"NEVER eat after 7pm"

"Late night meals 'increases the risk of heart attack and stroke'"

Experts think this is because eating releases a rush of stress hormones when the body should be starting to relax.

People who do not see their blood pressure fall at night are known as 'non-dippers' – and have a much higher rate of heart-related death.

Late eaters were nearly three times more likely to be non-dippers, the Turkish researchers found.

Researcher Dr Ebru Özpelit, presenting her results at the speaking at the European Society of Cardiology congress in Rome, said: 'If we eat late at night, the body essentially remains on high alert as during the day, rather than relaxing for sleep.

'Stress hormones are secreted, causing blood pressure not to decrease during sleep, which should normally happen.'

Dr Özpelit, from Dokuz Eylül University in Turkey, tracked 721 on people diagnosed with high blood pressure, with an average age of 53.

She found that those who ate within two hours of going to bed were 2.8 times more likely to retain high blood pressure overnight.

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AllenS was talking about his green tea in the comments and I have a lot to say about it. I have to limit my coffee consumption as I have to lay low on caffeine because of my bum ticker. So I have been doing a lot of herbal tea and have learned a lot  about it.

Now processed teas that you buy in tea bags are not washed before they are packages. So they often contain dangerous levels of pesticides in each teabag. In addition you know what is one of the most dangerous ingredients in your typical tea bag? Fluoride.  This is what stains your teeth bags. It is also really not good for you in general. The fluoride added to drinking water is minuscule compared to the natural fluoride content of many teas.

Even worse is the way they treat the tea bags. The big time commercial tea bags are treated with epichlorohyrin which is a plastic that helps to keep the bags from breaking. The problem is that epicholorohyrin can potentially break down in water to be released into the water. Water with high levels of this toxic chemical can cause severe stomach pain as well as a highly increase risk of cancer.