SOME THINGS ABOUT HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE It is known that patients with high blood pressure often have a stroke. Many patients experiencing hypertension do not have symptoms of high blood pressure until they experience either a heart attack or a stroke. “The striker is silent.” Today 25% of the entire population suffer from hypertension. You […]
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A high sodium diet can result in many health risks, the worst of which is high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke. This is a well-known fact among the health conscious, and many strive to improve their diets by avoiding the salt they take. Unfortunately, however, sodium ranks high in the foods that many of […]
Blood pressure is the amount of force exerted on the walls of the arteries when the blood is pumped by the heart. It is expressed in millimeters of mercury, or mm Hg. Systolic pressure, the “top” number, represents the highest amount of pressure exerted when the heart is contracting. Diastolic pressure, the “bottom” number, represents […]
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The vast majority of Americans, whether they are actively dieting or simply calorie-conscious, consume diet soda with the assumption that they will keep fewer extra pounds, many still come to fast to achieve that, although they avoid hundreds of extra calories a day, the scales do not change for the better. The key to jumpstarting […]