No-sweat keys to a healthy heart

Keeping your blood pressure, triglycerides and cholesterol in a healthy range cuts your heart attack risk, sharpens your memory and can even add up to 14 healthy years to your life, suggests JAMA research. And it's easy!

- Ann Green

Tip!

Listening to 30 minutes of music you love daily tames tension, improving blood-vessel flexibility as effectively as statins, a study in Circulation found

Lower blood pressure with olive leaf extract

A study in Phytomedicine found that taking 1,000 mg. of olive leaf extract daily lowers systolic blood pressure (the top number) by 11 points and diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number) by 5 points in eight weeks results on par with an Rx. The extract's oleuropein and oleacein block enzymes from narrowing blood vessels. Try: NAOMI BP Advanced (Naomi W.com).