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Diet for High Blood Pressure, Reduce Hypertension

January 30th, 2010 admin

A high blood pressure diet demands that you cut back on or eliminate some foods, while increasing your intake of others. Salt is a prime culprit in creating high blood pressure, so you should be consuming no more than five grams of salt per day. You will have to start paying attention to the sodium in the packaged and canned foods you ***, because many of them are notorious for their high salt content. Go for the low-salt or no-salt versions. You can learn to season your food with herbs and spices; they are the secrets to many a brilliant culinary career.

Even when people think they are ***ing “healthy” foods, many times they are not. You can *** a package of wild rice with some type of seasoning packet in it and it does have some healthy characteristics. It is very low in all types of fats. It has zero cholesterol. It provides excellent proteins and complex carbohydrates. However, it has a ton of sodium in it. And remember, each package is made for a family – not an individual.

The thing about traditional medical treatment is that it is simply hiding the cause of hypertension. Though hypertension is a silent disease meaning that is shows no signs, it is most often the result of bad lifestyle habits. In fact, your weight or activity levels are the two greatest reasons why you might suffer from high blood pressure. And by taking these ‘miracle’ medications, you are NOT dealing with the root of the problem but simply using synthetic chemicals that either cause your heart to pump slower or relax your arteries. Therefore, you will see significant drops when you test but who are you really kidding besides yourself? Something tells me that according to the statistics; the meds aren’t fooling our bodies

It is a well-known fact that heart diseases and excess body weight are related. Obesity, heavy alcohol consumption and lack of activity are the main factors causing high blood pressure. Too much body fat leads to an increased risk of health problems through clogging the blood vessels with cholesterol. That is why the successful treatment of high blood pressure starts with following a diet specifically aimed at reducing high blood pressure.

In as much as our body produces a lot of waste materials, some known excesses such as sodium and glucose tend to overwork the kidneys. High-fiber diets can help the digestive system by its inherent ability to bind other food, which then allows proper digestion to take place.

Diet For High Blood Pressure and Hypertension, Relation Between Diet and Blood Pressure
If you have Bad eating habits then it contributes significantly to unhealthily high blood pressure levels, even in middle age, when blood pressure levels typically rise as part of the aging process. Whether or not you are taking antihypertensive drugs, the need to make dietary improvements (eg. follow a healthy low-fat diet) is frequently at the top of a doctor’s list of recommendations to reduce or prevent the onset of high blood pressure.

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Treatment For Hypertension or High Blood Pressure Causes

January 28th, 2010 admin

Hypertension or High blood pressure (HBP) means high pressure (tension) in the arteries. Arteries are vessels that carry blood from the pump heart to all the tissues and organs of the body. High blood pressure does not mean extreme emotional tension, although touching tension and stress can temporarily increase blood pressure. Normal blood pressure is above 120/80; blood pressure between 120/80 and 139/89 is called “pre-hypertension”, and a blood pressure of 140/90 or above is consider high. Hypertension places patients at high risk for target organ damage counting, retina, brain, heart, kidneys etc.
High Blood Pressure Symptoms: High blood pressure regularly causes no symptoms.
Even if high blood pressure does reason symptoms, the symptoms are usually mild and nonspecific (vague, or suggestive of many different disorders).
Thus, high blood pressure often is labeled “the silent killer.”
People who have high blood pressure typically don’t know it until their blood pressure is measured.
People with average hypertension may have a tendency as they get older to develop extra sustained or higher elevations of blood pressure. They have a modestly increased danger of developing heart-related (cardiovascular) disease.
Main Causes of Hypertension
The cause of essential hypertension is multifactorial, that is, there are several factors whose combined effects produce hypertension. In secondary hypertension, which accounts for 5% of hypertension, the high blood pressure is secondary to (caused by) a specific abnormality in one of the organs or systems of the body.
These include:
* Smoking
* Obesity or being overweight
* Diabetes
* Sedentary lifestyle
* Lack of physical activity
* High levels of salt intake (sodium sensitivity)
* Insufficient calcium, potassium, and magnesium expenditure
* Vitamin D deficiency
* High levels of alcohol utilization
* Stress
* Aging
Let’s come on Hypertension treatment :
The main goal of treatment for hypertension is to lower blood pressure to less than 140/90 – or even lower in some groups such as people with diabetes, and people with chronic kidney diseases. Treating hypertension is significant for reducing the risk of stroke, heart attack, and heart failure.

High blood pressure may be treated medically, by shifting lifestyle factors, or a combination of the two. Important lifestyle change include losing weight, quitting smoking, eating a healthful diet, reducing sodium intake, exercise regularly, and limiting alcohol consumption.
Effects of Yoga on Blood Pressure :
1. Regular practice of Yoga reduces blood pressure to the tune of 10 to 15 mm / Hg (observed facts, good evidence exists to support this observation)
2. Yoga can reduce weight loss which in turn reduces blood pressure.
3. Regular Yoga performer is less likely to suffer from Hypertension than their age & sex matched counterparts. This result has been studied and proven at our center.
4. The night ‘dip’ of blood pressure a phenomenon seen in normal people and which can be absent in some hypertensive is regularly restored as observed at our center.
5. A casual Shavasana and Omkar chanting each can reduce the B.P. by about 10 – 15 mm / Hg even in an untrained person who may not practice Yoga regularly.

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