Vinegar has always tasted great with french fries and made your glassware sparkle, but the miracle liquid’s amazing natural remedies and natural cures were unknown to many.

In ‘The Healing Powers of Vinegar’, by Cal Orey, readers will discover countless vinegar benefits and natural remedies.

Nutrition aside, vinegar has been a trusted natural remedy that your mother, grandmother, and their grandmothers have known.

The natural cures it provides can be used from head to toe.

Scalp problems such as dandruff, athlete’s foot, yeast infections, even headaches are no match for this natural remedy.

Vinegar can also be used as a cosmetic natural remedy to produce natural cures that help protect and beautify your skin!

New evidence shows that both red wine and apple cider vinegar benefit everybody.

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Indian citizens, who go to their workplace either by cycling or walking, are less likely to be overweight or obese, or suffer from diabetes or high blood pressure, a study has claimed.

Researchers from Imperial College London and the Public Health Foundation of India said that these findings suggested that encouraging more people to use physically active modes of transport could reduce rates of important risk factors for many chronic diseases.

Physical activity and health information was collected from almost 4,000 participants in the Indian Migration Study.

The study found that 68.3 per cent of people in rural areas cycled and 11.9 percent walked to their workplace, compared with 15.9 percent who cycled, and 12.5 percent who walked in urban areas.

However, 50 percent of people who travelled to work by private transport and 38 percent who took public transport were overweight, compared with only 25 percent of people who walked or cycled to work.

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Calculating your target heart rate can help you maximise your workout for great results!

What is a target heart rate?

Target heart rate is an optimal heart rate used by gym users or fitness enthusiasts that enables people to achieve optimal workout results.Heart rate changes during physical exercise and the more intensive the exercise, the faster the heart rate. Due to a change of heart rate, the supply of blood and oxygen to the body cells also changes.

“Target heart rate is that optimal state where the body functions most efficiently, can adapt well to changes of physical intensity during an exercise, and is a measure of improved physical fitness.” The target heart rate range differs for men and women and also depends on the person’s current physical condition and past training.

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Quitting smoke, limiting alcohol, eating more fruits and vegetables, and keeping your weight, blood pressure, and blood sugar in check, can lower your likelihood of stroke.

Still, there are eight lesser-known ways to protect yourself, based on research, ABC News reported.

Walk 20 minutes a day. We know—you work, you have kids, errands to run, dinner to make, and an episode of Real Housewives to watch, but make the time.

Even if you break it up into two 10-minute sessions, it’s worth it.

Walking a total of 2 hours a week can cut your stroke risk by 30 percent, according to a large study of nearly 40,000 women, conducted over a 12-year period.

Walk briskly (so you can talk but not sing) and your chances are reduced by almost 40 percent.

Know the difference between sad and depressed. The latter makes you 29 percent more likely to suffer from stroke, says a new study of more than 80,000 women.

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A new study has revealed that making small lifestyle changes could reduce your risk of having a stroke.

Researchers assessed stroke risk using the American Heart Association’s Life’s Simple 7 health factors: be active, control cholesterol, eat a healthy diet, manage blood pressure, maintain a healthy weight, control blood sugar and don’t smoke.

“We used the assessment tool to look at stroke risk and found that small differences in health status were associated with large reductions in stroke risk,” Mary Cushman, M.D., M.Sc., senior author and professor of medicine at the University of Vermont in Burlington said.

Researchers divided the Life’s Simple 7 scores into three categories: zero to four points for inadequate, five to nine points for average, and 10 to 14 points for optimum cardiovascular health.

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A new study has found that yoga can benefit people who are looking to lower their high blood pressure.

A study presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Hypertension shows that practicing yoga could help decrease blood pressure in people with mild to moderate hypertension, the Huffington Post reported.

“So far it looks very promising that yoga might be a useful therapy for patients with mild-to-moderate hypertension who want to avoid using medication,” study researcher Dr. Debbie Cohen, M.D., of the University of Pennsylvania, told MedPage Today.

“This could also be used as an adjunct to other lifestyle modifications,” she said.

The study included 120 people with an average age of 50, 58 of whom completed the study.

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High blood pressure can boost the risks of leading killers such as heart attack and stroke, as well as aneurysms, cognitive decline, and kidney failure.

While medication can lower blood pressure, it may cause side effects such as leg cramps, dizziness, and insomnia. Luckily, most people can bring down their blood pressure naturally without medication.

Here are top 10 natural alternatives to prescribed drugs, according to ABC News.

Go for power walks: Hypertensive patients who went for fitness walks at a brisk pace lowered pressure by almost 8 mmhg over 6 mmhg. Exercise helps the heart use oxygen more efficiently, so it doesn”t work as hard to pump blood.

Slow breathing and meditative practices such as qigong, yoga, and tai chi decrease stress hormones, which elevate renin, a kidney enzyme that raises blood pressure.

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A new research has suggested that frequency of candy consumption is not associated with weight or certain adverse health risks.

According to a recent data analysis, adults who consume candy at least every other day are no more likely to be overweight nor have greater risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) than moderate consumers (about once a week) or even less frequent candy eaters (less than 3 times per month).

Almost all adults reported eating candy, but there is variability in frequency and quantity consumed at a given time. Previous research has shown that candy consumers are not more likely to be overweight or have greater risk factors for chronic disease than non-consumers of candy.

This research showed that even the consumers who reported eating the most candy on a given day were not more likely to be at risk for increased weight or disease. Such findings were surprising and required further investigation which this new study set out to do, delving into the role of usual frequency of candy consumption and health/weight outcomes.

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Hypertension, also called the ‘silent killer’ can be managed and prevented by making some low-cost lifestyle changes.

Hypertension or high Blood Pressure, as it is commonly called, is a condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is chronically elevated.

With each heartbeat, heart pumps blood through the arteries to the body. Blood pressure is the pressure or force with which blood is pushed against the walls of the blood vessels.

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Mobile phone calls may cause a rise in blood pressure; yoga may lower it; and despite the need to cut back on sodium to lower blood pressure, hypertensive individuals may have an increased desire for saltier foods.

These are the findings of new studies to be discussed at the 28th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Society of Hypertension (ASH) in San Francisco, starting May 15 – 18, 2013.

Members of the medical community from across the globe will discuss the about high blood pressure, considered as the “silent killer,” and which affects approximately one billion people worldwide.

During the conference, more than 200 new studies about hypertension will be shared, with the goal of increasing the understanding of hypertension and one day curing it altogether.

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