If your blood pressure (BP) is 140/90 mmHG or thereabouts, you either have hypertension or are tending toward it. You can check your BP from rising and even lower it with a careful diet. Begin with a heart-friendly diet called the DASH eating plan.
Power of attorney. A medical or health care power of attorney is a type of advance directive in which you name a person to make decisions for you when you are unable to do so. In some states this directive may also be called a durable power of attorney for health care or a health care proxy. The person you name may be a spouse, other family member, friend or member of a faith community.
A Durable Power of Attorney is a legal document that authorizes one person to act on behalf of another person in financial and legal matters. It is called âDurableâ because it remains valid after the person granting the power has lost his or her mental capacity; this is when a Power of Attorney is most often needed.