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With New Years resolution time at hand, one important thing to consider is how to improve your health in the coming year.  While many people ramp up for a new diet and fitness regime, there are also some less radical ways to dramatically improve your health.  Avoiding the worst culprits in the food and beverage industry will give you a head start on all of your fitness resolutions.&nb

High blood pressure a serious concern for many people when examining their overall health.  When the blood presses against the walls of the arteries, it is called blood pressure.  This pressure is characterized by two different things. The first is the force of the arteries as they resist the blood and the other is when the heart pumps blood into the arteries and through the circulatory system.

Sure you may know that you need Vitamin D but did you know how seriously it can impact your health if you do not have enough of it. New studies are reporting that Vitamin D deficiency can be deadly. A new German study has found that vitamin D deficiency is associated with heart dysfunction, sudden cardiac death, and death due to heart failure.

Fall is a great time to do a little internal cleaning. Eating foods which will rid your body of toxins and which move through your system without too much effort are a good choice at this time of year. It is important to have some knowledge about what to feed your body to ward off sickness and detox.

With such a variety of pre packaged and canned foods available for our hectic lifestyles, it is no wonder that most people are consuming too much salt. Even a can of vegetable soup which claims to be healthy and “trans fat free” should be avoided because of excess sodium content.

Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Good thing that there are a variety of different things that you can do to decrease your risk. Here are five such things.

1. Stop smoking. We have all heard time and time again that smoking is bad for you. But just how bad? When it comes to heart disease no amount of smoking is safe, even if you are only a “social smoker”. Even cigarettes with low nicotine levels or smokeless tobacco have been found to be just as dangerous as regular cigarettes.