© Provided by The Active Times 7 Ways to Naturally Lower Your Blood Pressure

“When your heart pumps blood through the blood vessels, the blood pushes against the walls of your blood vessels. This creates blood pressure. Your body needs blood pressure to move the blood throughout your body, so every part of your body can get the oxygen it needs (heart.org).”

High blood pressure cannot be cured, but it can be managed. In some cases high blood pressure is genetic, therefore out of your control. In other cases high blood pressure can be due to an unhealthy diet, lack of exercise and stress. (more…)

Gold prices tumbled after a month of steady run at Rs 31,000 mark to Rs 30,020 per 10 grams on Thursday buoying consumer sentiment. Customers have increasingly started visiting stores making enquiries though they are still shying from buying the precious metal.

Standard gold prices registered a major fall in Mumbai by Rs 1,180 in the past four days to Rs 30,020 per 10 grams on Thursday from Rs 31,200 on 30 September. Sentiment took a hit in the global market after gold fell below $1,300 an ounce for the first time since June amid mounting concern that an improving US economy will prompt the Fed to raise rates soon, boosting the dollar and taking the sheen off the safe haven appeal of the metal, traders said, reports PTI.
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Until the U.S. Presidential elections in November 2016, the country’s leading beer brand, Budweiser, renamed its 12 ounces cans and bottles as “America.” To notch up the patriotic feel, the packaging will also carry slogans such as “Land of the Free,” “Indivisible Since 1776” and “Liberty and Justice for All.” Tosh Hall, creative director at the company’s branding firm JKR, said: “We thought nothing was more iconic than Budweiser and nothing was more iconic than America.” Let’s take a look at other iconic companies that were named differently when they began.

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Some may be sugar-free but they are not carbs-free,” Malkoff-Cohen says. They are still made with flour and have processed carbs that will increase your blood sugar levels. White or wheat flours are basically the same as far as diabetics are concerned, she adds. They will still raise your blood sugar levels. “Almond flour is better because it has more protein and is made of almond, not grain,” she says. (more…)

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India never attacks anyone but will retaliate and “not count the bullets” if attacked, home minister Rajnath Singh said on Saturday after assessing security on border with Pakistan in the wake of surgical strikes.

Singh, who visited BSF’s Munabao Border Outpost, assured the security personnel that the government will do everything to improve the border infrastructure, including completing the floodlighting and a parallel road along the fencing, and their service conditions. (more…)

The US government has formally accused Russia of hacking the Democratic party’s computer networks and said that Moscow was attempting to “interfere” with the US presidential election.

Hillary Clinton and US officials have blamed Russian hackers for stealing more than 19,000 emails from Democratic party officials, but Friday’s announcement marked the first time that the Obama administration has pointed the finger at Moscow. (more…)

It’s become cliché to say of an upcoming campaign event that the “stakes are high,” but for Donald Trump on Sunday night, that has never been more true.

The Republican presidential nominee was already facing a defining moment in his campaign following a poorly received opening debate performance on Long Island late last month. Now, as his candidacy seems to be teetering on the brink following the release of a 2005 video that depicted the real estate mogul using graphic language as he describes groping women, Trump needs nothing short of a Hail Mary to revive his hopes of overtaking Hillary Clinton. (more…)