Leading Studies on Reducing Blood Pressure without Drugs A
growing number of clinical studies attest to the role of
lifestyle changes in controlling and reducing blood pressure.
From what you eat and how much you eat to how you cope with a
traffic jam and how much exercise you get, lifestyle
modifications can do as much if not more than medication to
lower blood pressure. Here are seven major studies that provide
proof that a healthy lifestyle lowers blood pressure: Framingham
Heart Study. The grandfather of all population-based studies,
this research began in 1948 when scientists from the U.S. Public
Health Service chose the town of Framingham, Massachusetts, and
its residents to help them learn more about the growing epidemic
of heart disease. Results from Framingham have proven the
connection between hypertension and heart disease, exercise and
hypertension, diet and heart disease, and diabetes and heart
disease, among others. Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension
(DASH). This study, published in the New