{"id":7579,"date":"2016-06-21T17:53:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T00:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7579"},"modified":"2016-07-01T17:56:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T00:56:31","slug":"ace-mozart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/21\/ace-mozart\/","title":{"rendered":"ACE Mozart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/good-news\/2016\/06\/20\/mamma-mia-listening-to-mozart-lowers-blood-pressurebut-abba-has\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Telegraph<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Mamma Mia! listening to Mozart lowers blood pressure\u2026but ABBA has no impact<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<span class=\"byline__author-name\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/authors\/sarah-knapton\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Knapton<\/a>,\u00a0S<\/span><span class=\"byline__author-role\">cience Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/content\/dam\/science\/2016\/06\/21\/mozart1_1795229b-large_trans++qVzuuqpFlyLIwiB6NTmJwZwVSIA7rSIkPn18jgFKEo0.jpg\" alt=\"Mozart\" width=\"480\" \/><em><span class=\"lead-asset-caption\">Mozart\u2019s Symphony No 40 in g minor lowered blood pressure\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Relaxing to a soothing Mozart symphony can lower the blood pressure as much as cutting salt from the diet or exercising, a new study has shown.<\/p>\n<p>But for people concerned about their heart, it might be wise to stay clear of ABBA, which has no impact at all.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists in Germany played Mozart\u2019s Symphony No 40 in g minor, dances by Johann Strauss and songs by ABBA to 60 volunteers, monitoring their blood pressure before and after the experiment.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"m_first-letter\">T<\/span>hey found that Mozart lowered systolic blood pressure (the\u00a0pressure\u00a0in blood vessels when the heart beats) by 4.7 mm Hg, Strauss 3.7 \u00a0mm Hg but the Swedish pop group made no significant difference.<\/p>\n<p>Diastolic blood pressure (when the heart rests between beats) also fell by 2.1 mm Hg for Mozart and 2.9 mm Hg for Strauss.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/good-news\/2016\/06\/20\/mamma-mia-listening-to-mozart-lowers-blood-pressurebut-abba-has\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Telegraph<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Telegraph Mamma Mia! listening to Mozart lowers blood pressure\u2026but ABBA has no impact By\u00a0Sarah Knapton,\u00a0Science Editor Mozart\u2019s Symphony No 40 in g minor lowered blood pressure\u00a0 Relaxing to a soothing Mozart symphony can lower the blood pressure as much as cutting salt from the diet or exercising, a new study has shown. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}