High Blood Pressure (Hypertension) it has been argued by at least one Medical Practitioner is a disease caused by and large by the simple demands of modern living. OK I'll go along with that but maybe this is just slightly too simplistic a definition. OK so we all feel our blood pressure rise and when we run for a bus or a train or when our favourite football team win (or worse lose) but what are the contributory factors that make up this natural phenomenon.
What are these factors? What is it about our modern day lives and the pressures and stresses caused that have resulted in this condition?
Well things are never that simple but when you stop to think about how our lives are made up, what we do, we actually try and force more into our everyday lives than is actually necessary. Such is life.
That having been said, what exactly are these factors that have such an effect on our every day lives and our health?
They include some of the following:
* The way we cope with the stress of modern day living. How do you react when you have waited for five minutes in the Supermarket checkout queue only to be told it is closing!
* Our social and emotional life. Is life just one constant round of running after one event after another whether this is chasing the family from one event or another or just racing around from one school or college to another?
* Our home and family life. Is it happy or stressed? Do you or your partner get on? Linked of course to this is one of the less talked about but funnily enough one of the more keenly queried side effects of high blood pressure and that is impotence. Joking apart has your life style and your high blood pressure affected your sex life. As the eagles famously sang in their hit "life in the fast lane" - "she was too tired to fake it, he was too tired to make it......life in the fast lane"
* Our Personality type. Back to the old "do you threaten to rip the heads of parking wardens when you get a ticket?"
* Our exercise habits. How much of a couch potato are you? Is your only exercise in life either walking from the car to the front door or reaching for the TV remote?
* Our weight. Do you have the ability to say no when offered that fourth portion of food?
* The ability to relax. Can you relax? Are you the type that can only relax after the fourth whisky or Gin?
* Our sleep patterns. Again can you? Lack of sleep is one of the major causes of disharmony in life today and most of us operate the sort of sleep deficit that would give most of us well.......heart failure.
* Vitamin and Mineral intake. Is your only mineral intake a Coke mid morning or last thing at night? Have you ever considered what might actually make up the food we eat?
* The tendency for use and misuse of additive substances such as Alcohol and Tobacco, Caffeine, and Drugs. Yes non of us do drugs anymore, we are all clean.......woops....there goes the neighbourhood under the weight of the bottles and packets as the Community Refuse truck drives down the road!
When you actually consider only a fraction of the above is it any wonder why not only is their a large proportion of us who suffer from High Blood Pressure (he says downing another coffee) but there is an even larger number of folks out there who suffer from High Blood Pressure and don't even know it yet!
Make a few changes to your lifestyle habits above and you will see slowly but surely changes to your health and welfare. Not overnight and maybe not enough to remove the need for some form of medication or drug therapy but enough that may give your Health Practitioner or Doctor the hope that you may be on the way to beating this condition or at least managing it responsibly.
What are these factors? What is it about our modern day lives and the pressures and stresses caused that have resulted in this condition?
Well things are never that simple but when you stop to think about how our lives are made up, what we do, we actually try and force more into our everyday lives than is actually necessary. Such is life.
That having been said, what exactly are these factors that have such an effect on our every day lives and our health?
They include some of the following:
* The way we cope with the stress of modern day living. How do you react when you have waited for five minutes in the Supermarket checkout queue only to be told it is closing!
* Our social and emotional life. Is life just one constant round of running after one event after another whether this is chasing the family from one event or another or just racing around from one school or college to another?
* Our home and family life. Is it happy or stressed? Do you or your partner get on? Linked of course to this is one of the less talked about but funnily enough one of the more keenly queried side effects of high blood pressure and that is impotence. Joking apart has your life style and your high blood pressure affected your sex life. As the eagles famously sang in their hit "life in the fast lane" - "she was too tired to fake it, he was too tired to make it......life in the fast lane"
* Our Personality type. Back to the old "do you threaten to rip the heads of parking wardens when you get a ticket?"
* Our exercise habits. How much of a couch potato are you? Is your only exercise in life either walking from the car to the front door or reaching for the TV remote?
* Our weight. Do you have the ability to say no when offered that fourth portion of food?
* The ability to relax. Can you relax? Are you the type that can only relax after the fourth whisky or Gin?
* Our sleep patterns. Again can you? Lack of sleep is one of the major causes of disharmony in life today and most of us operate the sort of sleep deficit that would give most of us well.......heart failure.
* Vitamin and Mineral intake. Is your only mineral intake a Coke mid morning or last thing at night? Have you ever considered what might actually make up the food we eat?
* The tendency for use and misuse of additive substances such as Alcohol and Tobacco, Caffeine, and Drugs. Yes non of us do drugs anymore, we are all clean.......woops....there goes the neighbourhood under the weight of the bottles and packets as the Community Refuse truck drives down the road!
When you actually consider only a fraction of the above is it any wonder why not only is their a large proportion of us who suffer from High Blood Pressure (he says downing another coffee) but there is an even larger number of folks out there who suffer from High Blood Pressure and don't even know it yet!
Make a few changes to your lifestyle habits above and you will see slowly but surely changes to your health and welfare. Not overnight and maybe not enough to remove the need for some form of medication or drug therapy but enough that may give your Health Practitioner or Doctor the hope that you may be on the way to beating this condition or at least managing it responsibly.
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