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Blood Pressure Smarts

Your Day in Sodium
How Much Sodium Do You Need?
How to Follow the DASH Diet
True/False: How Much Do You Know About Blood Pressure?
Healthy Hearts Challenge Tip 1: Eat These 6 Purple Foods to Help Your Blood Pressure
Tips to Lower Blood Pressure, Lower High Cholesterol and Reduce Your Risk of Heart Disease

Find out the target results for cholesterol tests, blood pressure tests and more, and how to improve your numbers.
Here’s a list of the most important tests for measuring your heart health (consult your doctor to see which ones you need—and how often).
Soda and Health: Is Soda Bad for My Blood Pressure?
You know that drinking too many sodas and other sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), such as teas and flavored drinks, is bad for your waistline. New research shows that it may be bad for something else, too—your blood pressure. A new study of nearly 3,000 people published in the journal Hypertension reported that those who drank more than one serving a day of SSBs had significantly higher blood pressure than participants who drank one serving (about 12 ounces) or less daily.
3 Ways to Cut 1,000 mg of Sodium
Americans have a supersized salt habit. (On average we eat 3,400 milligrams of sodium in a day, which is about 11⁄2 teaspoons of salt.) If we—as a population—slashed sodium by about 1,000 mg (1⁄2 teaspoon) out of our daily diets, we’d lower our risk of heart disease by up to 9 percent, according to a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Save salt with these 3 easy ways to trim 1,000 mg of sodium:
1. Trade a meaty personal-size pizza for a veggie version.
2. Eat 1 less tablespoon soy sauce with your sushi.