{"id":544879,"date":"2010-04-27T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10005055"},"modified":"2010-04-27T14:08:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T18:08:52","slug":"brazils-cure-for-high-blood-pressure-more-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/544879","title":{"rendered":"Brazil&#8217;s Cure For High Blood Pressure? More Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/riosexy-thumb-350x233-39777.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Brazilians are a passionate people. Unfortunately, they are also a people with high blood pressure. But the country&#8217;s health minister is telling Brazilians that a good place to fight heart problems is between the sheets. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking yesterday in Brasilia to announce a new national campaign against high blood pressure, minister Jose Temporao ran down the regular list of ways to ways to reduce blood pressure &#8212; diet, exercise, regular blood-pressure checks &#8212; and he also reminded everyone that one way to get a good cardiovascular workout is with more sexytime, adding, &#8220;always with protection, obviously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the Health Ministry in Brazil, in just three years the rate of high blood pressure in the South American nation has risen from 21.5% to 24.4%.<\/p>\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth, the American Heart Association estimates that over 70 million <i>adults<\/i> in the U.S. have high blood pressure. So maybe it&#8217;s time we got our collective swerve on&#8230; in the name of healthy hearts everywhere. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/lifestyle\/health\/2010\/04\/27\/2010-04-27_brazilian_official_urges_countrymen_to_have_more_sex_to_fight_high_blood_pressur.html\" >Brazilian official urges countrymen to have more sex to fight high blood pressure<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilians are a passionate people. Unfortunately, they are also a people with high blood pressure. But the country&#8217;s health minister is telling Brazilians that a good place to fight heart problems is between the sheets. Speaking yesterday in Brasilia to announce a new national campaign against high blood pressure, minister Jose Temporao ran down the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}