High Blood Pressure in Men - Why They Are Such Big Dummies
Why is it men tend to ignore high blood pressure until they have a major event like a heart attack or stroke.
Fully a third of men who know they have pre-hypertension or hypertension do nothing to control it.
If you got in your car and pegged the tachometer in the red, how long would you expect to go before there was a big bang and pieces of metal flying everywhere? Well dummy, that's what you're doing when you don't control your BP.
Shortcuts To Lower Blood Pressure Lose that gut.
Your body has nearly 60,000 miles of blood vessels and capillaries and adding additional acreage of flesh simply adds an additional load on your vascular system.
You can make a significant dent in your blood pressure reading by knocking off some pounds.
You can add to that drop depending on how you go about losing the weight.
Ideally you'll try to slim down using a combination of exercise and diet.
Both of these methods, if done correctly, can shave even more points.
You don't have to run a marathon but you should get off your duff and do 30 minutes of mild aerobic exercise like cycling or walking each day.
Obviously during the exercise your pressure will go up.
After the exercise it will drop to below your starting point and stay there for about 22 hours.
Training your vessels to increase and decrease pressure is actually an excellent exercise in itself as it keeps the vessels elastic and inhibits stiffening.
Everyone hates diets mostly because very few of us can stick to one.
You don't have to dive in head first just make some smart choices.
If you're going to eat red meat make it from the leaner cuts like top or bottom round roasts.
If there is a reduced fat or fat free version of something you want to chow down, eat that.
Add a banana a day as a way to get potassium, a mineral almost none of us gets enough of.
It's About the Salt Stupid The more salt you eat the shorter your life.
That's what a study from the University of Helsinki reports.
These Finns are not kidding around.
They determined that men who decreased their sodium intake by 30 percent lived 7 years longer than those who continued to eat high doses of salt.
Salt or sodium retains water and that results in, among other things, a higher blood volume which places more pressure on the vessels.
The first medication usually given to HBP patients is a diuretic designed to flush out salt.
The Australians however, have come up with a solution that is typical down under style.
They've formulated a do it yourself salt substitute.
Take 65% table salt and mix it with 10% Epsom salt and 25% Morton's Salt substitute (potassium chloride).
You pour this mixture into a shaker and use it to season while cooking or a basic table salt.
According to the Australians you can't taste the difference.
But that might be because the Australians were drinking.
In fact if they were drinking heart healthy they'd be having Bloody Marys with celery.
The antioxidants from the tomato and the diuretic effect and dietary fiber of the celery both help in reducing pressure.
However you want to hold your consumption of booze to two drinks per day.
More and you start contributing to high blood pressure.
So there are a couple of things you can do to start addressing that time bomb beating in your veins.
If you're smart, and I'm betting you are if you got this far, you'll figure a plan to treat this condition without drugs and without a big disruption in the way you live your life.
Isn't it time you give your heart a break?
Fully a third of men who know they have pre-hypertension or hypertension do nothing to control it.
If you got in your car and pegged the tachometer in the red, how long would you expect to go before there was a big bang and pieces of metal flying everywhere? Well dummy, that's what you're doing when you don't control your BP.
Shortcuts To Lower Blood Pressure Lose that gut.
Your body has nearly 60,000 miles of blood vessels and capillaries and adding additional acreage of flesh simply adds an additional load on your vascular system.
You can make a significant dent in your blood pressure reading by knocking off some pounds.
You can add to that drop depending on how you go about losing the weight.
Ideally you'll try to slim down using a combination of exercise and diet.
Both of these methods, if done correctly, can shave even more points.
You don't have to run a marathon but you should get off your duff and do 30 minutes of mild aerobic exercise like cycling or walking each day.
Obviously during the exercise your pressure will go up.
After the exercise it will drop to below your starting point and stay there for about 22 hours.
Training your vessels to increase and decrease pressure is actually an excellent exercise in itself as it keeps the vessels elastic and inhibits stiffening.
Everyone hates diets mostly because very few of us can stick to one.
You don't have to dive in head first just make some smart choices.
If you're going to eat red meat make it from the leaner cuts like top or bottom round roasts.
If there is a reduced fat or fat free version of something you want to chow down, eat that.
Add a banana a day as a way to get potassium, a mineral almost none of us gets enough of.
It's About the Salt Stupid The more salt you eat the shorter your life.
That's what a study from the University of Helsinki reports.
These Finns are not kidding around.
They determined that men who decreased their sodium intake by 30 percent lived 7 years longer than those who continued to eat high doses of salt.
Salt or sodium retains water and that results in, among other things, a higher blood volume which places more pressure on the vessels.
The first medication usually given to HBP patients is a diuretic designed to flush out salt.
The Australians however, have come up with a solution that is typical down under style.
They've formulated a do it yourself salt substitute.
Take 65% table salt and mix it with 10% Epsom salt and 25% Morton's Salt substitute (potassium chloride).
You pour this mixture into a shaker and use it to season while cooking or a basic table salt.
According to the Australians you can't taste the difference.
But that might be because the Australians were drinking.
In fact if they were drinking heart healthy they'd be having Bloody Marys with celery.
The antioxidants from the tomato and the diuretic effect and dietary fiber of the celery both help in reducing pressure.
However you want to hold your consumption of booze to two drinks per day.
More and you start contributing to high blood pressure.
So there are a couple of things you can do to start addressing that time bomb beating in your veins.
If you're smart, and I'm betting you are if you got this far, you'll figure a plan to treat this condition without drugs and without a big disruption in the way you live your life.
Isn't it time you give your heart a break?