Tag: Blood Pressure

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While pickles give you probiotics and antioxidants, it takes just 3 pickles (4") to cross your daily sodium quota, while 4–6 gherkins (3") cross the sugar quota. It's easy to have one too many, but when you do, pickles raise your blood pressure and blood sugar. Years of eating too many pickles can even put you at risk of stomach cancer. If you have high BP, diabetes, kidney or heart disease, and gastritis, limit intake and focus on fresh veggies.

Hypotension is blood pressure (BP) below 90/60 mmHG. Usually, low BP alone is not unhealthy, and some people may have it all the time. But it becomes a cause of worry if it makes blood flow to the brain and vital organs inadequate and manifests as clammy skin, blurry vision, dizziness, or is linked to a health condition like heart disease. Its most severe and fatal form is shock, where the patient can even get a stroke or heart attack.

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To reduce high blood pressure, begin with a heart-friendly diet called the DASH eating plan. This plan encourages consumption of foods rich in foods rich in potassium, magnesium, and calcium and low in sodium. So, make sure your diet includes beetroot juice, dark chocolate, pomegranates, spinach, fatty fish, oats, watermelon, garlic, flaxseeds, blueberries. But remember to keep your sugar and salt intake in check.

Cut back on salt, processed and ready-to-eat meals to lower overall sodium intake (keep your intake to under 1500mg/day!). Binge on flaxseeds, grapefruit, blueberries, oats; skip those drinks and smokes to lower cholesterol as well as your odds of getting heart disease. Exercise daily/an hour thrice a week. Head outdoors, soak up some sun to ramp up your D levels.

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Moderate running doesn't trouble the heart in people with high BP. In fact, it lowers BP, and regular running keeps it from rising even on exertion and boosts your oxygen intake, thus improving your performance. It solves your stress and weight issues and helps your heart. Running for 30 mins daily, even in installments, helps in cases of resistant hypertension where meds can't. Run, jog, or walk, but don't sprint.

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Late afternoon or early evening is the best time to run as your BP, core body temperature, levels of certain hormones, joint flexibility, energy, and lung function all peak around this time and enhance your performance. The body is not primed for a morning run, but if you have health issues like high BP or depression, morning runs help more. Having said that, if you're comfortable with whatever time you run, stick to it. Don't upset your body's rhythm by changing the time.

Primary hypertension develops over years without any evident cause; the secondary type is due to underlying ailments like thyroid problem. Signs, albeit rare, include chest pain. To prevent it, eat veggies, lean meats. Reduce stress, smoking, and drinking. Walk or swim. Hypotension (low BP), oft due to malnutrition, is cured with a good diet and lifestyle. Low BP can be normal for many and doesn't always indicate hypotension.

Besides age, stress, or inactivity, a cause of high BP may be certain stimuli to the immunity system that increase B cells and antibodies, which stick to artery walls, causing inflammation. This stiffens and scars arteries, leading to high BP. Blocking B cells may be a cure. Preventive high-fiber, low-fat, low-sodium diet (seeds, fish, etc.), light exercise, and regular BP monitoring (as symptoms rarely manifest) are also advised.