Disease and Conditions

This easy-to-use guide will help you understand the many issues related to high blood pressure and assist you in preventing it, managing it, and making essential treatment decisions. Learn which single factor you can do the most about when it comes to influencing your blood pressure. This one step may be all it takes to lower your blood pressure and keep it under control. How losing as little as 10 pounds may reduce your blood pressure to a healthier level-includes practical help for maintaining a healthier weight. Discover a great alternative that may lower your blood pressure just about as much as medications-without the expense of prescriptions. Why your blood pressure goes down if you make your heart stronger-and dozens of tips to realize this goal. How to manage your sodium intake. Information about medications for when changes in lifestyle aren't enough and more

Fibromyalgia can be hard to live with and difficult to understand, and decades of mystery and misconceptions haven’t helped. Finding solid answers and strategies to ease the symptoms of fibromyalgia has been difficult - until now! Mayo Clinic Guide to Fibromyalgia dispels myths and provides empowering answers about fibromyalgia. But it doesn’t stop there. Drawing on decades of experience and research, this compelling, how-to resource offers effective, practical approaches that can help anyone with fibromyalgia manage the condition successfully and return to a life that’s meaningful and enjoyable. If you or a loved one has fibromyalgia, relief is closer than you think. Inside this empowering book, you’ll discover a comprehensive program that offers the latest advances in treatment, along with proven, easy-to-follow steps for reducing pain and other symptoms. Page by page, you’ll find tools, techniques and hope to help anyone with fibromyalgia not only live well but thrive.