Over the years, a lot of medical opinions change.  One of these opinions involves whether or not weight lifting increases blood pressure.  Weight Lifting actually does not increase your blood pressure in the the long run.  It actually lowers it because you have more muscle and your heart doesn’t have to work as hard.  You will increase your blood pressure in the interim will lifting weights but this is normal.  You will want to make sure not to hold your breath.
The “ideal” blood pressure is 120/80 or less and just yesterday I had mine taken and I was 120/78 so …read more

That’s right.  Got the results from my physical last week, and they were awesome. I am never sure–at least not since my bout with breast cancer a few years back–how the test results are going to come out.  But I felt pretty good going in, and I have been working hard to change my diet, de-stress whenever possible, and just plain take care of myself.
After meeting with my doctor, one message came through loud and clear–my diet is doing amazing things for my health.  I grew up a die-hard, meat-eating carnivore.  In my late 20s I changed that up somewhat, my thirties, even more so.  …read more