Controlling High Blood Pressure Effectively (Hypertension)

Controlling high blood pressure is fairly easy with the right medical care and your initiative to follow your doctor s instructions. The hard part is learning that you have this condition, also known as hypertension. High blood pressure is called the silent killer because it rarely shows any symptoms until it reaches the life-threatening stage.

The good news is that controlling high blood pressure can be achieved through medication, changes in your diet, and changes in your lifestyle. There is no cure for hypertension; it is a chronic condition once it takes root. However, controlling your high blood pressure will effectively reduce or even eliminate the severe complications of heart attack, stroke and kidney failure.

What are the Best Ways of Controlling High Blood Pressure?

First you need to consider changing the way you eat. Using too much salt in your diet for instance can cause you to retain water a condition called edema. This causes a reduction in the amount of water you excrete by urination, and excessive fluid retention causes pressure on your blood vessel walls that result in hypertension.

Therefore, you should consider using a salt substitute or a combination of good-tasting seasonings. Not only will your food taste better than ever, but your hypertension will become less acute.

One of the best things you can do in controlling your high blood pressure is to lose weight. There is a definite connection between obesity and hypertension. Your physician will weigh you and make suggestions on how you can lose weight in order to help reduce your blood pressure.

The DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) was funded by the US government and was found to be extremely effective in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1997. Briefly, the DASH diet is rich in fruits, vegetables, dairy products, meat, chicken and fish protein, fiber, potassium, calcium and magnesium. Not only will you lose weight on the DASH diet, but controlling high blood pressure will be much easier.

If you use tobacco products or have more than two alcoholic drinks per day, your physician will counsel you that you must stop smoking/chewing altogether and cut back on your alcohol use. Controlling high blood pressure just won t be possible if you continue these two high risk lifestyle habits. If you need help to stop smoking and/or curtailing your drinking, your doctor will provide you with excellent sources of help with these issues.

Controlling high blood pressure also involves changing your sedentary lifestyle. Lack of regular exercise is a major contributor to hypertension. If you re sitting at your desk all day and watching TV all evening, you re not getting nearly enough exercise. You don t need to go to the gym and pump iron; a daily walk will do very well. Swing your arms, move a little faster. Do whatever you can, whenever you can. You ll be surprised how much effect exercise has on controlling high blood pressure.

Hypertension is often an inherited condition. When you talk with your physician about controlling your high blood pressure he/she will want to know if members of your family have a history of hypertension. You can t do anything about your DNA, but you can take extra precautions if you have a family history of hypertension.

Finally, controlling your high blood pressure may involve medications called antihypertensives. There are several different types of antihypertensives; it may be a trial and error process of determining which one, and what dose, is right for you. Treating hypertension with medication should be used in conjunction with diet and lifestyle changes to be maximally effective.

The High Blood Pressure Solution: Natural Prevention and Cure With the K Factor

The High Blood Pressure Solution: Natural Prevention and Cure With the K Factor One of America's foremost researchers in biophysics outlines a new approach to preventing and managing high blood pressure without depending on drugs or suffering their side effects. Dr. Richard Moore explains the basic nutrient ratio regulating blood pressure at the cellular level, that is the key to keeping high blood pressure under control-and even reversing the condition.

By using the easy-to-follow program detailed in this book, millions of people will be able to eliminate or reduce traditional treatments.

For those already taking medication, the book also includes information on how to work with a physician to safely reduce dependence on hypertension drugs.

First quality paperback edition of the hardcover published by MacMillan, completely updated and revised.
Customer Review: This is amazing information and it does work!
I had a b/p of 130/90 -145/94 I am 55. I was suppose to go on lisinopril but every time I started to get the prescrip. I couldn't do it–it just felt wrong.So, I started researching high b/p and signed up for google alerts(on H/P) and one thing lead to another and to this book. I decided to get the book and follow it. I was never a salt-lover, just the opposite but when I started reading the labels of how much salt is in everything you buy–I was shocked.I would have been considered a "health nut"so, realizing that even by those standards, too much "salt" exsist even in Health Foods! I raised my potassium foods per day and added 300mg of Magnesium/potassium supplement by Country life. The drop in my b/p was amazing. It dropped to 115/72 to 117/75. BUT if I stray– it goes right back up to the 130/90+ b/p. I am genetically thin-I only weight 100lbs. so being told I have high blood pressure was a shock. AND no one addressess H/P in thin people. Dr. Moore talks about "balance" and he is right– for many people it does take maintaining a balance in your diet. If I eat out at restaurants all weekend–the b/p goes back up. That has been a real eye-opener to how sensitive someone's body can be to what you eat. I wish he had a website. There is so much about high B/P in the news lately and since he wrote this book in 1993 it would be good to have his current prof. opinion. He wrote this book before 120/80 was considered High! So, Dr. Moore if you ever read your reviews–please set up a website!