What to
avoid daily for high blood pressure?
High blood is serious issue and
should not be ignored. There are several reasons why you have high BP in the
first place - the most prominent is stress and unhealthy
habits.
Mental health therapy can fight stress and healthy habits can control and reduce high BP. In order manage and control high blood pressure, Dr. Arvind Agarwal, Senior Consultant with Internal Medicine from Sri Balaji Action Medical Institute shares a brief list of dos and don'ts for high blood pressurepatients.
When it comes to a healthy and right diet, Dr. Arvind recommends, "Diet should be rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and low dairy products. Food can include meat, fish, poultry, nuts and beans." This diet seems feasible but find out what you need to avoid control and reduce high blood pressure. Dr. Arvind also adds, "People should avoid red meat, sugar-sweetened beverages, processed food."
Interestingly if you follow a strict diet to control and reduce high blood pressure to can minus the effect drastically, "If this diet regimen is followed it can reduce systolic BP by 11 and 6 mm Hg in hypertensive population."
Another way to reduce high blood pressure is to up the level of physical fitness. "Exercise is very essential for high BP patients", says the doctor. "It is recommended that one should go for brisk walks for 30 minutes every day for 5 days a week. Also, one should take the stairs whenever possible instead of using the elevator," suggests Dr. Arvind.
In case you are a regular gym-goer or plan to exercise at the gym then this is what he says, "It is advisable that a high BP patient should avoid any form of weightlifting exercises." Inform your trainer of your physical condition, and if you feel uneasy or dizzy stop your workout immediately.
Dedication plus discipline equals success when it comes to lowering high blood pressure.
Source: www.timesofindia.com
16.04.2013
UK surgeon warns India about increasing
heart disease risk
Professor Sir Roger Boyle, a former Director of
Heart Disease for the UK Government, warned a meeting of India’s leading
cardiologist in Kolkata on Sunday that their country faces ‘a tsunami of heart disease’ unless they urgently implement effective
measures for prevention and treatment. Heart disease is the number one killer
in India, currently accounting for a fifth of all deaths; by 2020, this figure
is predicted to rise to a third¸ making India ‘the heart disease capital of the
world’. Worse still, many of those dying are relatively young: heart disease in
India is occurring 10 to 15 years earlier than in the West.
The policies championed by Prof Boyle in the UK
were instrumental in halving deaths due to heart disease over an eight-year
period. Whilst acknowledging the differences in healthcare systems between
India and the UK, he believes that many of the policies for which he was
responsible for implementing in the UK could also be applied here to significant
effect. Most importantly, medical professionals need to engage government at
both a national and local level to agree on a concerted plan of action for both
the prevention and treatment of heart disease.
There should also be good quality data monitoring
put in place to accurately track its success. Prevention of heart disease needs
to be achieved through promoting the adoption of more healthy lifestyles (a
diet involving less fat and more fibre; increased amounts of exercise; less
tobacco chewing); and routine screening of everyone over 40 with suspected risk
factors (a family history of heart disease; overweight; high blood pressure;
high cholesterol). Treatment of established heart disease needs to include
effective lowering of both blood pressure and cholesterol, which could be
cost-effectively achieved with the use of relatively cheap generic drugs.
‘India is facing a tsunami of heart disease in
the very near future unless effective action is taken to reduce both the
prevention and treatment of this condition over the long term’, commented Prof
Boyle. ‘Quite a apart from the human cost, this makes a lot of sense
economically: in the UK, the cost of effectively promoting the concept of
lifetime risk assessment has proved to be only a fifth of the resulting savings
due to improved economic productivity and reduced chronic treatment plus social
care costs.’ Professor Boyle has been supported on his visit to India with an
educational grant from Biosensors International, a global medical device
company specialising in interventional cardiology.
Source: http://health.india.com
16.04.2013
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