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More doesn't bring more!

by Dr.Harald Wiesendanger– Klartext What the mainstream media is hiding Of course, exercise is healthy. But more doesn’t help; on the contrary: too much physical activity, such as intensive fitness training, is not good for anyone. Excessive consumption promotes heart disease and reduces life expectancy. You waste time and effort without benefiting. An American doctor backs up this surprising…

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Which kind of tea, green tea or black tea, is better for lowering blood pressure?

Lowering blood pressure can be quite challenging, and many people with hypertension can relate to this. Every millimeter of mercury (mmHg) reduction in blood pressure is a long-term gift obtained through strict medication adherence, a healthy diet, and moderate exercise.

However, scientists have discovered a group of people who can easily lower their blood pressure with a simple and small habit. After just 12 weeks, they achieved significant blood pressure reduction.

They found that long-term tea consumption reduced the average systolic and diastolic blood pressure by 1.8 mmHg and 1.4 mmHg, respectively.

So, which type of tea is best for lowering blood pressure?

Part 1: Although there are many types of tea in the market, such as green tea, black tea, oolong tea, white tea, yellow tea, and chrysanthemum tea, most studies on the relationship between tea consumption and blood pressure focus on green tea and black tea.

Researchers from the Fuwai Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences published a meta-analysis in the British Journal of Nutrition, which included 25 relevant studies and 1,476 participants. They found that people who drank green tea had a significant reduction in systolic blood pressure by 2.1 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure by 1.7 mmHg. In contrast, those who drank black tea had a reduction of 1.4 mmHg in systolic blood pressure and 1.1 mmHg in diastolic blood pressure. Therefore, long-term consumption of green tea seems to be more effective in controlling blood pressure.

Another meta-analysis by foreign scholars also found that green tea had a more significant blood pressure-lowering effect than black tea.

Frequent consumption is key

Although many studies suggest that tea consumption can help lower blood pressure, this does not mean that people with hypertension who do not have a tea-drinking habit can immediately lower their blood pressure by drinking a cup of tea. After all, tea is not medicine.

Researchers from the Fuwai Hospital found that acute tea intake had no effect on systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Blood pressure reduction only became significant after drinking tea for more than 12 weeks, with systolic blood pressure decreasing by 2.6 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure decreasing by 2.2 mmHg.

In addition to "long-term," some scholars suggest that the frequency of tea consumption is also related to blood pressure reduction. Hodgson et al. evaluated the effect of long-term regular tea consumption on blood pressure in older women. A total of 218 women over 70 years old were included in the study. The results showed that tea intake was related to a significant reduction in systolic and diastolic blood pressure. An increase of 250 ml/day (one cup) of tea intake was associated with a 2.2 mmHg reduction in systolic blood pressure and a 0.9 mmHg reduction in diastolic blood pressure.

This suggests that frequent tea consumption may have a beneficial effect on blood pressure in older women.

Furthermore, a study on blood pressure and tea consumption in the elderly population in Jiangsu, China, involving 4,579 participants, found a significant negative correlation between tea consumption frequency and systolic and diastolic blood pressure after adjusting for age, sex, lifestyle, and other factors.

In conclusion, although many studies have shown that tea consumption can help lower blood pressure, it is important not to make the tea too strong.

[starrysharks]

hotel manager

[orangerosebush]

Post-TTP, both Artemis and Butler have been marked by their adventures with the People. This scene has been (more or less) the basis of my headcanon that in the later books, Artemis experiences chronic pain.

[tomatoluvr69]

I feel like the drastic lifestyle change coping options for me this winter will be:

a) start eating organ meat from my roommate’s work*

b) get into trail running in the mountains at 7:00 AM on weekends

c) crochet a blanket

d) swing from being a staunch Trader Joe’s avoider to one of those people whose every bite of food comes from the trader

e) break another rib

*farm school roommate, NOT ecoburial roommate

[odd-chips]

✨ 🎵 Pump Up The Jams, Baby!! 💪🏿 ✨

If you wanted a workout filled with confusing instructions, supernatural strength, and songs belted out by a tone-deaf rat with a lisp, you've got the right VHS! 😤

[lightdancer1]

One of the big reasons I think that it's always a bit of a bad thing to forget the Endless really aren't human:

Is because, and I admit here that this is from the POV of someone who does most, if not quite all, of my fanfics from a Death-centric perspective flip both because Gaiman did Dream well and like prequel Anakin there is only so much man pain and mangst I can take before wanting to reach through the screen and strangle the son of a bitch. Disliking Dream as a wangsty jackass who is the architect of almost all of his own problems does not mean being blind to how dysfunctional the Endless as a whole are.

Yet at the end of the day Dream is not your pantsfeels, he's the in-universe true architect of fear and maker of all nightmares, the guy who casually sends a woman to Hell because she told him no. He is inhuman and fickle and dangerous for any mortals that cross his path.......and as a being of story he is also bound by story-logic to pursue the path that makes the better story at the expense of multiple logical and even emotional reactions.

And in terms of this Dream is not really so different to the rest of the family. Even Destruction, when he walks off, very much remains an Endless and is still Destruction. He doesn't become human, he doesn't give up his powers and he goes into a long rambling set of justifications on that and believing simultaneously that the Endless interfere too much in human affairs and turns his group of friends into a minefield to ensure he stays hidden. Destruction, in short, is a flaming hypocrite at best and should not be taken as the reliable one true truth. None of the Seven Endless are that.

So what does all this have to do with Death? Simple. She will outlive the universe and Death of the Endless will be a title and a moment in time. Unlike any of the others she did outright completely quit and walked out and where Dream's captivity and Destruction's hippie moment didn't cause immediate unraveling of reality as opposed to the realm Death did. She is unlike the other six in ways that would and do contribute to why there's so much talking past each other.

The other six, even Destruction, all see their natures as intertwined with their functions, spheres, and all that go with them. Every hundred years for a day Death gives up all that power and becomes fully, truly mortal. She takes the step none of the others can bring themselves to do, and in spite of being the one that outlives the universe, she has died the most of all her kin and the DCU being what it is probably more than a few of those deaths were not pleasant ones. And this is without the equally logical assumption based on Overture that we only see the Earth mortal day, that there were and are such days on all worlds, in all forms of life.

And as I've brought this up before, too, Death's little apartment is not her realm. The realm is only glimpsed partially once, in her second miniseries and it looks every bit as dark as a realm called 'sunless lands' would. With the exception of Destruction all the other realms are seen in detail and not just a partial glimpse. Death has that detachment from that realm, which is as much a part of her as she of it.

In short, unlike the rest of her siblings I think Death is if anything in the comics the least truly focused on duty and much as I consider the 'none of them came for me' to be a good example of Dream's self-serving hypocrisy as he'd hate and scorn and react violently to anyone that actually did and Gaiman is repeatedly on record as noting that, I see the 'our purpose is our function' line as a bit of self-serving hypocrisy in the interest of cheering up her brother. Death couldn't and doesn't take dealing with her function or being an Endless well. She walked out, she keeps trying to turn herself mortal, she will one day continue to exist but no longer be an Endless.

Thus in the end, there is a great irony here. Dream is too rigidly bound by duty to ever truly entertain the idea that he could leave and figure out how to do so short of dying. Death is too frantically eager to discard her Endless status to figure out why anyone would, given the choice, choose to remain one even if it hurts them.

[justatumblinweed]

Goddammit.

Look. I love modern medicine. It's great.

But can Albuterol please fucking not with the shakes. I am trying to figure out whether the whole mystery breathing issue is getting worse thank you and the anxiety-adjacent side effects are not helping knock it off.

[chesacakeripper]

Officially into week 4 of regular gym attendance 🥲

[gotyouanyway]

did pt this morning and died so bad i don't think i can sail this summer if i'll ever be able to do it again at all and i'm trying not to break down sobbing about it bc i'm going to a museum with my dad in like half an hour .

[james-p-sullivan]

i don’t know who needs to hear this but no, the candy bar you ate doesn’t cancel out the workout you just did

[goldensunset]

living vicariously through the description of your hike cause I miss like, serious rigorous exercise so bad... the downside of liking physical activity as much as I do is that you might get a permanent spine injury. anyway did you see any cool plants or animals while you were out there? the trail by the house I grew up in had so many adorable snakes!! and lemonadeberries, which you can literally just grab off the branch and snack on while walking lol

lemonade…berries??? i have never heard of such things… that sounds utterly whimsical… woagh… i’ve like never really encountered wild berries that i trusted enough to eat. i mean i probably could eat like the raspberries blackberries and blueberries i find (i think those are the ones) but i’d never do it probably… i didn’t really see any plants or animals that i remember! other than this cool bird that i must’ve forgotten to take a photo of. got some amazing views but i think my photos all contain people in them

[raddagher]

:)

[dreamsmthgold]

3 km walk yesterday, 3 km walk today! Cant believe i'm really out here improving my living conditions. Also i have started rereading Wuthering Heights by listening to the audiobook while I walk. It's delightful! I love it so much.

[kultivovanaperla]

I really want to actually start exercising (I know I can, must, and will get back to doing at least 1-2 yoga classes per week but my schedule has been fucked with two jobs and it will be fucked again with 1 job+ school) but whenever I think about what I could Actually do I’m like. What am I going to do, just do this for the rest of my life? And I know I’m not going to follow through bc there’s quite literally nothing I do consistently at all so I go what’s the point…