Pressure Points!

Facts of Hypertension (High Blood Pressure) You Can’t Afford to Ignore

Strokes, heart attacks, congestive heart failure, dementia, and kidney failure. Those are just some of the direct links of high blood pressure. The obesity epidemic is in full swing, as is the intake of salt and salty food. If you think high blood pressure is someone else’s problem, think again. More than half of the population has high blood pressure!

High blood pressure isn’t like a toothache, a bruise, or constipation. Often, people with high blood pressure experience no discomfort or outward signs of trouble. In fact, many people have high blood pressure for years without knowing it.

Yet, high blood pressure is a killer, a silent killer. Uncontrolled high blood pressure increases the odds that you’ll have a heart attack, a stroke, kidney failure, or loss of vision.

HERE’S WHAT YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE:

1.Your odds of high blood pressure are 90 percent!

An estimated 33 percent of adults have high blood pressure. And the worst part is everybody else ISN’T in the clear. Blood pressure rises with age, so sooner or later, yours is almost certain to reach the level that experts call “high”. But that doesn’t mean that people should wait until their blood pressure is so high that they need drugs to lower it. In fact, most people will never get hypertension if they follow a lifestyle that is active and filled with proper and healthy nutrition.

2.You may be under treatment but out of control.

Only a mere 10 percent of people with hypertension manage to get their pressure below “high”-that is, under 140 (systolic) and under 90 (diastolic). But understand that using drugs will merely suppress the symptoms artificially rather than deal with the root of the problem, which boils down to toxemia and nutritional deficiency. Many people take medication and then forget about their problems. Most people with high blood pressure need at least two medications to get below 140/90. say officials. (If you have diabetes or chronic kidney disease, you need to get below 130/80.)

3. Start with DIET, not drugs

Experts agree: Everyone should follow a lifestyle that lowers blood pressure. But in the doctor’s office, that advice often gets lost. Most physicians give little attention to lifestyle and instead, focus on drugs.

Most people can afford to take a walk every day, eat low-sodium foods, consume more fruits and vegetables, and restrict alcohol or tobacco intake (if not completely eliminate it). Besides a healthier diet, many supplements can have a beneficial effect on the whole body, thus keeping our blood pressure under control naturally.

The same diet that lowers blood pressure may lower the risk of cancer and osteoporosis, as well as heart attacks and strokes!

4. Cut down on sodium and increase the potassium

A key to healthy eating is choosing foods low in salt and sodium. Most of us consume more salt than we need. The current recommendation is to consume less than 2.4 grams of sodium a day. That equals 6 grams (about 1 teaspoon) of table salt a day. The 6 grams include ALL salt and sodium consumed, including that used in cooking and at the table. Besides that, supplementing with potassium has its benefits. It is a mineral element needed by all plants and animals to live and thrive. Potassium has the ability to reverse dysfunctional cells that are often filled up with too much sodium.

5. Give your body a new start through Dr. Lynn Tan’s Detoxification & Rejuvenation Programme (DRP)

Countless people have undergone the DRP and have benefited from it. Many diseases, whether they be a heart condition or a simple headache, are a result of poison and nutritional deficiency.

However acute or chronic it is, its occurrence is related to malfunctioning of the immune system or essential organs, which is very much the root of the problem. The only way to rejuvenate an ailing body and bring it back to health is through a comprehensive and complete detoxification programme that stimulates the metabolism, eliminates toxins, and restores sluggish waste removal functions of the liver and kidneys. This is found in Dr. Lynn Tan’s Detoxification and Rejuvenation Programme.