{"id":1772,"date":"2019-01-25T19:37:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T19:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naturaltreatmentforhypertension.com\/blog\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2019-01-25T19:37:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T19:37:28","slug":"hypertension-and-fast-food-my-experiment-with-blood-pressure-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naturaltreatmentforhypertension.com\/blog\/hypertension-and-fast-food-my-experiment-with-blood-pressure-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypertension and Fast Food – My Experiment With Blood Pressure Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As a massage therapist my schedule can be very crazy as I can burn the oil at both ends of the day. So I decided to specifically monitor both my food and sleep patterns specifically for a recent two week time span.<\/p>\n

First, I noticed that that four of seven days I was eating “out” close to two times as day at some fast food restaurants. At the same time my coffee consumption increased by at least two cups.<\/p>\n

Next, due to a major change in work schedule I was getting limited sleep many of those nights.<\/p>\n

Finally, I got back into a bit of a bad habit of eating junk food, you know things like chips, chocolate bars and pop.<\/p>\n

As rule for me, I take my blood pressure at the end of the day and first thing in the morning to see where things are at.<\/p>\n

To put it mildly I had quite the scare one night when I took my blood pressure and it was 160\/101. I was able to do some breathing exercises and brought it down to 124\/84 in a fifteen minute time period.<\/p>\n

To add insult to injury I put on close to fifteen pounds of fat in that two week time span. No wonder my blood pressure went up.<\/p>\n

The fact that I had worked so hard over the past few years to get my blood pressure under control and blew it in two weeks got me scared, angry and refocused.<\/p>\n

So I made some lifestyle changes to lower my blood pressure and control it once again.<\/p>\n

I’ll be honest, it is simple but not easy. I had to make some lifestyle behavior changes. Here are some of things I did:<\/p>\n

1.\tReplaced some coffee with green tea or water
2.\tReplaced fast food with home made meals
3.\tWent to bed earlier
4.\tGradually started exercising – light cardio
5.\tSignificantly reduced my salt intake.<\/p>\n

I still have the occasional coffee and have the odd night when I get less than a desirable amount of sleep I need. Also I still eat “junk” food from time to time. I am human after all. That being said my blood pressure is in control.<\/p>\n

Both you and I know it is easy to get into some poor lifestyle habits; however it is simple but not easy not to change them.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tMichael Wolfe Grafstein is a registered massage therapist who discovered a natural solution to lower high blood pressure with out the harmful side effects of hypertension<\/b> medication. To find out how he can help you go to http:\/\/www.hypertensionking.com<\/a>“This article is part of the 30 Day Article Challenge in support of raising awareness for Congenital Heart Defects at http:\/\/CHDinfo.com<\/a>”\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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