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Healthy Hypertension Diet
Follow a healthy hypertension diet and exercise
Twenty five percent of
Americans have hypertension and do not realize it, because high blood
pressure produces no symptoms.
Your blood pressure is
created by your
heart beating more than 100,000 times per day, each time pumping blood
throughout your entire system.
The fewer obstacles
it encounters along the way, the lower the blood pressure and the less
chance of developing hypertension.
How do you know if you have hypertension
The terms high blood
pressure and hypertension are used interchangeably by most people. If
your blood pressure is over 130/80 (this is after more than one
reading), then you have high blood pressure or hypertension. High blood
pressure is a big risk factor for heart attack, stroke, kidney disease,
diabetes, and dementia.
 A bad diet and lack of
exercise, (even back during the Egyptian
empire), could develop into hypertension and kill you at a young age.
How do you know if that is true? Well, dissection of the Egyptian
mummies by world renowned archeologists proved, sure enough, that
hypertension was a major health problem way back then.
As we have grown
into a society of fast food couch potatoes, the instances of this
condition related to diet has grown to chronic stages.
A healthy
hypertension diet consists of the following:
Once your doctor has
identified that you have hypertension, you should jointly set a
realistic blood pressure goal. Then, purchase a home blood pressure
monitor and chart your blood pressure on a hourly, daily, and weekly
basis. You might be surprised at what you discover. Planning and
sticking with a long term healthy diet to combat hypertension is
critical to living a long life. This should include trying to avoid
alcohol and cigarettes.
 Along with a healthy
hypertension diet, you should also develop some type of daily exercise
plan that includes weight training and cardio workouts on alternate
days. As your heart rate rises while you are exercising, just think of
all the bad stuff that is being cleared out of you veins and
vessels.
The first item on your
anti-hypertension diet just might be maintaining a positive outlook on
life no matter how bleak things might look right now. "A hundred smiles
a day should keep hypertension away," or "the glass is never empty,
always full." Experts agree we are just starting to fully appreciate
the power of positive thinking in solving physical problems.
By making a few
lifestyle changes in your diet and exercise routine, you can control
your hypertension. |
