Archive for August, 2010
High Blood Pressure Diet Menu
Nowadays, more and more people are facing the big health problem high blood pressure which has become increasing serious. Do you know anyone around you who has spent too much money in curing this problem but only to find everything tried is futile and their bodies became weaker and weaker? You must be fully aware of that most prescription drugs are synthetic such as Beta Blockers and Alpha Blockers. It means it will damage you body little by little in a long run. What’s worse, all kinds of prescription drugs are quite expensive.
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Diet Coke Will Make You Fat & Other Truths
So it’s not just your imagination, it actually is true. Those zero-calorie sodas people are popping left and right and up and down, ordering with their cheeseburgers and large fries and drinking instead of coffee in the morning or wine at night, actually lead to (or, as they say in medical-speak, “are linked to”) metabolic syndrome, which is a fancy way of saying fat and all its attendant ills.
An article in the New York Times, based upon a study done partly at the University of Minnesota, states that people who drink diet sodas are 18 percent more likely to have high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, and abdominal obesity. Now, I have to admit, there’s a part of me that wants to lecture here because WHAT after all did you expect, drinking something that contains not a single natural ingredient (except water) and floods your system with something called Aspartame — which is, by the way, one of the most widely-tested “foodstuffs” in history because it has been “linked to” (again, those words) a variety of different cancers and neurological disorders?
Not that I blame you. I don’t mean to be churlish. Big advertising did a huge number on the population of the entire world. But come on, this isn’t rocket science. What it is is rocket fuel.
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6 Tips on Cold Remedies
What Can I Buy for Fast Relief From a Cold or the Flu?
Most cold and flu drugs attack symptoms, not the specific viruses. They don’t cure, but they can bring relief, lighter symptoms, or shorten your illness. There’s no one right way to treat a cold or the flu. But here are some questions to ask your pharmacist to get the right over-the-counter medication for you.
#1 Should I Take a Decongestant or an Antihistamine?
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Low Blood Pressure After Exercise
General responses to selected questions from Joel Braunstein, MD, of Johns Hopkins University and Joseph Toscano, MD.
Question:
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Metoprolol Information from
Metoprolol
Generic Name: metoprolol (me TOE pro lol)
Brand names: Lopressor, Metoprolol Succinate ER, Toprol-XL, Metoprolol Tartrate
Metoprolol is in a group of drugs called beta-blockers. Beta-blockers affect the heart and circulation (blood flow through arteries and veins).
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High Blood Pressure Symptoms, Causes, Treatment
High Blood Pressure (cont.)
How is the blood pressure measured?
The blood pressure usually is measured with a small, portable instrument called a blood pressure cuff (sphygmomanometer). (Sphygmo is Greek for pulse, and a manometer measures pressure.) The blood pressure cuff consists of an air pump, a pressure gauge, and a rubber cuff. The instrument measures the blood pressure in units called millimeters of mercury (mm Hg).
Ankle brachial pressure index
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ankle Brachial Pressure Index (ABPI) is the ratio of the blood pressure in the lower legs to the blood pressure in the arms. Compared to the arm, lower blood pressure in the leg is a symptom of blocked arteries (peripheral vascular disease). The ABPI is calculated by dividing the systolic blood pressure in the arteries at the ankle and foot by the higher of the two systolic blood pressures in the arms.
- 1 Method
- 2 Interpretation of results
- 3 Predictor of atherosclerosis mortality
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- 5 References
[edit] Method
A Doppler ultrasound blood flow detector, commonly called Doppler Wand or Doppler probe, is used to register the peripheral pulse while a sphygmomanometer (blood pressure cuff) is inflated over the artery until the pulse ceases, proximal to the Doppler probe. The cuff is slowly deflated, and the corresponding sphygmomanometer pressure at the instant the pulse returns provides the systolic blood pressure reading, for the given artery.
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Foods That Lower Cholesterol & Blood Sugar
Blood pressure and cholesterol levels are highly correlated with diet. Though genes can play a factor, a healthy diet can treat, prevent and relieve elevated blood pressure and cholesterol levels—serious symptoms that can lead to obesity, diabetes, heart disease and stroke. The American Heart Association recommends that nutritious, heart-healthy foods be incorporated into one’s diet, particularly for those people at heightened risk for these conditions.
Whole Grains
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Magnanimous Magnesium
Magnesium therapy is the missing factor in high blood pressure control. When you try antihypertensive diet, blood pressure lowering drugs or supplement and did not get results, why not try magnesium.
Magnesium is the most abundant mineral in the body. When you consider the big four (macro nutrients) like sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium, magnesium is like the super glue that holds everything together. Most homeopath call minerals cell-salt needed for hypertension control. Of all, magnesium is the most important. It is magnanimous in curing many diseases of which hypertension and vascular disease are part. Magnesium is a natural calcium blocker as such helps to dilate constricted blood vessels (atherosclerosis or vascular spasms). In fact, magnesium can reverse arteriosclerotic plaques. Magnesium also help the excretion of excess sodium while bonding with potassium to regulate blood pressure and heart disease.
Heavy metals like lead and calcium can which can raise blood pressure are antagonised by magnesium. Magnesium citrate can also reverse calcification of hardened blood vessels thereby lowering elevated blood pressure, high cholesterol and blood thrombo-embolism. I normally combine magnesium and zinc picolinate to dissolve arteriosclerosis and combat hypertension.