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Article #185: High Blood Pressure

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Poor diet, lack of exercise, intense talking loudly and rapidly, increases
weight training and some simple your blood pressure during a normal
activities like public speaking can make conversation. But if you do this during
your blood pressure jump. The cause for angry conversations -- when you are at
concern arises if it goes up and remains your emotional best, the pressure can
up. It is one of the most important shoot up still higher. This spikes the
indicator of cardiovascular problems blood pressure and if chronic, puts you
after the age of 65 and hence, it needs at the risk of coronary heart disease.
to be treated. So if you are suffering However, speaking softly and slowly even
from high blood pressure, it is vital when you are angry will eliminate the
that you should be under constant medical stress on your cardiovascular system.
supervision. But there is no need to ? Speak the truth: Always speak the
worry. You can take care of this problem truth. Lying has been shown to spike
without using drugs by making simple diet blood pressure since it takes a lot of
and lifestyle changes. Go for regular brain-effort to lie. The more you lie,
exercise, stop smoking, manage stress and the more you are stressed and the higher
change your diet to reduce alcohol, fat your blood pressure shoots.
and salt intake. ? Go for aerobic not isometric exercise:
You can also follow the following home Though exercise has been shown to lower
remedies to treat your blood pressure the blood pressure, it is important for
problems: you to choose the right one. In isometric
? Eat celery: Since centuries, people exercises, where you clench and hold like
have used celery and its oil to cure weight training, should be avoided. This
blood pressure. It contains a compound is because holding your breath while
which lowers blood pressure by relaxing lifting causes your blood pressure to go
the muscles lining the arteries. This up temporarily. Choose aerobic exercises
allows the muscles that regulate the in place of isometric exercises.
blood pressure to dilate. Just by eating ? Laughter is the best medicine: To relax
4 celery stalks a day, you can enjoy the yourself completely, choose laughter.
potent benefits of this vegetable. When you laugh, your adrenaline and
? Consume garlic: You can easily lower cortisone levels go down, since these are
blood pressure by eating just one clove the main compounds which have an adverse
of garlic a day. You can eat the clove reaction on the blood pressure. It is the
either raw or in capsule form. Besides it cheapest therapy that has benefited
also helps to lower cholesterol and everyone greatly but more so, the people
triglycerides. who are angry, frustrated or unhappy.
? Talk softly: It has been shown that






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