“To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.” — William Londen
When it comes to your cardiovascular health, regular monitoring of your blood pressure is a prime indicator to your health condition.
The fluctuations in your blood pressure, BP, an increase or decrease, can signal existence of blood pressure related problems – hypertension or low blood pressure – hypotension.
Although they both are dangerous, Hypertension, can put you in a greater danger when leading to:
* Developing of cardiovascular disease
* Heart attack
* Stroke
* Kidney problems
* Other medical conditions
While there are some factors that can affect your BP and you can’t control them, just like your genetics, other medical condition you may suffer, your age and ethnicity, still there are some others that you can take control of to change them and make necessary modifications when needed.
Your eating habits, your lifestyle, physical activity, diet, alcohol consumption, smoking and drugs or medications you take, can have great impact on your risk to eventually develop hypert.
High blood pressure isn’t a disease but a medical condition indicating that your body is out of balance.
If you take the necessary means, you’ll most likely succeed to bring your body back to a balanced state. You’ll succeed to restore the perfect harmony when every organ inside your body functions as it supposed to.
1. Dietary factors such as a high-cholesterol, high-fat food you eat can contribute to the clogging of the arteries with fat and developing of hypertension or other heart problems. Enriching your diet with fruits, different colored vegetables, whole grain and low fat dairy products, eating more fish and lean protein, can be a good start for anyone who wants a healthy heart and no HBP.
2. Eat more foods that provide your body with adequate dietary fiber and necessary nutrients such as calcium, magnesium and potassium. Don’t forget to lower your sodium intake – although, the question whether a salt can cause to high blood pressure or not, still a little caution can’t hurt.
3. Alcohol and Smoking in large amounts can potentially increase your blood pressure. Moderate consumption of alcohol, such as a glass of red wine (rich in antioxidants) can benefit your health than a belt of vodka or Scotch. In addition, alcohol is loaded with empty calories and induces weight gain. Furthermore, smoking hardens the arteries and can lead to heart disease, stroke and high blood pressure.
4. Living a physically active lifestyle can be more than just beneficial to your health. 30 minutes of moderate physical activity such as walking 5 times a week is simple way to get more required physical activity. If you don’t like to go walking, you can switch it with swimming, running, cycling or a combination of all of these activities. You can get more physical activity even if you take the stairs instead of the elevator.
5. Medications or pharmacy drugs – many times people who suffer from high blood pressure have another medical condition causing to elevated blood pressure. The medications you take for one condition may have side effects and can cause to HBP. Drugs like: steroids, pain relievers, diet pills, antidepressants and oral contraceptives can affect your blood pressure.
As a rule of thumb, consult your doctor if you are on medications, have hypertension or are “borderline” for the condition, before you start taking any other medication or supplement. She or he has the required knowledge to substitute drugs for alternative treatment.
The most respective medical journals such as The Lancet, the British Medical Journal, and daily newspapers such as The Sunday Times, The Daily Mail and even on the BBC are consistently reporting how natural means can reverse Hypertension.