Just a few minutes of this simple exercise may lower blood pressure

If it feels like current events are conspiring to raise your blood pressure, now might be a good time to go sit against a wall for a few minutes.

In a new study, several minutes of wall sits — also called wall squats — three times a week effectively lowered people’s blood pressures over time. Those gains lingered even if people cut back to doing only a few wall sits once or twice a week.