High blood pressure or hypertension is life debilitating and severely affects your ... more
lifestyle. For people suffering from high blood pressure life is one constant series of restrictions.Yoga, the tried and tested science of living is the perfect answer f...
Advantages: Helps keep a check on your health. Disadvantages: Price maybe, could get a little paranoid about health.
I thought I would have a change from all the heavy stuff I have been writing about lately, and write about a little machine I bought about six months ago.
The Omron MX3. It is a bloodpressure monitor.
All my life my bloodpressure has been wildly erratic. The highest measured bloodpressure I recorded was 180/100. High yes, but I had just spent 12 minutes on a treadmill having a heart test. Anyway it was back to 140/80 within 5 minutes.
They told me that was great.
Anyway when I go to the doctors it varies between 157/95 being the highest and 117/76 being the lowest. Generally though it is about 140/80-85
I have researched this a little and I have realised that your bloodpressure can vary and change very rapidly. I have confirmed this by visits to the doctor and a medical friend of mine who uses a different machine to the one ...
High BloodPressure.
Bloodpressure is one of the main concerns that affects out society. So why is there such concern? Why are so many are there so many strokes that may arise form ignored high bloodpressure? Why does it cause so many deaths?
To help you to appreciate what is BloodPressure, we need to know why this is very important knowledge to know.
Bloodpressure is the physical influence that pushes the blood against the walls of the arteries. Blood is needed to carry its supply from the heart to all of the body’s tissue and organs. Every time this happens, particularly when you are resting it pumps out its blood to the arteries at a rate about 60-70 times a minute.
When your doctor measures the heart, using a bloodpressure it is measured with an instrument called a sphygmomanometer ...
Advantages: Easy to follow guidance with good explanations Disadvantages: You do have to put the effort in when you have read it
Around a quarter of all adults will develop high bloodpressure in their lifetime. In the UK doctors are taking this problem seriously and more and more people are being diagnosed because of better monitoring (and because the government in incentivising doctors to look for it.) Sadly I am one of the people with bloodpressure on the high side but I am trying to find a way to control it without going on to medication for the rest of my life. I have tried a few 'snake oil' remedies which didn't work, and I am still keen to find something which will help which is why I ordered this book from Amazon recently as if there is a 'Natural Way' to control bloodpressure I want to know what it is.
In his introduction James Scala says that about 85% of all high bloodpressure can be controlled by diet, food and lifestyle. He is also points ...