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High blood pressure like most other modern diseases, is a result off our unnatural lifestyle habits.

These 10 tips will help you control your blood pressure naturally -

1) Drink more water - dehydration is a cause of blood pressure

2) Eat your greens - the magnesium content lowers blood pressure

3) Reduce salt - and switch to sea salt

4) Cut out sugar - sugar raises blood pressure

5) Eat more fruit - fruit contains high levels of potassium which lower blood pressure

6) Stop smoking - 1 cigarette raises your blood pressure by as much as 10 points

7) Limit alcohol - to 1 or 2 drinks a day

Reduce weight - dropping a couple of pounds can have a significant effect on blood pressure as does gaining

9) Get more exercise - regular exercise, irregular exercise can be bad for your heart

10) Sooth away stress - stress management is vital to improve the quality of you health and life

Actively practicing these 10 steps will not only cure your high blood pressure, it will also improve the quality of your health and life.

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High blood pressure also know as the “silent killer” is best treated with the following 3 natural cures.

The reason why I’m recommending natural cures is because the drugs that your doctor will routinely prescribe can have some nasty side effects like - nausea, muscle aches, fatigue, breathing difficulties and heart failure, makes you think, doesn’t it?

The 3 natural cures are -

*** CoEnzyme Q10 - CoQ10 is a natural substance produced by the body and supplementing with is will lower blood pressure in most people PLUS it’s side effects will lower bad cholesterol levels and prevents diabetes and gum disease.

*** Taurine an amino acid controls blood pressure on 2 levels - it balances the sodium to potassium levels in the blood as well as reducing the production of adrenaline which raises blood pressure.

*** Arginine another amino acid works on conditioning the blood vessels which prevents them from going into spasm and thus restricting blood flow which will elevate blood pressure.

It also pays to take a daily vitamin and mineral supplement. Numerous studies have proven that a combination of vitamin C and E combined with potassium and magnesium is effective in lowering high blood pressure.

Natural cures can be as effective and in many instances more effective that drugs with none of the harmful side effects.

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P.S. You can buy any of the recommended supplements at our vitamin store, where you’ll find a wide variety to choose from.

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clipped from americansfeedingamerica.org Loneliness increases risk of hypertension: Study In addition to obesity and lack of exercise, a recent study has found that loneliness also poses a potential risk factor for hypertension. The new research, conducted by scientists at the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago, shows that loneliness can add 30 points to a blood pressure reading for adults over the age of 50. The researchers found that lonely older people had blood pressure readings that were as much as 30 points higher than others — even after other negative emotive states, like sadness, stress or hostility, were taken into account. “The take-home message is that feelings of loneliness are a health risk, in that the lonelier you are, the higher your blood pressure. And we know that high blood pressure has all kinds of negative consequences,” said lead researcher Louise Hawkley, whose team published its findings in the April issue of Psychology and Aging.

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Yeh, I’m on the heart failure or shall I say health band wagon again. But it is serious and largely preventable, I know this might sound corny but it is a serious as a heart attack.

So let’s get cracking what can you do today to destroy your heart:

1. Don’t have a regular doctor who knows you, your history and your special requirements, somebody who knows your medical challenges best when it is emergency time.
2. Don’t have breakfast, by breakfast I mean a healthy protein smoothie, not a bowl of sugar laden supposed healthy cereal. Fresh fruit is always great. Not having breakfast prevents your metabolism from firing up properly, it reduces your bodies chances of burning fat.
3. Do engage in major road rage on your way to dropping the kids at school or work, it does wonders for your stress levels and gets your heart and adrenalin levels shooting through the roof.
4. Don’t drink water but instead “quench” your thirst with sodas and coffee, there goes your elimination system, I bet you’re feeling pretty sluggish by now.
5. Don’t have a healthy snack like almonds (unsalted) during the course of the morning to help your metabolism burn all those unwanted deadly fats.
6. Don’t have a healthy wholegrain sandwich with roast beef for lunch, instead grab a burger and fries or even better a insulin inducing pastry.
7. Do have numerous cups of coffee during the course of the day and even add a bit of alcohol just to take the edge off all the office politics.
8. Do become a couch potato when you get home, watch the game, eat chips and drink beer.
9. Don’t do any exercise your body is coping horribly with all the abuse you are heaping on it.
10. Don’t take the time out to relax and spend with your family and friends, don’t tell your loved one you love them and mean it, don’t get out into nature and enjoy the sunlight.

Alarming isn’t it? How many of these 10 things do you do every day, without giving your bodies a thought at all.

That is until it is to late.

Don’t become a statistic, live a long and healthy life instead.

Download This Nifty Heart Failure Risk Calculator.

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Hi there,

I found this very interesting article on heart failure trends in the USA.
As you’ll notice there has been a steady increase in the levels which the study attributes to and aging population, there has also been a slight decrease in the mortality rates.

The fact is that apart from genetics the major cause of heart disease is a bad lifestyle, it is up to you to exercise, drink more water, cancel out stress and improve your diet e.g. less fast/fried foods and more fresh foods.

DURHAM, N.C. – Conventional wisdom holds that as the U.S. population ages, the incidence of heart failure will continue to rise. A new study from Duke University Medical Center challenges part of that assumption, however, finding that heart failure is actually declining among the very elderly. Yet the number of heart failure cases overall continues to rise.

“Heart failure is largely a disease of aging, so we were surprised by the findings,” says Dr. Lesley Curtis, a health services researcher at Duke and lead author of the study appearing in the February 25 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Carefully documenting the incidence of a disease – the rate at which it occurs – and the prevalence – how many people have it at any one time – is critically important, because projections have direct bearing upon planning and resources needed for future health care.

Curtis and her colleagues examined data from a five percent sample of Medicare beneficiaries’ claims between 1994 and 2003 and found that during that period, 622,789 patients
were diagnosed with heart failure.

While the incidence of heart failure fell most sharply among those aged 80 to 84 years old, from 57.5 to 48.4 per 1000 person years, it also rose from 17.5 cases to 19.3 cases per 1000 person-years among those aged 65 to 69 years old.

The study also found that the total number of Americans living with heart failure steadily increased over the ten-year study period, from about 140,000 to 200,000, with more men living with the disease than women.

“From all indications, heart failure will continue to be a major public health burden, consuming billions of dollars each year,” says Curtis. Nearly 5 million people in the U.S. suffer from heart failure, and even though mortality from the disease has fallen slightly, it remains a very serious problem. Nearly a third of those diagnosed with heart failure will die within one year, and
“that figure hasn’t budged over the last decade,” according to Curtis, who is also a member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute.

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The study was funded by grants from the National Institute on Aging, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Duke researchers contributing to the study include Drs. David Whellan, Adrian Hernandez and Kevin Schulman, from the Duke Clinical Research Center and Bradley Hammill, Kevin Anstrom and Alisa Shea, from the Center for Clinical and Genetic Economics.

Sources: “EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS”! -Trends in heart failure - 25-February-2008

Also know your blood pressure and cholesterol levels, we are fortunate with all the advancements in alternative and conventional medicine our life expectancy has increased with between 10 and 40 years.

There are numerous natural cures for High Blood Pressure and Cholesterol available today, so there is no reasonable excuse for you to neglect your heart health.

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P.S. - For a great Free heart failure risk calculator go here.

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