Meditation helps reduce high blood pressure: (1) ..High blood pressure.. is the leading preventable cause of (2) ..Heart disease... It affects (3) ...1.3.... billion people. Researchers say daily meditation for (4) ..20... minutes can (5) ...lower .... blood pressure. They said " (6) ...body.... and mind " goals should be adopted together with standard advice, like less salt, limiting (7) ..alcohol.... and regular (8) ....exercise.... The researchers said meditating sounds " fluffy, " but (9) ...research...... shows it really reduces the effects of (10) .....stress.... on the cardiovascular system. High blood pressure is known as a " (11) .....silent killer... " because we rarely are symptoms. It increases the (12) ....risk.... of heart failure and (13) ...stroke.... It kills 10 million people annually. Nearly (14) ....30... percent of people worldwide have it. A researcher said we need to " take a (15) ....step.... back and .... just relax ". The American Heart Association also says meditating can (16) ....reduce.... blood pressure. It says many studies show that " quieting the brain " benefits the (17) ....cardiovascular system......
