| The pressure of the blood in our vascular | | | | pressure. |
| system is important for blood to flow | | | | |
| throughout or bodies. With no blood pressure | | | | There is only one way to find out if you have |
| we would simply stop to exist. It is | | | | high blood pressure and that is to have |
| important that the pressure of the blood in | | | | yourself checked. Your doctor can do this and |
| our body fall within a normal and healthy | | | | tell you what is a healthy range for your |
| range. To much pressure can be the cause of | | | | blood pressure. After you learn to check your |
| many health problems. | | | | blood pressure you can do it yourself, its |
| | | | easy to do. After you are checked you then |
| So it is important that you educate yourself | | | | can work to bring it down to a reasonable |
| about blood pressure and what you can do to | | | | level if it is high or if is normal you can |
| control it. There are many thing that we can | | | | make sure you take the steps necessary to |
| do to insure that our blood pressure stays | | | | keep it there. The first place to look is at |
| within a safe range.When your heart beats, it | | | | your diet.There are high risk groups for high |
| pumps blood and this in turn creates pressure | | | | blood pressure, find out if you fall into one |
| on the arteries. | | | | of these groups. |
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| Blood pressure is created by both the force | | | | If you do see what needs to be done to get |
| that your heart creates by pumping blood and | | | | yourself out of a high risk group. Quitting |
| the by the arteries as they resist the flow. | | | | smoking and eating right are the first steps |
| For healthy blood pressure both the heart and | | | | you can take. Excess salt in your diet can |
| the arteries must be functioning properly. | | | | cause a high blood pressure. Salt is an |
| healthy normal arteries are stretchy and | | | | acquired taste and just as you got used to it |
| elastic and how much they stretch has a | | | | you can slowly get unused to it. Start slowly |
| direct effect on our blood pressure. If they | | | | reducing the salt you use. There are low and |
| are not elastic then they are unable to | | | | no sodium salt substitutes available at your |
| deliver proper healthy blood pressure. Recent | | | | food store, just ask the clerk.Remember it is |
| studies have concluded that as many as one | | | | you that is ultimately responsible for your |
| third of adults in America have high blood | | | | own health. Prevention is the key to a |
| pressure. High blood pressure is known as the | | | | healthy body. |
| silent killer because it has almost no | | | | |
| symptoms. | | | | If you mistreat and neglect your health then |
| | | | don't be surprised if in the future your |
| It quietly does its damage and unless it is | | | | health mistreats you. So make you blood |
| checked can lead to heart attack and stroke | | | | pressure a part of you health maintenance |
| and many other health related problems such | | | | program. Do the right things and you will be |
| as kidney failure. Information is the key to | | | | rewarded with blood pressure in a healthy |
| preventing high blood pressure. Knowing what | | | | range and you in turn can avoid the health |
| causes it and what prevents it is the only | | | | problems that high blood pressure can bring. |
| way you are going to control your blood | | | | |