You may have heard the adage, “music calms the savage beast.” A recent study states that, “Listening to just 30 minutes of rhythmically homogeneous music every day may significantly reduce high blood pressure, according to researchers at the American Society of Hypertension’s Twenty Third Annual Scientific Meeting and Exposition. Patients with mild hypertension who listened to just half an hour of classical, Celtic (or sacred) music a day for four weeks experienced significant reductions in 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure. So make music a part of your treatment and prevention program for high blood pressure! (ResearchHealth.com; June 1, 2008); (Words in Italics supplied)