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High Blood Pressure Is the Number One Risk Factor for Death
High blood pressure is the number one risk factor for death in the world. 9 million people worldwide die from high blood pressure every year. High blood pressure contributes to all sorts of diseases, aneurysms, heart attacks, heart failure, kidney failure, stroke. The two most prominent dietary risks are not eating enough fruit and too much salt. We can choose to be eating the artery bursting Western diet, or we can choose to take off the pressure quite literally.