    “[A blood pressure study called the ALLHAT study found that three newer blood pressure drugs] had far worse health outcomes than the original, cheap thiazide diuretics,” wrote Richard Moore, MD, PhD, professor and research scientist, and author of the book “The High Blood Pressure Solution”.

    “As one author of the paper wrote, ‘We cant say whether the diuretics were better than—or not as bad as—the other groups of drugs.”

    “Since it is well established that thiazide diuretics often cause diabetes, it well may be the later.”



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    By Larry Hobbs on Tue, Sep 22, 2009 11:23 am | [0] comments

    Monday, September 21, 2009

    RICHARD MOORE, MD, PHD

    Richard Moore, MD, PhD: There is no evidence that blood pressure drugs reduce the risk of death

    “In my book, ‘The High Blood Pressure Solution’, you will find that [there] is no evidence that antihypertensive drugs save lives,” wrote Richard Moore, MD, PhD, professor and research scientist,

    “[In fact,] the very best study ever done of drug treatment of 17,000 hypertensives over a five year period found ‘no overall reduction in death rate’ in those treated with drugs.”



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    By Larry Hobbs on Mon, Sep 21, 2009 2:55 pm | [0] comments

    RICHARD MOORE, MD, PHD

    Richard Moore, MD, PhD: Drugs are not the answer to hypertension

    In 1986, professor and research scientist, Richard Moore, MD, PhD, showed in his book “The K Factor: Reversing and Preventing High Blood Pressure Without Drugs”, that 95% of the cases of hypertension are due to a low ratio of potassium to sodium in the American diet.

    “We did not emphasize it, but since you can’t repair a dietary deficiency with a synthetic chemical [a drug] this clearly indicated that drugs are not the answer for hypertension,” Dr. Moore noted.

    Dr. Moore also notes that back in the 1980’s, the largest blood pressure drug study to-date at that time, which included “17,000 people over a 5-year period, demonstrated that lowering blood pressure with drugs had zero effect on over-all mortality!”



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    By Larry Hobbs on Mon, Sep 21, 2009 12:54 pm | [0] comments

    Monday, August 31, 2009

    DIURETIC + BETA BLOCKER

    Women taking a Diuretic + Beta Blocker 21% MORE likely to die of cardiovascular disease

    Women taking a diuretic plus a beta blocker were 21% more likely to die of cardiovascular disease during the 5.9 year follow-up than women taking NO blood pressure medicines even though the average systolic pressure was 15 points LOWER in the drug group than the no drug group (134 mm Hg vs 149 mm Hg) according to a 2004 study.

    To say this the other way, women taking women taking NO blood pressure medicines were 18% LESS likely to die of cardiovascular disease during the 5.9 year follow-up than women taking a diuretic plus a beta blocker.

    (YouTube videos are limited to 10 minutes, so I had to split the video into 2 parts.)



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    By Larry Hobbs on Mon, Aug 31, 2009 12:32 pm | [0] comments

    DIURETIC + ACE INHIBITOR

    Women taking a Diuretic + ACE Inhibitor 12% MORE likely to die of cardiovascular disease

    Women taking a diuretic plus an ACE inhibitor were 12% more likely to die of cardiovascular disease during the 5.9 year follow-up than women taking NO blood pressure medicines even though the average systolic pressure was 16 points LOWER in the drug group than the no drug group (133 mm Hg vs 149 mm Hg) according to a 2004 study.

    To say this the other way, women taking women taking NO blood pressure medicines were 11% LESS likely to die of cardiovascular disease during the 5.9 year follow-up than women taking a diuretic plus an ACE inhibitor.

    (YouTube videos are limited to 10 minutes, so I had to split the video into 2 parts.)



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    By Larry Hobbs on Mon, Aug 31, 2009 7:32 am | [0] comments

    Friday, August 14, 2009

    DIURETIC + CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKER

    Women taking a Diuretic + Calcium Channel Blocker 136% MORE likely to die of cardiovascular

    Women taking a diuretic plus a calcium channel blocker were 2.4 times MORE likely (136% more likely) to die of cardiovascular disease during the 5.9 year follow-up than women taking NO blood pressure medicines even though the average systolic pressure was 11 points LOWER in the drug group than the no drug group (138 mm Hg vs 149 mm Hg) according to a 2004 study.

    To say this the other way, women taking women taking NO blood pressure medicines were 58% LESS likely to die of cardiovascular disease during the 5.9 year follow-up than women taking a diuretic plus a calcium channel blocker.

    (YouTube videos are limited to 10 minutes, so I had to split the video into 2 parts.)



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    By Larry Hobbs on Fri, Aug 14, 2009 10:43 am | [0] comments

    Wednesday, August 12, 2009

    CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS

    Women on Calcium Channel Blockers 74% MORE likely to die of cardiovascular disease than no drugs

    Women taking a calcium channel blocker were 74% MORE likely to die of cardiovascular disease during the 5.9 year follow-up than women taking NO blood pressure medicines NO blood pressure medicines even though the average systolic pressure was 10 points LOWER in the drug group than the no drug group (139 mm Hg vs 149 mm Hg) according to a 2004 study.

    To say this the other way, women taking women taking NO blood pressure medicines were 43% LESS likely to die of cardiovascular disease during the 5.9 year follow-up than women taking a calcium channel blocker.



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    By Larry Hobbs on Wed, Aug 12, 2009 8:26 am | [0] comments

    ACE INHIBITORS

    Women taking an ACE Inhibitor 4% MORE likely to die of cardiovascular disease than women on NO drugs

    Women taking an ACE Inhibitor were 4% MORE likely to die of cardiovascular disease during the 5.9 year follow-up than women taking NO blood pressure medicines even though the average systolic pressure was 12 points LOWER in the drug group than the no drug group (137 mm Hg vs 149 mm Hg) according to a 2004 study.

    To say this the other way, women taking women taking NO blood pressure medicines were 4% LESS likely to die of cardiovascular disease during the 5.9 year follow-up than women taking an ACE Inhibitor.



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    By Larry Hobbs on Wed, Aug 12, 2009 7:10 am | [0] comments

    Saturday, August 08, 2009

    DIURETICS

    Women taking diuretics were 9% MORE likely to die of cardiovascular disease than with no drugs

    Older, hypertensive women taking a diuretic were 9% MORE likely to die of cardiovascular disease during a 5.9 year follow-up than similar women taking NO blood pressure medicines even though the average systolic pressure was 13 points LOWER in the drug group than the no drug group (136 mm Hg vs 149 mm Hg) according to a 2004 study.

    Let me say this the other way.

    Women, 50- to 79-years-old with high blood pressure and no history of cardiovascular disease who were NOT taking any drugs for blood pressure were 8% LESS likely to die of cardiovascular disease during a 5.9 year follow-up than similar women taking a diuretic even though the average systolic pressure of the women taking NO blood pressure medicines was 13 points HIGHER than those taking a diuretic. (149 mm Hg vs 136 mm Hg)

    (YouTube videos are limited to 10 minutes, so I had to split the video into 3 parts.)



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    By Larry Hobbs on Sat, Aug 08, 2009 11:11 am | [0] comments

    Wednesday, August 05, 2009

    BETA BLOCKERS

    Women taking a Beta Blocker 15% LESS likely to die of cardiovascular disease than with no drugs

    Women taking a beta blocker were 15% less likely to die of cardiovascular disease during the 5.9 year follow-up than women taking NO blood pressure medicines according to a 2004 study.

    The average systolic pressure was 11 points LOWER in the drug group than the no drug group (136 mm Hg vs 149 mm Hg).

    To say this the other way, women taking women taking NO blood pressure medicines were 17% MORE likely to die of cardiovascular disease during the 5.9 year follow-up than women taking a beta blocker.

    (YouTube videos are limited to 10 minutes, so I had to split the video into 2 parts.)



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    By Larry Hobbs on Wed, Aug 05, 2009 5:19 pm | [0] comments

    Monday, June 22, 2009

    UCLA’s Sid Port #1: The belief that lower your blood pressure, the lower your risk of death is WRONG

    The belief that “the higher your blood pressure, the higher your risk of death, and the lower your blood pressure, the lower the risk of death” is WRONG.

    This according to a brilliant paper from UCLA statistician, Sid Port, PhD.



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    By Larry Hobbs on Mon, Jun 22, 2009 2:03 pm | [0] comments

    UCLA’s Sid Port #1: The belief that lower your blood pressure, the lower your risk of death is WRONG

    The belief that “the higher your blood pressure, the higher your risk of death, and the lower your blood pressure, the lower the risk of death” is WRONG.

    This according to a brilliant paper from UCLA statistician, Sid Port, PhD.



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    By Larry Hobbs on Mon, Jun 22, 2009 2:03 pm | [0] comments

    UCLA’s Sid Port #1: The belief that lower your blood pressure, the lower your risk of death is WRONG

    The belief that “the higher your blood pressure, the higher your risk of death, and the lower your blood pressure, the lower the risk of death” is WRONG.

    This according to a brilliant paper from UCLA statistician, Sid Port, PhD.



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    By Larry Hobbs on Mon, Jun 22, 2009 2:03 pm | [0] comments

    UCLA’s Sid Port #1: The belief that lower your blood pressure, the lower your risk of death is WRONG

    The belief that “the higher your blood pressure, the higher your risk of death, and the lower your blood pressure, the lower the risk of death” is WRONG.

    This according to a brilliant paper from UCLA statistician, Sid Port, PhD.



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    By Larry Hobbs on Mon, Jun 22, 2009 2:03 pm | [0] comments

    Saturday, June 20, 2009

    LOSARTAN

    Editorial on blood pressure drug Cozaar (losartan) is deceptive and disturbing notes Franz Messeri

    [A statement made in a editorial about the blood pressure drug Cozaar (losartan)] is “disturbing.” …

    “The authors seemingly want us to believe… [this] deceptive statement.”

    -- Franz Messerli, MD, European Heart Journal, 2003.



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