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From: www.saga.co.uk

Drink skimmed milk for lower blood pressure

Consuming lots of low-fat dairy products, like skimmed milk and low-fat yoghurt, could cut the risk of developing high blood pressure and help maintain a healthy heart, say scientists writing the in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Researchers from Wageningen University in the Netherlands looked at 2,245 adults aged 55 and over who did not have a history of hypertension (high blood pressure). The volunteers were interviewed by a trained dietician and dietary habits including dairy intake were recorded.

Blood pressure was assessed at the beginning of the study and again two years later. High blood pressure was defined as 140/90 mmHg or above.

The team found that those people who consumed the most low-fat dairy had a 31 per cent decreased risk of high blood pressure compared to those who consumed the least. The same association was not found with high-fat products like full-fat milk or cheese.

This is not the first study to show that a healthy diet can significantly cut the risk of developing high blood pressure and heart disease.

“Trials show a diet rich in fruit, vegetables and low-fat dairy products can substantially reduce blood pressure,” say the authors of the study. “Although the underlying mechanism remains to be established, it has been linked to proteins, bioactive peptides and minerals such as calcium, potassium or magnesium.”

Around 10 million people in the UK have high blood pressure which is a major risk factor for heart attack and stroke. High blood pressure tends to run in families and is also more common in people who smoke or are obese.

People diagnosed with hypertension are encouraged to make lifestyle changes to lower their blood pressure including following a healthy diet, losing weight and reducing salt, caffeine and alcohol intake. If blood pressure levels remain at 160/100 mmHg or above drug treatment may be advised. There are several medications for hypertension including ACE (Angiotensin-converting enzyme) inhibitors, calcium-channel blockers, diuretics and beta-blockers.

Mike Rich, Executive Director of the Blood Pressure Association welcomed the study but cautioned against over indulging in low-fat dairy.

“While this study is further evidence that a healthy diet can help reduce the risk of developing high blood pressure, there is not enough evidence to say that low fat dairy products alone can do this, ” said Rich.

“So we wouldn’t suggest that people need to start gulping down gallons of skimmed milk or other low-fat dairy products just yet. It’s all about balance – opting for low fat in place of high fat dairy products, as part of a low-salt diet with lots of fruit and vegetables will set you on your way to lifelong healthy blood pressure.”

Simon Foster

Milk has loads of calcium.

Calcium plays a role in the constriction and relaxation of your blood vessels. Supplementing with calcium has helped lower blood pressure in a number of studies.

If drinking loads of low-fat milk everyday isn’t your cup of tea talking a daily calcium suppliment (500 – 600 mg) will help put you on the road to lower blood pressure.

From: sicknessmatter.blogspot.com

Hypertension Dangers

… Now according to an article I recently read on the Internet what I have written above is a load Rubbish as our BP changes constantly (I accept that) and that consistent High Blood Pressure can be a sign of a problem (I accept that), But he then says that lowering Blood Pressure with medication does not do any good and if the Doctor can’t find a reason for the High BP then that is what is normal for the individual.

Well how about that, I should tell you that it was written by a Pharmacist who hates drug companies. But I do agree with one point that he does kind of make and that is that Doctors do tend to dish out drugs very readily, which is a bit suspicious when there is such a high profit in them.

If your BP is higher than normal then that is not normal and for anyone to suggest that this is normal for the individual is crazy. So if you come across the same article then don’t take it in, instead consult a Doctor.

Don’t let High Blood Pressure go untreated, because long term you could have kidney failure or have a stroke or heart attack. Talk to your Doctor about your options.

Simon Foster

Fact: Blood Pressure medications don’t cure high blood pressure. If they did, after you took them you’d be OK.

Unfortunately, hypertension medications only treat the symptoms and not the cause – so you have to take them till you die – which according to statistics will be sooner than if you never took any in the first place!

Thankfully there are pleasant, natural and permanent ways to reduce your blood pressure and risk of stroke and heart attack.

I speak from direct experience – not just theory and studies.

To see my reviews on natural remedies click here: Lower Your Blood Pressure – Natural Cures Review

From our friends at: theperspective.info

Laughter Promotes Heart Health & Lowers Blood Pressure

Laughter is not only an effective stress-reliever, but can be heart-healthy, according to research presented today at the American College of Sports Medicine’s 56th Annual Meeting in Seattle. Two separate studies examined the role of a good laugh as it relates to health. One of the studies took an inverted approach to previous research on the harmful cardiovascular tolls of stress and negative mood. A small group of healthy adults were instructed to watch either a comedy or documentary film, and were monitored for carotid artery activity during the films.

Subjects who watched the comedy benefited from improved “arterial compliance,” the amount of blood that moves through the arteries at a given time. Conversely, decreased arterial compliance is often associated with high blood pressure and heart disease. “Arterial compliance was improved for a full 24 hours after subjects watched a funny movie,” said lead researcher Jun Sugawara. “Laughing is likely not the complete solution to a healthy heart, but it appears to contribute to positive effects.”

Simon Foster

Husband has got into health food recently and yells at the wife as she’s on her way to the greengrocer -  “MAKE SURE IT’S ORGANIC!”

So the wife asks the clerk at the greengrocer -  “Are  these all organic?”, pointing to the shelves of vegetables on display.

New at the job the young clerk responds – “I’m not sure. What do you mean by ‘organic’?”

Loosing her patience the wife responds – “Listen, I’m buying for my husband and I need to know – HAVE THESE VEGETABLES BEEN SPRAYED WITH POISON?

“Oh no,” replied the clerk, “you have to do that yourself.”

From: myhealthmattersnow.com

Danger-High Blood Pressure

Are you in danger with high blood pressure? What is high blood pressure? What do the numbers mean when you have taken your blood pressure reading?

Your blood pressure is the force of your blood pressing against the wall  of your artery. Each time your heart beats, it is pumping blood through your blood vessels. When your heart beats and is pushing your blood into all the arteries, is what they call the systolic pressures. Then when the heart rests, as that is what they call it- when between its beats, is when the pressures decline and that is what they call the diastolic pressure.

When you have your blood pressure taken there are always these two numbers of the systolic and diastolic pressures. Systolic is the top one and diastolic is the bottom number. They say the almost perfect numbers are like 120/80. This is a base for you to go by when dealing with blood pressures of either the high blood pressure and also for low blood pressures.

So what is the danger of high blood pressure? Some risk factors include things like:

1.Stroke

2.Heart disease and heart attacks

3.Kidney diseases

4.Can cause blindness

5.Dementia

Isn’t this list scary enough for you to take charge of your health and the danger of high blood pressure? Remember, it’s sometimes called the ‘Silent Killer’ and there is a reason for that ugly name. Taking your blood pressure is necessary for all of us and with proper diet and exercise can be controlled very well with eating lots of raw fruits and raw vegetables and low-fat  healthy foods.

Simon Foster

There’s been a lot of talk lately about getting everyone down to a 120/80 level – even if it requires everyone to be put on drugs for life.

This is pretty much whats going on these days and distributors of blood pressure lowering drugs are reaping billion dollar bonanzas in the process.

The old rule of thumb of systolic 100 + you age has been turfed – not that you hear the international pharmaceutical companies complain.

The problem with blood pressure lowering medications is twofold.

First, they don’t cure the cause, just the symptoms. Which means you have to take them till death.

Second, studies have shown that those on blood pressure lowering medications are, on the average, at greater risk of heart attack and stroke.

Thankfully there are a number of effective natural cures to high blood pressure that you do.

For a review of natural remedies click here.

From www.nigerianbestforum.com

Using data from national health surveys and from the U.S. National Center the researchers estimated how many lives would be saved and deaths prevented if a risk factor were at the optimal level, creating what they called a comparative risk assessment. The optimal level for smoking, for instance, would be no smokers.

”We put these surveys of levels of these risk factors together with epidemiological studies that tell us how bad they are, and this led to estimates of the number of deaths that are caused by each risk factor,” Ezzati said.

Being overweight or being physically inactive each accounted for 1 in 10 deaths. The dietary risks associated with the highest risk of death were high salt intake, low omega-3 intake and high trans fat intake.

Dr. Ramachandran Vasan, chief of the section of medicine and epidemiology at Boston University School of Medicine and senior investigator for the Framingham Heart Study, said the researchers tried to quantify risk factors that included metabolic, dietary and lifestyle issues.

Their findings have ”a lot of public health importance,” he said. Vasan had no involvement with the study.

Ezzati agreed, saying the study results would show public health officials that ”efforts to reduce smoking and lower blood pressure seem to have run out of steam.”

Asked if the blood pressure risk factor was due to controlled or uncontrolled blood pressure, he said: ”Controlled is an arbitrary term. Many people [with high blood pressure] who are controlled [on medication] are still at risk, because it is still high.”

But Vasan said that, on an individual level, the study offers an important take-home point. ”It reinforces the idea that it‘s a good idea to stop smoking and to periodically visit your doctor to get your blood pressure and your cholesterol checked,” he said.

Simon Foster

Response: The problem with taking medication to control blood pressure is that it treats the symptoms and not the cause – which means you have to stay on them till death.

Other studies have shown that those on high pressure medications have a greater risk of heart disease and premature death.

So what’s worse – high blood pressure or the treatment?

The best response to high blood pressure is a change in lifestyle to get your body back in balance.

Simon Foster

Eating too much salt increases blood pressure. We should all aim to eat less.

Up to 3/4 of the salt we ingest is already in prepared foods we purchase at the store. Processed meats and canned good in particular.

You can virtually eliminate salt in your diet by cooking with basic unprocessed foods – meat, vegetables, fruits, grains, etc.

But don’t do it!

Salt is a vital element that helps regulating water retention around cells. A study has shown that those with the lowest amount of salt intake had a 20% higher risk of suffering heart attack or stroke.

Everything in moderation. Around 6 grams of salt a day is considered a healthy intake.

But not all salt is the same.

White table salt most of us were brought up on  has been highly refined and processed removing all the nutrition and leaving us with sodium chloride.

Sea salt harvested in the age-old traditional method maintains all the natural nutrients your body will love you for.

In the words of Kevin Riley:

Celtic sea salt has gained fame in the culinary world … treasured as one of the finest condiments. You should be using this wonderful salt in your kitchen … and on your table. It is unlike other salts … much more than just sodium and chloride – it is rich with minerals and trace elements.

This natural sea salt is harvested from acres and acres of preserved pristine marshes … off the northwest coast of France. The salt flats are large pans of grey clay, into which the seawaters of the Atlantic are channeled. There the sun and wind evaporate the water … leaving a mineral-rich salty brine.

The salt crystals that form … pick up a light grey color from the clay mud. The clayionizes the salt – making it richer in healthy electrolytes. Celtic sea salt is carefully harvested using ancient Celtic methods. Only wooden rakes are used to gather the salt by hand … no metal ever touches the precious salt.

The final product is a nutritious unrefined sea salt … with a pleasing light grey color … slightly moist … and delicious. This wonderful salt can be used in all your cooking – it tastes fantastic sprinkled on garden-fresh tomatoes.
Enjoy the healthy salt that was collected by the early Celts … and keep your body’s electrolytes in balance.

- Get Natural! Drop Your Blood Pressure

The most well known Celtic Sea salt is Sel de Guerande harvested on the northern shores of Brittany.

Their website is in French, English, and German, as well as the local tongue, Breton. You can order Sel de Guerande on line there but only through French. When I tried it wouldn’t accept my UK credit card for some reason. I guess my French languages skills aren’t adequate.

Nevertheless I found another website that that sells the Celtic Sea Salt (and at a better price too)  from London however. If you interested in trying out a bag check out the London Fine Foods Group.

From: www.cholesterolrevealed.com

My Blood Pressure is sometimes high but not all of the time,for this reason i dont want to take any medication. I heard garlic suppose to be good for blood pressure. Also i have high cholesterol for many years and it does seem to be going down. I dont eat a lot of fat and dont like dairy product (dont drink milk or like cheese). I do however like to drink half a bottle of sweet wine every day.Is this why my cholesterol is so high. Waiting for your reply. Thanks.

Simon Foster

Response:

Garlic prevents hypertension by blocking inhibitors, producing more nitric oxide gives good control over blood pressure. Eat garlic, raw, everyday.

A study with obese, hypertensive men showed a marked reduction in blood pressure that lasted through the afternoon after drinking just one glass of red wine with the noon meal. (The ethanol and polyphenols in red wine work together to enhance nitric oxide.)

This protective flavonol is especially high in the dark red wines such as merlot,  cabernet, zinfandel,  shiraz, and pinot noir.

Cheers!
Simon Foster

P.S. Get more information on how what to eat and how to live to lower your blood pressure naturally from Kevin Riley’s guide Get Natural! Drop Your Blood Pressure at www.naturalbloodpressure.com

from: www.forum.onlineopinion.com.au

Bruce, what is the relationship between salt intake and sweating?

I like my salt, but I also lose a lot of salt just about every day, from extensive sweating due to a good hard hike or run most days and bushwalking most weekends. My blood pressure is excellent and always has been.

Can salt have negative effects such as contributing to the hardening of your arteries and hence to an increased likelihood of heart attack or stroke, while outwardly appearing to present no problem if your blood pressure remains good?

If you sweat a lot, how do you know how much salt is too much?

Posted by Ludwig, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 12:39:28 PM

The new story about the possible link between CMV virus and hypertension has caught on like wildfire on internet world.

From: http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/rss/article/670257

WASHINGTON – Provocative new research suggests that a common virus might play a role in high blood pressure.

The work, by Harvard scientists, so far is only in mice – and the usually symptomless infection is so widespread that proving an effect in people will be tough.

Still, it’s the latest clue that infections may somehow affect a number of the factors that lead to heart disease, from stiffening arteries to obesity.

“There’s likely to be considerable skepticism about this in the medical profession,” acknowledged lead researcher Dr. Clyde Crumpacker, an infectious disease specialist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

But, “what we would postulate is yes, there can be persistent infection of blood vessels that could be leading to high blood pressure.”

At issue is cytomegalovirus, or CMV. More than half of U.S. adults are infected by age 40, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

It’s a lifelong infection but the vast majority will never even know they have it. ……

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Almost one in three adult Americans, or 72 million people, and almost one billion people worldwide have high blood pressure. It’s a leading cause of heart disease and strokes.

Poor diet and lack of exercise are key risk factors, but doctors don’t understand all of the underlying triggers of hypertension – including why some couch potatoes never get it and some thin, fit people do.

“It’s an intriguing report” that calls for more research into the possible effect, said Dr. Cheryl L. McDonald of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, which funded the work.

But she cautioned that any human testing would be years away.

Response:

I wouldn’t get your hopes up about the CMV – hypertension connection as it’s largely based conjecture.

The best way to combat high blood pressure is to lead a healthy lifestyle including diet and exercise.

From: http://bloodpressurequestions.org

My brother has Lupus and the doctor has tripled medication on steroids, but recently he has had high blood pressure. Is there anything out there that is not a drug and can help him reduce his blood pressure?

Response:

There are ways to reduce blood pressure naturally (without resorting to prescription medications).

Why would anyone want to do this? Apart from many unpleasant side-effects with much prescribed medication there is the fact that once started you’re a on them for life.

Why? Because all medications to lower blood pressure only treat the symptoms – not the causes. So as soon as you stop taking them your blood pressure shoots back up.

There are a number of worthy treatments to treat the causes of blood pressure and lower it permanently without resorting to drugs.

I know because I used to suffer extreme high blood pressure (195+) without any clear cause (other than genetics).

I now enjoy normal ranges (120 – 145) without medications.

For a frank review on treatments I continue to use visit me at:

http://highbloodpressurebegone.com/alternative-high-blood-pressure-cures-review/