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High blood pressure? Relax. Meditation, yoga, tai chi and breathwork help bring it down

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Relaxation techniques may help lower high blood pressure – at least in the short term, research suggests. However, they suggested the quality of the overall evidence is poor and more work is needed. At least 1.2 billion adults aged 30 to 79 years worldwide have hypertension, according to the World Health Organization. The condition is … Read more

How a Hong Kong couple shed 50kg to be role models for their son after he asked for pizza

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When her seven-year-old son returned from school and announced, “I am very stressed, I want pizza for lunch,” Chinchak Satapathy was stunned. “I realised that my son had begun associating food with coping with stress” from watching his parents, she says. “I thought, ‘What are we teaching our child’?” The moment, in October 2023, was … Read more