High blood pressure is known as the silent killer with good reason. Stress, unhealthy eating habits, weight gain, arguments, stress and certain situations can cause your blood pressure to rise. High blood pressure can cause a myriad of health related problems, including stroke the brain and heart attack.
Imagine that you have a flexible bag that will hold two gallons but you have tho and one half gallons to put in the bag.
You keep stuffing and stuffing until you get the entire three gallons in the bag. Imagine the pressure that is put on the bag. It just might burst, wide open.
That is one way to describe high blood pressure. That bag is your veins – dealing with too much pressure, day after day after day.
Over time, the extra pressure causes damage that can become life-threatening. The are several ways to lower your blood pressure so that you can be healthier and feel a whole lot better.
Get Your Body Moving – When you exercise, for nine mines or more, you naturally lower your stress levels, which will also help to keep your blood pressure lower. Exercise will also make you feel better about yourself and that good feeling will spread to other parts of your life
Start Laughing – Having fun has always been a super stress buster. Lower your stress and you lower your blood pressure at the same time. Watch a sit-com, or go to the circus or to the beach and have fun.
Eat Right – Fried foods and rich heavy desserts can do nothing good for your body – so let it all go. If you take the time to find recipes that you like or find healthy alternatives to your favorite fattening foods, you will find that eating right has never tasted so good. And you will lose weigh when you begin to eat healthier foods.
Spinach is very rich in the folic acid. This helps your body maintain normal levels of homocysteine, an amino acid that can cause damage to your blood vessels and increase your blood pressure when there is an excess in the body. Tomatoes are rich in lycopene, an antioxidant that improves blood flow.
Try letting go of a couple of the really bad foods that you eat for one month, and replace them with foods that are good for your body and you will notice a real difference.
Yoga – Try taking yoga classes to naturally lower your blood pressure. Meditating naturally decreases your adrenaline for a few hours and this will lower your blood pressure.
Take Up a Hobby – When you have a hobby that requires repetitive movement such as knitting or crocheting you are totally focused on the task and you mind will let go of all of the worries that are crowding your mind.
Increase Your Fiber – A sluggish system will cause even the best of us to become irritated. When you increase the fiber in your diet, you decrease the amount of trash in your body and this make will make you feel better.
Eat 3oz. Of Dark Chocolate – This delicious treat is loaded with antioxidants that help to ease inflammation, which will help to improve blood flow through your veins. Three ounces of dark chocolate (not milk chocolate) will lower your blood pressure by an average of 10 points according to a recent study.
These are natural ways to lower blood pressure that will help as you continue on the path of better health.
You can also instantly lower your blood pressure if you breathe correctly. Short shallow breathing is incorrect and it can contribute to your elevated blood pressure. Learn to breathe correctly — take long deep breaths.
Just like you have to take high blood pressure medication everyday, you have to work at keeping your blood pressure down naturally everyday. It is a very serious health condition that need to be taken care of, one way or another.
Sources;
* nhlbi.nih.gov/hbp
* MayoClinic.com/health/high-blood-pressure/HI00027
* Prevention.com/lowerbloodpressurenaturally/index.shtml
Reference:
- www.associatedcontent.com/article/5888286/health_benefits_of_knitting_and_crocheting.
- www.associatedcontent.com/article/5882542/will_keeping_a_workout_journal_help.html
- www.associatedcontent.com/article/5875902/facts_about_fruit.html
