Blood pressure is the pressure applied to the walls of the arteries when the heart pumps blood through the body. Blood pressure is subject to change. This change depends on the age, environment, and various other factors like these.
Blood pressure beyond the normal range is called high blood pressure. Similarly, blood pressure below the normal range is called low blood pressure. But, remember that the normal range of blood pressure varies from person to person.
Both these conditions have adverse effects. Therefore, it is necessary to control your blood pressure and prevent it from taking the shape of either hypertension or hypotension.
You can do this by following the preventive measures mentioned below.
Preventive measures for hypertension or high blood pressure include:
Following a healthy eating plan
Maintaining a healthy weight
Being physically active
Choosing and preparing foods with less salt and sodium
Quitting smoking and alcohol
Prevention measures for hypotension or low blood pressure include:
Eating adequate amounts of the required nutrition
Taking adequate amounts of juices and water
Exercising regularly
Maintaining daily records of blood pressure levels
Eating beans, peas, nuts and grains
Eating fish, egg, mutton and chicken
Increasing the intake of salt
The above mentioned list was of things that you need to do.
The list given below comprises of things that you don't have to do:
Take unnecessary drugs
Expose yourself to extreme heat and extreme cold
Smoke and/or drink alcohol
Keep Fasts
Undertake vigorous exercises which cause profuse sweating
Eat fried items and fast foods
Last but not least, sleep for the required eight hours daily. This is necessary for your body to rejuvenate itself.
2007-01-18 23:19:45
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answered by fabby 4
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Maintain the right weight for your height, take some exercise, don't drink too much alcohol or caffeine, quit smoking. If these still don't work, or if your BP is still high it may be simply an inherited condition requiring medication.
High blood pressure over a long period of time can be very damaging to your heart, and can lead to strokes and other problems. If your blood pressure is very high, then I am sure your doctor will have recommended medication. Be sure to take it.
2007-01-18 23:18:17
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answered by catfish 4
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People really can change, it's not a matter of belief. If you want to look at the situation from a purely scientific viewpoint than you could look at research that has already been conducted about the human brain and the development of mental pathways and how they correspond to behavioural patterns. Now it's proven that during childhood it is easier for the brain to develop mental pathways and once you reach a certain age this pathways become "engrained". That's why there is the old saying, "You cannot teach an old dog new tricks." Well the old saying is close but for the saying to be accurate it should be, "It's tough to teach an old dog new tricks." Now lets say you are an adult and there is an old trick you want to unlearn and replace it with a new trick. Like an old habit that you want to get rid of and replace it with a new more usefull habit. Lets say for example all your life you have been lazy and sit around and eat chips and watch TV in your spare time but now you know it's bad and want to change it. You already established nueral pathways will push you to sit on your butt, however will power and a desire to learn new lifestyle pushes you to go to the gym and workout instead. Well, after roughly 21 days of working out in stead of sitting and eating you will have established new nueral pathways which drive you to work out in stead of sitting on your duff. As you work out more and more those new nueral pathways may actually take over the old pathways or the old nueral pathways to sit on your but just get unused and like anything that is unused for long enough they will rot and decay and thus you have a true change in lifestyle because the necessary physiclogical changes have already taken place in your brain. So yes, people truly can change but it does become more difficult as one ages. It also takes a great deal of effort, energy and committment. So I guess the real question is not can people change but, "How likely is it that this person will change?"
2016-03-29 04:28:05
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answered by Anonymous
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With diet (low salt diet) and exercise and weight reduction BP can be controlled to a certain extent .But if the Pressure is still above the normal range, you have no choice but to take medication to control it. There is actually no cutre of high BP.It can only be controlled
2007-01-19 03:25:08
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answered by mpact 3
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Cut out salt from your diet, alcohol, smoking and maintain a healthy weight. Tho some people, like African Americans have a higher propensity towards high BP, it is all in your genes too.
2007-01-18 23:13:02
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answered by Cherry_Blossom 5
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What I know is that you have to exercise and eat right, if you are overweight than it is imperative that you loose some weight...Good Luck unless there are other factors which could be causing your BP to go high, this should help you....Good Luck.
Try to relax also, being a nervous wreck/angry person doesn't help.
2007-01-18 23:12:19
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answered by Anonymous
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The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute has a DASH diet for hypertension. Here is a link.
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/hbp/dash/
2007-01-18 23:26:28
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answered by Anonymous
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If you are not eating a healthy balanced diet, do. Exercise regularly and try not to stress / worry excessively. Also, ask your doctor for advice.
2007-01-18 23:16:01
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answered by Vanessa G 2
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avoid mental and physical stress , do regular exercise, avoid fatty diet ,reduction of your weight ,stop smoking , avoid excessive talking with your partenar and payment the VISTA !!!!
2007-01-18 23:16:36
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answered by Anonymous
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chill out, relax, eat good, have pos att, and be happy
2007-01-18 23:10:56
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answered by lo 2
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