{"id":3618,"date":"2013-05-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/celebrities-dr-oz-how-to-measure-your-bodys-true-age\/"},"modified":"2013-05-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T00:00:00","slug":"celebrities-dr-oz-how-to-measure-your-bodys-true-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/celebrities-dr-oz-how-to-measure-your-bodys-true-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Oz: How to Measure Your Body's True Age"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Forget wrinkles. To gauge how old your body really is, check your blood pressure.<\/p>\n
“Its the number one cause of aging,” says Dr. Oz.<\/p>\n
When high blood pressure<\/a> blows a hole in one of your arteries, your body has to patch it up, either with healthy HDL cholesterol or lousy LDL cholesterol, he says.<\/p>\n If you eat a healthy diet full of lean meat, produce and good fats found in flaxseed oil and nuts, then youre more likely to have a high amount of HDL, which makes a great patch on your artery wall.<\/p>\n More from America's Healthiest Families:<\/p>\n Lousy LDL cholesterol, on the other hand, makes a crackling patch that doesnt last, resulting in a scab, known in the medical world as a thrombosis.<\/p>\n A thrombosis can close off major arteries of the body, increasing your risk of heart attack.<\/p>\n So remember these two things: High blood pressure is like a fire hydrant—you dont want to open up on your arteries—so aim for a reading thats 120 over 80 or less. Number two: Get your cholesterol checked regularly so you know how much healthy HDL you have compared to unhealthy LDL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" IstockphotoIstockphotoForget wrinkles. To gauge how old your body really is, check your blood pressure. “Its the number one cause of aging,” says Dr. Oz. When high blood pressure blows a hole in one of your arteries, your body has to patch it up, either with healthy HDL cholesterol or lousy LDL cholesterol, he says. If […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n