Balance Your Blood Pressure... The Prakratik Way!
Make these natural lifestyle changes today
Prestigious medical and scientific journal, The Lancet, has named High blood pressure, also known as Hypertension, as the 'largest epidemic ever known to mankind.' According to the report it is estimated that nearly a billion people worldwide suffer from high blood pressure.
High blood pressure is a quiet killer, slowly damaging the body from the inside, over a period of time it can result in artery damage, stroke (bleeding in the brain), impaired vision, coronary artery disease, kidney damage, heart attack, congestive heart failure, dementia, peripheral blood vessel disease, etc.
The situation in India is grim and even children are not exempt. Experts
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A sedentary life, unhealthy diet, tobacco consumption, excess alcohol, stress, overeating, canned foods & beverages and high consumption of certain ingredients like salt are linked to high blood pressure. The solution is simple but not easy. A more natural lifestyle. To get you started, here are some Prakratik (natural) ways...
Go Sleep: 6-8 hours of sleep every night is the bare minimum to ensure that you do not lose sleep over hypertension. Of course the quality is as important as the quantity. And remember binging is not the solution to cover lost sleep.
Move Your Body: With our current work-life environment one has to take out time and put in effort in order to keep the body moving. As Newton's first law states, a moving body will stay moving. Any activity that takes the heart rate up will increase the metabolic rate, which will raise the energy requirement and mobilization of fat, which in due course will reduce the blood pressure.
Smoking is Indeed Hazardous: Although the evidence is a bit smoky, tobacco and nicotine has been found to cause a temporary rise in blood pressure. And we are not going to get into the other health issues that the so called cancer sticks can