Yaakov Rosenthal's Blog – March 2012 Archive (1)

According to both The American Heart Association and the Centers for Disease Control a whopping one in three Americans now have hypertension - high blood pressure.  What used to be a disease for grandfathers, is now showing up in everyone from college students to grandmothers.

The disease occurs when blood pumps too forcefully through your blood vessels. The great push of blood stretches veins and arteries out of shape. The vessels then tear and develop scar tissue as they try to…