The cure for high blood pressure
There’s no cure, at least not yet. But high blood pressure is controllable. To control your blood pressure. You need to watch your weight, use less salt, be physically active and limit alcohol intake. You also may have to take medication every day, maybe for the rest of your life.
Controllable risk factors
- Obesity — People with a body mass index (BMI) of 30.0 or higher are more likely to develop high blood pressure.
- Eating too much salt — A high sodium intake increases blood pressure in some people.
- Drinking too much alcohol — Heavy and regular use of alcohol can increase blood pressure dramatically.
- Lack of physical activity — An inactive lifestyle makes it easier to become overweight and increases the chance of high blood pressure.
- Stress — This is often mentioned as a risk factor, but stress levels are hard to measure, and responses to stress vary from person to person.
Uncontrollable risk factors
- Heredity — If your parents or other close blood relatives have high blood pressure, you're more likely to develop it.
- Age — In general, the older you get, the greater your chance of developing high blood pressure. It occurs most often in people over age 35. Men seem to develop it most often between age 35 and 55. Women are more likely to develop it after menopause
Prevention : How Can We Prevent Hypertension?
Steps to prevent high blood pressure by adopting a healthy lifestyle. These steps include maintaining a healthy weight; being physically active; following a healthy eating plan, that emphasizes fruits, vegetables, and low fat dairy foods; choosing and preparing foods with less salt and sodium .Learn more about healthy lifestyle habits for preventing and controlling high blood pressure.
- Weight reduction
- Eating a low sodium diet
- Regular exercise
Control of other risk factors that interact with blood pressure is also important. Smoking, high cholesterol, and diabetes accelerate the damage by high blood pressure on the heart and blood vessels. Therefore, it is important to manage and control all of these factors.
Lifestyle changes may help control high blood pressure:
- Achieve and maintain normal weight. Lose weight if you are overweight. Excess weight adds to strain on the heart. In some cases, weight loss may be the only treatment needed.
- Exercise to help the heart. Exercise 3 hours per week or more (such as 30 minutes per day, 6 days per week).
- Adjust diet as needed. Decrease fat and sodium -- salt, MSG, and baking soda all contain sodium. Increase fruits, vegetables, and fiber. Eat a diet low in saturated and hydrogenated fats and cholesterol, and high in starches, fiber, fruits, and vegetables. By making a few changes eating habits, can help lower the high blood pressure.
- Reduce stress.
- Massage therapy
Follow the health care provider's recommendations to modify, treat or control possible causes of secondary hypertension.Combinations of diet, right thinking, exercise, nerve stimulation through massage, and vitalization of the entire system were used to achieve these results. Increasing numbers of research studies show massage reduces heart rate, lowers blood pressure, increases blood circulation and lymph flow, relaxes muscles, improves range of motion, and increases endorphins. Although therapeutic massage does not increase muscle strength, it can stimulate weak, inactive muscles and, thus, partially compensate for the lack of exercise and inactivity resulting from illness, injury, or a sedentary life style. It also can hasten and lead to a more complete recovery from exercise or injury. Massage therapy showed decreases in sitting diastolic and systolic blood pressure; decreases in salivary and urinary cortisol stress-hormone levels; and lower scores for depression, anxiety and hostility.
Celery juice has a mild diuretic effect, similar to many drugs that are prescribed for high blood pressure, according to Elaine Gillaspie, N.D., a naturopathic physician in Portland, Oregon. An eight-ounce blend of one part celery juice, one part carrot juice and one part water, taken at least once a day. “This juice is highly nutritious and can be helpful for people with high blood pressure,” says Dr. Gillaspie.
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Garlic Fights Deadly Hypertension
The magic ingredient: Allicin. Researchers explain the garlic ingredient allicin likely prevents pulmonary hypertension by causing the constricted blood vessels to relax, and by preventing damage to the blood vessels.
Rats that ate the boiled garlic developed pulmonary hypertension, proving allicin as the key ingredient.
How Will These Findings Affect Humans? For humans, pulmonary hypertension can lead to potentially fatal complications in the heart and blood vessels. And while consuming two cloves of garlic every day would equal that of the rats' dosage in the experiment, additional research needs to be done before doctors are able to recommend garlic to patients who have an increased risk of pulmonary hypertension.
A single medium size clove or two is usually sufficient. nutrients found in their natural state, i.e. food, are more beneficial to us than supplements containing isolated or synthetic nutrients. Just be careful not to put too much as raw garlic has a powerful flavor and can cause some unpleasant surprises. It seems as if everyday new research comes out proving food is better, and the study discussed here continues that trend.
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