High blood pressure is a lifelong disease. It can usually be controlled but not cured. Once you begin to manage it and start a treatment program, maintaining a lower blood pressure is easier. By controlling your high blood pressure, you’ll lower your risk of diseases like stroke, heart attack, heart failure and kidney disease. You can do it!
The first thing to do is to have your blood pressure checked. If you have high blood pressure, you can do a lot to reduce it. Work with your doctor to determine the best treatment for you.
It may include reducing the fat (particularly saturated fat) in your diet, eating less salt, and changing your lifestyle by losing weight and getting regular physical activity.
Quitting smoking is also important to reduce your overall risk for heart attack and stroke.
Your doctor may recommend reducing how much alcohol you drink.
Many medicines also can help reduce and control high blood pressure. Your doctor will decide whether you need medicine in addition to dietary and lifestyle changes.
Be sure to look at our patient education sheets on high blood pressure. These can be printed out and taken to your physician. There are spaces for you to ask questions and for your physician to write special instructions for you.
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Moderate exercise, lower sodium intake, no smoking, eat better choices, and if all these fail you will need medication.
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Take high blood pressure regulating medication.
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The more weight you lose, the lowr the pressure. Avoid all sodium.. Avoid stress. sleep early each night and rest well.
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I reduced my HBP by cutting out all added salt when I cook and eat foods. Eating more veggies, using them to snack on instead of chips and other high fat foods most of the time. I still indulge in chips and cakes once in a while. More exercise (ugh), I usually walk 2-3 miles two to three days a week and stretching the other days. My medication has been cut down by more than half.
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Diet and exercise are one good way if you have not let it get too far advanced. If that does not work for you then you will have to go on the meds, which they have come a long way in improving high blood pressure medicine in the past five years .
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Also try and avoid caffeine products too. Some of us have high blood pressure and it is hereditary, so medication would be the only way to control it. If you try watching what you eat, picking good choices, low sodium in diet, exercise and try to reduce stress in your life. If that doesn’t work, yes medication can be helpful.
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Many things can help like a diet with plant based foods, low salt intake and low fried foods and exercise. My area is white and has no fast food places. A black area has 6 fast food places on 4 blocks incl. McDonalds and Kentucky fried chicken.
Foods like french fries that are fried and with lots of salt are terrible and cause African-Americans to die before they reach 65. They have the highest rates of hypertension. See site below on way to cure it and home page which tells about healthy diet.
http://www.phifoundation.org/angina.html
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Is it just temporarily High or is it Hypertension (a condition)?
If its Hypertension, it can be controlled and reduced by consuming less sodium, or if it became elevated due to excess weight then increasing activity levels and reducing weight would drop it many many points.
Almost any condition can be controlled by a proper nutritious diet, proper levels of daily physical activity and sunlight, and by properly responding to stress in one’s life– not just coping with it but eliminating stressors!
I have hypertension controlled by medication. And since I have been losing weight recently, it is going down even more.
Whatever you do, take care of it soon. The flow of blood rushing against your artery walls can erode them and cause them to harden– which increases your chances of getting blockages and also heart disease!!
A little love and attention to the body, mind, and soul will go a very long way!!
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I am a Medical Office Personnel and I code these types of conditions on Health Insurance claims… Learned about this stuff in school and by experience! Thank God I caught it early!
All of the above answers are worth looking into. Start now before it’s too late.
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High blood pressure is a lifelong disease. It can usually be controlled but not cured. Once you begin to manage it and start a treatment program, maintaining a lower blood pressure is easier. By controlling your high blood pressure, you’ll lower your risk of diseases like stroke, heart attack, heart failure and kidney disease. You can do it!
The first thing to do is to have your blood pressure checked. If you have high blood pressure, you can do a lot to reduce it. Work with your doctor to determine the best treatment for you.
It may include reducing the fat (particularly saturated fat) in your diet, eating less salt, and changing your lifestyle by losing weight and getting regular physical activity.
Quitting smoking is also important to reduce your overall risk for heart attack and stroke.
Your doctor may recommend reducing how much alcohol you drink.
Many medicines also can help reduce and control high blood pressure. Your doctor will decide whether you need medicine in addition to dietary and lifestyle changes.
Be sure to look at our patient education sheets on high blood pressure. These can be printed out and taken to your physician. There are spaces for you to ask questions and for your physician to write special instructions for you.
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Medical doctors you must consult. But here are some facts moderate exercse no fried foods check your mineral intake clean bottle water is usally mineral free . Try Indium from this site or any where you choose take 20 minutes before you eat or drink on an empty stomach www. fdirep.com\115057 click on wellness trax purchase minerals you can try any site of your choice. no sodas or msg containing foods disguised names of msg. food color food flavor . avoid food labels with hydrolysed protiens processed and frozen foods.corn syurp this alone keeps you hungry even if you are full. indium will take care of you please follow the above.
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INDIUM by Dr robert lyons
I once ran an average of 4.5 miles an hour for five miles on a treadmill. Afterword, I took my blood pressure out of curiosity. It is normally 136/76. It was 104/56. This kinda made me think that there was probably a connection between rigorous exercise and lowering blood pressure.
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The DASH diet (based on the research studies: Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) has been proven to lower blood pressure, reduce cholesterol, and improve insulin sensitivity. Your doctor may have recommended this eating plan; it is also recommended by:
* The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (one of the National Institutes of Health, of the US Department of Health and Human Services)
* The American Heart Association
* The 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
* US guidelines for treatment of high blood pressure
* and, the DASH diet formed the basis for the new USDA MyPyramid, learn more about the DASH diet . . .
This is the user-friendly book to help you develop your complete plan to improve your health through diet, exercise, and sustainable weight loss, if needed.
* The DASH diet, with practical tips, strategies, 28 days of calorie-adjusted meal plans
* A DASH-based weight loss plan
* Painless ways to add exercise you enjoy to your daily routine
* Additional lifestyle changes that support reaching your health goals.
* DASH diet adjustments for people with diabetes or metabolic syndrome
* The DASH Diet Action Plan helps you make your own customized plan, step-by-step.
What is the DASH diet eating plan? It is rich in fruits, vegetables, low fat or nonfat dairy, and also includes grains, especially whole grains; lean meats, fish and poultry; nuts and beans. The DASH eating plan lowers cholesterol and makes it easy to lose weight. It is a healthy way of eating, designed to be flexible enough to meet the lifestyle and food preferences of most people.
The 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend the DASH eating plan as a model for healthy eating for everyone! The whole family can enjoy the DASH diet. New research shows that it is effective in lowering blood pressure in children as well as adults.
How does the DASH diet plan work? The DASH diet helps to lower blood pressure by providing more key nutrients, such as potassium, calcium, and magnesium, all of which are associated with lower blood pressure. These key nutrients are boosted by including more fruits, vegetables, and low-fat or nonfat dairy in your daily diet. Some people see additional benefits by lowering sodium or salt in their diet. Our book includes additional lifestyle changes to lower blood pressure, such as weight loss, exercise, smoking cessation, and moderation of alcohol intake.
The DASH Diet Action Plan is the user-friendly teaching guide to the DASH diet. Initially, many people find it difficult to follow the DASH diet. This book makes it simple to understand and put into practice. And the book makes it easy to lose weight, and has realistic ways to add more exercise. Although the book was not intended to be an aggressive weight loss book, people are writing to say that they have surprised themselves by finding it easy to lose weight following the plan!
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