Help your patients learn how lifestyle changes affect their blood pressure and how making healthy choices in diet, exercise, tobacco, alcohol and stress can help keep blood pressure in a normal range. This colorful and easy to read 40 page guide is written at a 5th grade reading level and discusses risk factors, medicines, the DASH food plan, exercise and activity, alcohol and smoking and taking a blood pressure reading.

Written by W. Dallas Hall, MD, Julia Ann Purcell, RN, MN, FAAN and Yvonne Page, RD, LD

Reviewers:

• Beverly Sutton, MS, RD, Lifepower Nutrition Services, Boca Raton, FL
• James Reed, MD, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA