High Blood Pressure - A Major Health Problem Part 2

In Part 1 of this article we talk about the warning signs of high blood pressure. But if you have been diagnosis having high blood pressure, you should keep regular appointments with your medical doctor to monitor your problem or at least have equipment that can measure it. One should not believe that pop a pill would solve their problem. 

Patients who believe in just taking a pill, and not changing their lifestyle are living in a never, never land believing that is all is required to their high blood pressure in check. Proper treatment requires adopting and staying with a plan the will make your heart muscles grow stronger. This will require a regular exercise program and eating foods that are low in salt (sodium) not oily or food with high cholesterol.  
You should eat healthy natural products such as fresh vegetables and fruits. I don't know how many times I heard my mother say "eat your vegetables, they will make you healthy and strong". 
For centuries people have used celery to help reduce blood pressure.   Its oil has a compound, which helps relax the muscles lining the arteries, and will allow the regulating blood pressure muscles to dilate. The recommend celery intake is about four sticks a day.

For centuries people have used celery to help reduce blood pressure. Its oil has a compound, which helps relax the muscles lining the arteries, and will allow the regulating blood pressure muscles to dilate. The recommend celery intake is about four sticks a day.

In a report from the Annals of Internal Medicine (July 2005), it seems that use of soybean protein dietary supplements may help reduce high blood pressure.. There is a belief that soy proteins helps process blood sugar by widening the blood vessels. You will find soybean protein in soybeans, soymilk, tofu, bean sprouts, and the many soy based products you can buy in your supermarket today.

Another great vegetable is garlic. A cove of garlic a day is very helpful in reducing high blood pressure. You can take the clove raw or you can take it in capsule form, which is my favorite choice. Not only does garlic help reduce blood pressure but is also good in lower your cholesterol (something I'm always watching).

Some other fruits and vegetables to eat that helpful in reducing high blood pressure are bananas, blueberries, raspberries, beans, lentils, artichokes, cooked spinach. Some of the oils to use are high quality fish oil w/Omega 3, grape seed oil, and olive oil. You should also take a multi-vitamin that have or close to the daily requirements of Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium, B Complex and Zinc. There are other vitamins you should take, asks your doctor what are the better over-the-counter vitamin brands to purchase.

The second component is exercise, now stop groaning, it not that hard, but it is very important and you should consider it a lifelong endeavor. But before you start, you should consult your doctor. It is best to start off gradually, like walking. A good walking exercise is to walk for 30 minutes a day, five days a week. If this is too much, start off with 10 or 15 minutes and add another 5 minutes each week until you reach 30 minutes a day.

Here are a few final notes I have that do not require eating or exercise. Speak softly, raising your voice when talking loudly or angrily will cause your blood pressure to spike. If this happens often, you could be at risk of coronary heart disease. So it is important to speak softly in any situation to take the stress off your cardiovascular system.

Don't lie. It is known to spike your blood pressure, because it takes a lot of effort from the brain to lie. It is important that you tell the truth. So always speak the true. Even though it harder to do than eat that clove of garlic each day.

And the final, final note is laughter. Believe it or not, laughter is the best medicine. For when you laugh your adrenaline and cortisone levels go down, and these are the main compounds that have a bad effect on your blood pressure. So find something to laugh about. When with friends tell funny jokes (keep them clean in mixed groups) and stories so you can reduce your blood pressure and at the same time help them too.

High Blood Pressure - A Major Health Problem Part 1

As a major world health problem, high blood pressure deteriorates the healthy life of many. Most people believe the illness only effects our senior citizens, but that far from the truth. Many middle-aged men and women have high blood pressure problems.

It is also referred to as the silent killer, because many people don't even know that they have this problem until it's to late. In the United States one of the leading causes of heart attacks and strokes is high blood pressure. Many times in the early states the elevated pressure is so slight that an individual will experience or detect no symptoms. Feeling healthy, he or she will be unaware of the problem at hand.

High blood pressure comes in basically two forms, primary hypertension and secondary hypertension. The most common is primary hypertension. It is thought that as much as 95% of high blood pressure is the result of primary hypertension. There are many factors that contribute to hypertension but that's will be another article.

There are many warning signs contributed to high blood pressure. One of this signs is chronic headache. The problem is many people will consider the headaches as mere allergy problems, and simple dismiss them. And this might be true, but if they occur several days is a row, a person should go to their doctor as soon as possible. It would be a big mistake to ignore it, hoping that the headaches would simply go away.

Dizziness is another sign of high blood pressure. Many people believe this is a eye problem. They go to their eye doctor with this problem. But the doctor does not give blood pressure test, so the symptom is not correctly identified. You should always make an appointment with you medical doctor if you starting to feel dizzy on more than just one occasion.

The last warning sign I will mention is shortness of breath. Usually at this point the blood pressure has reached a high enough level to be dangerous. Fortunately a person is alarmed by this and goes to his doctor. It is important to state, you should go to your doctor immediately if you are finding yourself with shortest of breath when it is not caused by above normal physical activity.

Symptoms are indicators that the body is telling you it is not healthy. It is important to pay attention to these indicators and respond to them as quickly as possible. It is important that you go to your doctor to find out the cause as soon as possible. Do not linger, hoping that it will get better, because it is a very good chance it won't.

When going to the doctor, usually one of the first things they will do is check your blood pressure with an instrument with a name hard to spell and even harder to pronounce, "sphygmomanometer". The instrument measures your blood pressure in millimeters of mercury.

Taking a blood pressure is fairly simple and has little discomfort. A strap or cuff is wrapped around your upper arm and your arm is extended beside your body at heart level. A hand air pump inflates the cuff until it blocks the flow of main arm artery. The pressure (air) is gradually released when a pulse is first heard is the systolic pressure (large number) and at the point the pressure finally stops pulsating is the diastolic pressure (the smaller number.

The pre hypertension range is from 120/80 to 139/89. Because of this published range, high blood pressure is defined by most insurance companies is any value above 140/90. It is important as you get older or have a high blood pressure problem is to monitor your range closely.
Part 2 of this article explains the ways that you can reduce your high blood pressure without using drugs and will be found at http://delvebookstore.com/health.htm