Secrets to lower blood pressure

Sure, keeping a lid on your blood pressure protects your heart. After all, doing so has been shown to slash heart disease risk by 60%.

- Melissa Gotthardt

But when blood pressure is in the healthy range, other organs are optimized too: Risk of kidney and liver diseases drop, as do odds of hearing and vision loss. Plus, findings in Cardiology Research and Practice suggest life expectancy soars by up to 16 years. And though hormonal changes after 50 can up women’s hypertension odds, you can combat the climb. Just…

Top tacos with guacamole

Or spoon up potato salad. Avocados and potatoes pack a payload of potassium, a mineral with powerful pressure- easing effects. In fact, a Canadian study in the journal