Saturday, February 19, 2011

Tips For Dealing With High Blood Pressure

By Owen Jones


Gaining weight and doing less exercise is a characteristic pattern of life for middle-aged individuals of both sexes. When we are young, our metabolisms can deal with most things we throw at it but we start our jobs on the bottom rung and perhaps even have a young family to take care of. This all burns up our calories quite naturally.

However, as we become older our metabolism slows down; we may get a manager's job and our kids leave home. This all has the result of calories being stockpiled on our waists and thighs. However, there are a few things that can be done about it, but it in essence boils down to taking more exercise and watching what we eat.

This normally has the effect of giving us hypertension, which is what most individuals call high blood pressure. The point of this piece is to offer some tips for countering high blood pressure. The fact is that if you do nothing about the situation, you will be taking tablets for the remainder of your life.

That is OK, if you do not mind taking medication, but most people would rather avoid taking medicine every day.

So the first thing to do is moderate your weight to what it should be. If you do not know what this is, you will have to enquire of a dietitian or your GP. The handy thing about the majority of of the things you ought to do is that they are all connected with decent health.

For example, if you are overweight, you require more exercise and more exercise will also help lower your blood pressure. Two birds with one stone!

It does not take a great deal to make a big difference, if you do nothing at all now. Walking for thirty minutes twice a day will make a huge difference to your body if you do not walk anywhere now. Walking will have a knock-on effect. It will make you lose weight, it will lower your blood pressure and it will massage your internal organs naturally. Swimming works in a comparable way.

Reducing your consumption of salt is a good way of losing weight, yet you do have to seek professional advice on this subject because salt is a vital part of the human diet. However, if you eat too much salt (normally by eating too much processed food), you can change the situation by using herbs and spices instead of salt to augment the flavour of your food.

Other facets of life that escalate blood pressure which do you no use at all anyway are smoking, drinking to excess regularly and allowing yourself to get stressed out. Curing these three habits will have the effect of decreasing your blood pressure.

Taking any of these pointers for dealing with high blood pressure on board will enhance your life and reduce your blood pressure, but you might need to do all of them to get it down if you have a significant problem.




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