by Christian Goodman
In the last thirty years or so, the number of people who have suffered the effects of hypertension has increased dramatically.
Because our genes have not changed all that much in the past one hundred years or so, our genes cannot be the cause for this sudden rise in issues relating to high blood pressure.
The other popular explanation for the rise in hypertension in recent years is our change in diet; unfortunately this can not be the entire cause either.
Centuries ago, people have already been eating fatty foods, and there were fewer cases of hypertension then as compared to now.
So what could be the reason for the increase in hypertension, if it is not what doctors and the medical community are claiming it to be?
In other words, while genes and diet may have some sort of an effect on the number of people suffering from hypertension today, and the surprising growth over the past thirty years or so, there is a completely different cause that not enough people have made themselves aware of.
The stress that we have is our lives has a very powerful effect on our bodies and our health, and this leads to hypertension in many people.
As a result, over the span of the past thirty years the number of people suffering from hypertension has climbed by leaps and bounds.
Attributing this sudden boom in the disease to diet, genes and other less effective causes will not allow us to overcome a condition that can be treated and cured with the right treatment program.
We are now only beginning to see the connection between our stressful lives and its impact on our health.
Before, it was thought that stress was solely an emotional and mental issue. Now, it is obvious that stress can have a significant impact on the physical body, causing diseases like hypertension, ulcers, stomach problems and others.
Treating these diseases will rely a great deal on reducing stress, and not on pills and doctors visits.
What makes hypertension such a controversial issue in today’s medical community is the fact that “standard” treatments are not working, and people diagnosed with the disease are still suffering, desperately looking for cures that the medical community cannot give them.
I am offering a completely unique program for combating hypertension that is based on the real, most prevalent cause for hypertension.
By reading this remarkable high blood pressure program that I have created, you will know the real reason behind the causes of hypertension and why it has become a prevalent condition, as well as what it takes to repair the damage caused by stress.
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Written by Christian Goodman on December 27th, 2009 with no comments.
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by Christian Goodman
Have you ever wondered why every visit to a doctor’s office, hospital, clinic, or any other health related place always begins with a check of your blood pressure?
High blood pressure or hypertension, often called the “silent disease” or the “silent killer”, is a measurement of the pressure that is being exerted by the blood against the walls of your arteries as your heart pumps.
Many people with dangerously high blood pressure are walking around without even knowing that they have the disease because there are no symptoms for weeks, months, or even years.
Hypertension is a precarious condition and complications can be very grave. When the heart pumps blood through the walls of arteries that have lost their elasticity, the heart needs to work doubly hard to push the blood through them.
Because the blood needs to pass through every organ in the body as well, the pressure not only affects the arteries but every vital organ in the body like the heart, liver, and lungs.
Since the arteries require greater pressure to keep the flow of blood going, every other organ also suffers from the extra flow of blood needed to keep those weakened arteries filled.
Complications of Hypertension can be life threatening.
You may feel perfectly fine while your body is on the verge of a stroke, heart attack, dissection of the aorta, kidney failure, or irreversible heart damage.
Intake of medicine can control high blood pressure, but healthy living and preventative measures are definitely the keys to wellness.
The are a number of ways to manage and lower blood pressure. Number one is to avoid too much salt. Diets low in salt have proven to be helpful to many people, but especially to those suffering from high blood pressure.
Number two is to exercise regularly. This will help the body in so many ways, one of which is to lower blood pressure. For those who are obese, losing a few pounds can have a very positive effect in lowering blood pressure.
Many people have explored alternative measures and there are reports that some of these alternatives produce a wide range of results. It has been suggested that possible relief of hypertension can be found in a variety of practices including acupuncture, aromatherapy, massage therapy, qigong, yoga, and shiatsu.
One area of relief that most of the medical community will agree on is simple relaxation. Stress has been identified as one negative factor affecting one’s blood pressure so it would be wise to evaluate the things that may be causing stress in your life and finding other ways to deal with those issues.
No matter what solutions you choose or the available options you try, one thing is for sure, controlled blood pressure is vital in maintaining a healthy body that will see you well into your senior years.
The earlier you become aware of your blood pressure levels and start living a healthy lifestyle that will keep them low, the earlier you will start enjoying health benefits that will last a lifetime!
My high blood pressure program can assist you even if your blood pressure is already beyond normal limits. By following a few simple exercises, your numbers will go down easily and in a completely natural way and often within a week.
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About the Author:
Christian Goodman is a widely known health researcher and author of several revolutionary natural health alternative methods. One of his breakthroughs is his natural
hypertension program. You can learn more about Christian on his
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Written by Christian Goodman on December 25th, 2009 with no comments.
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by Christian Goodman
The medical term for high blood pressure is ‘hypertension’. As a general rule, you’re considered to be ‘hypertensive’ if your blood pressure is consistently above the ideal 120/80. Some people are genetically predisposed for having high blood pressure, but there are other factors that often contribute to it, regardless of your genes.
To make you better understand high blood pressure or hypertension, you should know what hypertension really is. When your blood pressure is taken, what is actually measured is the amount of pressure your blood is exerting against the walls of your blood vessels. When you get a higher number, it means that more pressure is being forced against those walls.
Imagine a balloon with water being filled in it. When more water is being put in the balloon, it stretches out to contain the waterup to a certain point. You will see the balloon thinning out as it gets fuller, and eventually breaks if you continue putting water into it.
If you allow your blood pressure to get high and remain there unchecked, your vessels will suffer the same fate as the overfilled balloon. They can and will eventually burst. The location of the burst vessel determines the severity of the results. If it’s a brain vessel, you can have a stroke. If it’s a vessel that feeds blood to the heart, you can have a heart attack or suffer complete heart failure.
High blood pressure is often called the ’silent killer’ because of this. You don’t feel any symptoms at all and you feel finethen the pressure becomes so great and it causes a life-threatening episode.
The top number of a blood pressure reading is called the systolic pressure. This is how much pressure is within the blood vessels with each pump or ‘beat’ of your heart as it forces blood out. The bottom number is the diastolic pressure. This number represents how much pressure exists within the blood vessels in between beats, when you heart is momentarily at rest.
This is why the bottom number is often seen as the more critical value. If your diastolic pressure is over 80, and especially once it gets over 90, that tells the doctor there’s a great deal of pressure being exerted on your vessels, even when your heart is at rest. With high blood pressure, the spurting force of the blood as it leaves the heart the next time could be the one that proves to be too much.
So how do you lower your blood pressure? If you are overweight, lose those excess pounds. If your are overly stressed, avoid and eliminate the causes of stress. If you are smoking, stop. And if you are sedentary, exercise more.
Or you can do something easier, but is quicker and just as effective. You can avail of my Hypertension Program, which I designed to lower your chances of heart attack or stroke by lowering your blood pressure to acceptable levels. What’s more, it does not involve drastic lifestyle changes or hours of sweating in a gym.
It is composed of simple exercises that you can do easily, but the result is nothing short of life-saving.
Written by Christian Goodman on December 21st, 2009 with no comments.
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The effects of stress on the body can be subtle, but over the long run they are deadly. The short-term effects of stress on the human body are well known. When we are under stress, we have increased heart rate, thoughts that race, tense muscles, and adrenaline rushes. With extreme stress, we can get agitated and have a hard time sitting still. Stress is basically the human bodies fight or flight mechanism kicking in. The effects of stress on the mind are similarly well-known. We can get paranoid, frightened, aggressive, or hyperactive. It varies considerably from person to person, but it is quite easy to tell when you or someone you know is under an immediate stress. Then again, the long-term effects are much more subtle. (more…)
Written by Nancy Blackett on December 21st, 2009 with 3 comments.
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A blood pressure monitor is a good thing to have on hand, especially if you know that you suffer from high blood pressure, or have a family history of heart disease. Because blood pressure is an excellent indication of how your heart is performing, and how much stress it might be under, your blood pressure is a vital piece of information in determining your overall health. Indeed, along with your heart rate, your blood pressure numbers are often referred to as your ‘vitals’. One of the first things most doctors or nurses will do when they see you in a treatment environment is to measure your vitals with a blood pressure monitor. (more…)
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There is a staggering amount of people who have started my High Blood Pressure program after being diagnosed with high blood pressure but discovering that they didn’t like the terrible side effects that the medications had on their body.
On a good note, I’ve also noticed the “side effects” of my programs. Once people were able to see results in one area of their life, they began living healthier lives altogether.
Some of the people who tried my Blood Pressure program were not smokers or drinkers, nor did they have a family history of high blood pressure. Rather, they had gained weight gradually throughout the years from having children and/or eating poorly, and this had negatively affected their blood pressure.
There is a vast amount of diet plans available nowadays – try just searching “diet” in your web browser and see the number of results pop up. You’ll also notice a trend with most of these diets; they almost always claim to allow you to lose pound after pound in no time and with little to no effort. Once you read between the lines, you’ll see that they are at best not at all accurate in their claims, and at worst nothing more than starvation diets.
Some of these diets do indeed help you lose a lot of weight, but with negative consequences on other areas of your health. Humans just are not made to lose a lot of weight quickly, but this is in fact what you will do on these diets.
When you drastically change your food intake your body then goes into starvation mode (because you are basically starving yourself). Once you reach your goal of weight loss or you just simply give up out of frustration, your already lowered metabolisms are suddenly forced to handle your normal food intake.
The result is rapid weight gain and serious health issues. Most people end up weighing more after their diet than they did when they started.
This does not mean that every diet will fail. Many of my clients who have tried my program said that once they were feeling better as a result of the program, they were encouraged to try to eat better and generally live a healthier lifestyle.
So if diets usually don’t work, what should you do? My advice is to follow the food pyramid. This simple and effective eating plan that we all learned as youngsters can be the key to eating healthier and losing weight as a result. One person who tried this said that her and her family lost weight without ever feeling starved or punished.
With this method of dieting, most people do not feel that they are on a diet per se. Instead of dieting, they are actually changing their lifestyle – this will in turn give long-term results instead of just short term weight loss.
Another key thing to do when you are following the food pyramid is to drink at east eight glasses of water a day and take vitamins. I do encourage taking vitamins, however always buy vitamins from established companies with proven results, as the ingredients in vitamins are not closely monitored by any health agency.
Any diet that is well-balanced and contains foods from all food groups, even fats in limited and reasonable quantities, is by far the best and most effective eating plan.
Also try my Weight Loss Breeze program, which helps you to lose weight thorough natural breathing and relaxation exercises. My High Blood Pressure program will also prove effective by lowering your blood pressure naturally and with amazing results.
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Christian Goodman is dedicated to finding natural health alternative for health problems that affect a vast majority of people.. One of his biggest challenge was to find a natural method to lose weight without diets or work outs. The results can be found in his weight loss program.
Written by Christian Goodman on December 10th, 2009 with no comments.
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by Christian Goodman
You’ve just had a fight with your spouse or your kids. You’re angry, your face is red, you feel your heart pounding and on top of all that, now you’re getting a headache. If you took your blood pressure right now, it would be alarmingly high.
As our emotion gets intense, our blood pressure shoots up. This is a natural reaction and once your fear or anger subsides, your blood pressure will return to normal levels. More often than not, high blood pressure is only diagnosed when it remains consistently high over a prolonged period of time.
The only way to know is to have it checked on a routine basis, once every couple of years as a bare minimum. If you have any of the following symptoms, you may indeed suffer from hypertension, or high blood pressure. Be aware you could also have high blood pressure without any of these symptoms; that’s why it’s so important to check your blood pressure regularly.
Dizziness Chest pain Headaches Shortness of Breath Blurred Vision or other visual abnormalities
People in the traditional medical system say that roughly 95%of high blood pressure is from unknown causes, and it is called essential hypertension. Such a big percentage is very alarming, but you can do something about it.
There are risk factors that are controllable and there are also those that are uncontrollable. Uncontrollable risk factors are your heredity, age, and race. As you get older, your risk of developing high blood pressure also increases.
In general, men between the ages of thirty-five and fifty are more prone to hypertension, and in women it generally begins following menopause. Also, if someone in your family is suffering from it, you have a higher risk of getting it.
Some races have a greater incidence of hypertension such as African Americans, who tend to develop it earlier and more frequently than Caucasians. You have no control over those risk factors. There’s nothing you can do to change them.
But there are many factors that you do have control over that have a direct relation with you developing high blood pressure. Too much salt intake, excessive drinking of alcohol, sedentary lifestyle, obesity, smoking and stress all contribute to the development of high blood pressure. Do you have many of these risk factors?
Hypertension, if not monitored and treated, can lead to much more serious problems with long-term consequences, like brain, heart, and kidney damage. Delicate blood vessels in the eye can be damaged as well. Due to high blood pressure, the following life-threatening conditions can occur:
Irregular heartbeats, called arrhythmias Heart attack or brain attack (known more commonly as a stroke) Chronic kidney disease, ultimately resulting in kidney failure, requiring dialysis or transplant Hardening of the arteries, called atherosclerosis CHF – Congestive heart failure, a condition in which your heart becomes too weak to be efficient at pumping your blood.
The traditional method of treating hypertension is with aggressive drug therapy, designed to drive down your blood pressure, many with a laundry list of side effects. Plus they most often do not even get the blood pressure down. Remember, most doctors admit they don’t know about 95% of the causes of high blood pressure.
However, I do know the reason, so I’ve developed an exceptional High Blood Pressure Program intended to do the same thing as the medicines without all the side effects.
With simple exercises that are very easy to learn and perform, this method helps lower your blood pressure naturally and helps you eliminate the stress that’s so often the reason for blood pressure problems. You can learn more about this one-of-a-kind program here
About the Author:
Christian Goodman is a well known
natural health researcher and the creator of the Natural Health Blog. His latest work is the
Natural High Blood Pressure program, which has now helped thousands of people to lower blood pressure naturally.
Written by Christian Goodman on December 10th, 2009 with no comments.
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by Pam McKee
For people with sleep disorders, a healthy diet and regular exercise is not enough to combat weight gain. If you suffer from sleep apnea then beware if you’re only losing sleep and not the unwanted fat.
Yes, thats right. Poor sleep might be the culprit of your weight problems!
Chances are if you can not lose weight then an undiagnosed sleep disorder is disrupting your hormonal balance – leading to more weight gain.
And this is not some rare situation. You might be one of the estimated 80 million Americans with sleep apnea who has not yet been diagnosed!
If you have been diagnosed with sleep apnea then you’ll find weight loss will come naturally once you begin treating your apnea. The good night’s sleep brings balance to your body’s functions helping you to lose weight and regain your health.
Sadly some apnea patients feel overwhelmed when using their CPAP therapy and suffer the consequences of not regularly using it. They notice unexplained weight loss and think it is just due to aging when it could have been prevented.
Heres some science behind the connection between apnea and weight gain:
1. Most of you don’t have time to feel run down from lack of sleep. Your body’s solution is to crave immediate energy by carbo-loading in the form of sugar, carbohydrates and other calorie rich foods. In a study by the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, patients with the most extreme cases of sleep problems were also consuming the most calories, protein, cholesterol and saturated fat.
2. The Quebec Family Study found that short sleepers (five to six hours a night) were 35% more likely than average sleepers to have an 11-pound weight gain over six years.
3. Lack of deep, restful sleep increases the levels of the hormone ghrelin in your gastrointestinal tract. This hormone functions to stimulate your appetite. Yes, it makes you feel hungry. It turns out that good night’s sleep is nature’s appetite suppressant.
About the Author:
Pam McKee is Head of Clinical Support at MySleepMask.com, a
ResMed Preferred Internet Provider of CPAP machines and supplies. She has produced a
sleep apnea handbook for apnea patients, available for free at MySleepMask.com.
Written by Pam McKee on December 10th, 2009 with no comments.
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If you have been diagnosed with high blood pressure, or hypertension, it would be convenient for you to have your own blood pressure monitor at home. You can always go to Walgreens or Sam’s Club, or other pharmacies that have the sit down automatic blood pressure machines available to customers who want to check their own blood pressure. These are usually fairly accurate, but your blood pressure may be slightly elevated than it would be if you were checking it at home. (more…)
Written by John Walker on December 10th, 2009 with 2 comments.
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Yes, it is true, now hypnosis can help you to control you anger and to get free from tensions. Some of the easy hypnosis steps can prove helpful for you whenever you get angry suddenly without any reason. These hypnosis techniques can be performed by anyone who has a clear knowledge about how human mind works. And being a safe and secure technique there not any recorded symptoms of this method.
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