{"id":695,"date":"2018-04-11T08:38:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T08:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=695"},"modified":"2018-04-13T08:51:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T08:51:06","slug":"pill-or-exercise-how-would-you-treat-your-high-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=695","title":{"rendered":"Pill or Exercise: How Would You Treat Your High Blood Pressure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>A new US survey has revealed that if given the choice, most of us would choose popping a pill or drinking a daily cup of tea over exercise in order to lower high blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201ctreatments\u201d proposed were drinking a daily cup of tea, doing exercise, taking pills, or having a monthly or semi-annual injection.<\/p>\n<p>The responses showed that taking a pill would be the preferred choice for many, with 79% of respondents saying they would be willing to take a pill for an extra month of life, 90% would for an extra year of life and 96% would for an extra five years of life.<\/p>\n<p>In comparison, 63% would be willing to exercise for an extra month of life, although this figure rose to 84% for an extra year and 93% for an additional five years.<\/p>\n<p>The least popular choice was taking an injection, with only 51% saying they would take a monthly shot for an extra month of life. However, participants were more willing if the gains were greater, or if the shots were every six months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/citizen.co.za\/lifestyle\/fitness-and-health-your-life-your-life\/1890093\/pill-or-exercise-how-would-you-treat-your-high-blood-pressure\/\">More of this news at The Citizen<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new US survey has revealed that if given the choice, most of us would choose popping a pill or&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,6],"tags":[10,14,11],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-medicine","category-exercise","category-nutrition","tag-alternative-medicine","tag-exercise","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}