Get Your Body Healthy

If our bodies are to function properly then one important thing to remember is our blood pressure. Stroke or Heart Attack are the risk factors associated with high blood pressure. Get it chacked once or twice a year to keep your mind at rest and more often if you that any of your family have ever had blood pressure that was high.

The force of our blood against our arteries as it is pumped by the heart is what is known as our blood pressure. The heart will pump blood around our bodies using our arteries as it beats and this is when the pressure is most which is known as systolic pressure and then the heart has a quick rest before its next pump and this is the lower pressure know as the diastolic ppressure.

There are two numbers that make up your blood pressure reading and a normal blood pressure reading for an average healthy adult would be 120/80 this is spoken as 120 over 80. The 120 is you higher systolic pressure and the 80 is your lower diastolic pressure. Any higher result than this and your blood pressure would be desrcibed by your Doctor as high.

So if your blood pressure was 140/90 then your doctor would class that as high blood pressure and would investigate why it could be reading high. So you would be advised to possibly make some changes in your lifestyle to bring your blood pressure down. The Doctor would probably want to see you again for another reading the following week.

If you have room in your lifestyle forsome good healthy changes then this is what your Doctor will target with you first if you continue to get higher than normal BP readings. It would be wizse at this point to think about these changes seriously.

There are many things that can cause Hypertension, over weight, alcohol and smoking to name just a few. There are also many things you can change about your lifestyle to lower your blood pressure naturally, regular exercise and weight loss ( only if you are over weight ) are just a couple to start with.

The alternative to bringing down high blood pressure naturally by lifestyle changes is medication. Your Doctor may decide that you will have to take drugs to lower your blood pressure to the normal level.There are plenty of different blood pressure medications to choose from.

With Medication comes possible side effects, so it is worth putting the effort into trying to lower your blood pressure without drugs.

This is why it is important to have your blood pressure checked, Many people are at risk of stroke or heart attack because they have high blood pressure and don’t even know it, they are living with a time bomb. High blood pressure is known as the silent killer because there are not always any kind of symptoms that you have it.

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