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In a situation like this, this person should cut some of the fats out of the diet and replace them with high fiber foods. If the doctor has approved it, the patient should also add some exercises to his weekly routine.
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Everybody knows what high blood pressure could bring to the health of a person. While many would like to avoid such complications and bring hazards to the health, there are times when taking the prescribed medication becomes a no-no! There are several things that you can do to lower blood pressure and one of them is to change your diet. Here are 5 diet changes that you can make to lower blood pressure. Minimize salt and sodium intake. One of the most important diet changes to lower blood pressure is to minimize salt and sodium intake. Salt and sodium is one of the variables in high blood pressure. Therefore, cutting back on salt will greatly help. To do this, read labels and learn the amount of sodium in the item. Also, when cooking, find an alternative on salting your food like trying various spices and other seasoning. Make veggies part of your meal. Most often, not all people wants to eat vegetables. However, vegetables have the necessary vitamins and minerals that the body needs to work efficiently. Moreover, eating vegetables along with potassium in particular along with better functioning of the body systems. Add or replace some of the meat in your diet with fruits and vegetables. These healthy alternatives are just what you need to have low carb diet to lower blood pressure healthy body. Get more fiber for your diet changes. Fiber not only do wonders to lower your blood pressure but it also helps lower your cholesterol level. The good news with it is, fiber also help you lose weight in a natural way. Some of the food items that you can try are oat bran, apple pectin, or guar gum. Fiber supplements are also good alternatives. This diet change will help you get rid of your body waste and detoxify naturally. Less sugar on the meal. Studies show that eating processed sugars increases your blood pressure. If cutting back on sugar seems less possible, eat it with fiber and protein to help slow down the absorption and minimize the effects. Throw away the diet pills. Losing weight lowers the pressure of your blood. However, along with the weight loss program, this should be done in a healthy way instead of taking weight loss pills. Healthy diet and exercise is still the best way to lose weight at the same time lower blood pressure. These 5 diet changes to lower blood pressure could be hard to do at first. If you have the difficulty, you can take these one at a time. You may replace each component of your meal like fruit instead of processed snack each week until you get used to it. Then you can keep adding more until the transition is complete and help you feel better. Our summer pilgrimage to my grandparent's was always a surreal treat. Even before the car stopped we could hear Grandpa's bellowing from his upstairs bedroom. It must have driven the neighbors mad but since he was half-deaf anyway Grandpa had no idea how loud he was... and I don't think anyone ever had the nerve to tell him! Fifty years of smoking had left my grandfather with emphysema as a constant companion in his old age. And his doctor's prescription, in addition to the ever-present oxygen bottle: singing therapy! To a young child it seemed a little bizarre but little did I know how forward-thinking this old, small-town physician of the early 60s really was. Back to the future? Grandpa chose to sing Wagnerian opera and Gregorian chant... maybe being a staunch German Catholic had something to do with it! His opera was terrible but the Gregorian chant was oddly compelling and its therapeutic power was indisputable. It was all quite progressive for the amazing health benefits of song - and Gregorian chant, in particular - are becoming increasingly recognized by medical science.
Grandpa's doctor was relying on the well-established fact that singing promotes respiratory fitness by strengthening the lungs and increasing oxygen levels in the blood. But recent clinical research reveals that the health benefits of singing go much further. Gregorian chant, in particular (for reasons soon to be explained) has been shown to relieve stress, lower blood pressure, reduce anxiety and depression and promote a sense of well- being. It can even enhance performance by increasing levels of certain beneficial hormones. Dr. Alan Watkins, a neuroscientist at Imperial College London, used a 24-hour monitor to track the heart rate and blood pressure of a group of monks throughout their day. The results showed that both the monks' heart rate and blood pressure fell to their lowest point when they chanted. It's all in the breath control - The secret is in the breathing. A therapy called slow breathing has previously developed around related research findings and is used with considerable success to treat high blood pressure, chronic stress and anxiety. Now it seems that slow breathing and singing are natural bedfellows; slow breathing makes use of a short inhale followed by a long, slow exhale - the same breathing pattern promoted by singing. Some forms of singing, like opera, require years of dedicated training and conditioning to achieve extreme ranges of tone. But Gregorian chant has certain features that make it totally unique in music as well as a boon for health. These qualities are its highly regular cadence, simple melody and limited range of tone (called monophony). These features are also what give Gregorian chant its otherworldly beauty and hypnotic power. But more importantly, from a health perspective, it's what makes chant an ideal form of controlled, therapeutic breathing. Up for a sing-a-long? From a practical viewpoint, its regular breathing cadence and "monotonous" nature makes Gregorian chant relatively easy to learn, even if you're tone deaf like my grandfather was! In fact, lessons and groups for singing Gregorian chant are available in many areas and are increasing rapidly in response to its newfound popularity. There are also CDs and home-study programs available on the Internet if you prefer to go it alone. What's more, you can enjoy the unique beauty of Gregorian chant even if you may be totally tone-deaf, don't like singing or if your neighbors are not so timid. In fact, you don't have to sing at all to reduce stress and reap chanting's other health benefits. CDs and mp3s are available that combine a special slow breathing soundtrack with Gregorian chant. The breathing track guides your breathing in just the right pattern while you simply relax to this beautiful and hypnotic form of music. We may not be able to live the relatively stress-free life of a monk but we can easily take advantage of one of their little-known health secrets. My grandfather couldn't live forever but he did very well indeed considering his emphysema. I have no doubt that Gregorian chant (and maybe a little German opera?) gave him years of extra life and pleasure.
