1. How Effective Are Pets?
Kathy Keeton, co-founder and president of OMNI, states, "stress helps produce high blood pressure (hypertension), which currently afflicts sixty million Americans. ... Though it has been shown that stress promotes high blood pressure and other diseases, recent studies are being done on the affects of animals in reducing the stress in humans. On page 26 of "Diabetes in the News", Sandra Schwartz says that "pets provide friendship, help you improve your diabetes management, lower your heart rate and blood pressure, cut down on your visits to the doctor, and reduce the number of illnesses and a...
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