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Living with Hypertension

By: Susan Price-johnson

Many people suffer from hypertension (also known high blood pressure). Blood pressure is essential to move blood from your heart through your veins and arteries. But when the pressure is too high it can become dangerous, making your heart work harder and increasing your risk for heart problems, such as heart attacks and strokes. Hypertension may also increases your potential risk for various problems such as kidney disease even blindness.

It is sometimes difficult to determine what exactly is causing the hypertension. It may be a variety of factors of health and lifestyle factors or it could be caused by something as simple as the medication that you are taking. High blood pressure caused by medication is referred to as secondary hypertension. It is almost impossible to determine if you have secondary hypertension without visiting your physician. Frequent checks of your blood pressure are required to determine whether your pressure in a safe range.

Hypertension is however treatable and controllable. You can take medications and bring about changes in your lifestyle to tackle this. You have to make sure that you stay away from stress and learn to take life in your stride. Eating habits also need to be controlled so that you don't enjoy excesses in your diet. Regular exercise is also essential and has far reaching results.

Hypertension affects more those who are overweight. Thus, along with other lifestyle changes you also have to try to reduce your weight. Research has revealed that even a 10 pound drop in weight goes far in lowering your high blood pressure. Of course reducing weight is not an easy task and takes time to happen. You will have to be patient in the mean time.

If you are unsure about how to start losing weight, consider joining a gym and getting a personal trainer. You only need a few sessions and in that time they can show you how to use each of the machines to your full advantage as well as plan out a program that will help you lose weight and become more active.

If your eating habits are poor, you may want to consult with a nutritionist. They may ask to you write down for a week what you're eating; based on this information they will then come up with a plan that you can stick to. Nothing is more alarming than the prospect of trading a favorite food like chicken fingers for carrot sticks. Nutritionists can offer suggestions to make the transition to eating healthy smooth and simple.

If you smoke you need to quit. It's as simple as that. There is no excuse for smoking and no health benefits whatsoever which can cause only serious problems. Smoking raises your blood pressure and creates dangerous hypertension. You need to quit as soon as possible, not only for your health but also for the health of those around you. Second hand smoke is extremely dangerous as well. Be sure to talk to your doctor about different options to help you quit smoking since you don't need to do it on your own.

Hypertension is a very serious condition but it is treatable. You need to start making changes in your lifestyle today to combat the potentially dangerous problems that go hand in hand with hypertension. Even if you don't have hypertension you should quit smoking, start exercising, and start eating healthy. Stopping health problems before they start is the best way to ensure you stay healthy and happy.

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Susan Price-johnson is the owner and operator of E Hypertension, a fantastic resource for information about hypertension, For more articles on hypertension why not visit: www.ehypertension.com/articles
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