Normal Blood Pressure

Blood pressure monitors have been in use for a long time now, but different devices provide different readings. Among the various health problems, blood pressure variations and related problems are some of the most serious.

If you would like to find out whether you are one of the 80 percent of people who can control high blood pressure or cholesterol with diet alone, have your doctor give you your current numbers. Follow my Show-Me! Diet for just two weeks, then have your doctor re-check your cholesterol, triglycerides and blood pressure.

Salt is essential to human life. But, like most good things, too much can be a killer. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute blame excess sodium (salt) as a major reason for the high blood pressure that causes 400 daily American deaths from heart attacks and stroke. These deaths are equivalent to a jet airliner crashing every single day.

The Mediterranean diet is not some new fad diet … dreamed up by a weight-loss “guru” or as a new health measure. It is thousands of years old. People living along the Mediterranean Sea have been eating a natural diet … that has been proven in numerous studies to reduce the risk of heart attack and keep blood pressure from rising.

High blood pressure is on the rise worldwide. But, doctors believe that small lifestyle changes can go a long way in preventing this silent killer.

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I have been swallowing three varieties of blood pressure pills for 10 years. In another month, I expect to be off of them entirely. And that’s with my doctor’s approval.

Some months ago, I was introduced to a relatively new medical science called glycobiology.

Very briefly…the science centers around eight simple sugars. These are not sugars diabetics must avoid. They are food for our human cells.