Old remedies work just fine.

• Position: High Blood Pressure - Brief article

With the growing worldwide reports about obesity comes the concern for increased blood pressure risks as well, and a physician with the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, La., has two important messages: physicians may be able to stop high blood pressure before it starts, and older medications perform just as well as the newest drugs.

Alok Gupta works in the area called "pre-hypertension" or pre-high blood pressure. According to Gupta, individuals with a pressure in the range of 130-139/85-89 are at risk of high blood pressure rater in life and should be treated with modifications such as decreasing weight and salt intake--along with an...