Doctor And Life Saving Advice

There are three basic types of high blood pressure or by

1. Essential or primary hypertension – Nine out of ten people with high blood pressure have this type and the exact cause is unknown, although it involves many risk factors.
2. Secondary hypertension – About 10 per cent of people have high blood pressure due to another disease, such as kidney­ disease, rare endocrine disorders or heart valve problems, or in rare cases it is due to interactions with a drug.
3. Malignant hypertension – In this rare type, blood pressure can soar to dangerous levels, requiring urgent hospital treatment. Read the rest of this entry »

Keeping our lives happy and harmonious can very often be difficult and studies have shown that positive thinking can help us to deal more effectively with everyday stress as well as having a beneficial effect on our emotional health. Research has also demonstrated that a person’s emotional well being plays an important part in his or her physical health.

It can be enormously beneficial, psychologically and physically, to make an effort to integrate positive thinking into every aspect of your life. You will reap the health rewards if you fallow a few basic guidelines:

• Consider that it is often much easier to be negative and critical so make an effort to be positive and encouraging to yourself and to others.
• Keep crises in perspective and if possible try to see them simply as problems that you can solve.
• Focus on the good things in your life.
• When faced with a situation that you find stressful, try calming strategies such as raking deep breaths or visualizing tranquil scenes or images.

Healthy habits are best started in childhood because most bad habits are picked up then, too. If you have children, then one of the most effective ways to influence them is to lead by example – it won’t do any harm to have a few hours in front of the television if it is balanced by something more active earlier or later in the day. But bad habits can soon become part of your child’s normal life and changing these habits will become much more difficult later on.

Education on health-damaging habits, such as smoking, can also begin at a very early age and probably has the best effect when your children can see plainly that you yourself, for example, don’t smoke. Read the rest of this entry »

A HEALTH LIFESTYLE

Your health is something that you can influence – for better or for worse – through the lifestyle choices you make every day. People today are generally^, much better in formed than their parents’ generation and the expectations of what medicine can do is also higher. It is possible to make small changes to the way you live which will lead to a healthier and longer life. Simple, realistic changes are by far the best – drastic measures usually prove difficult to sustain and tend to be followed for only a short time Healthy choices are those that you make for life.

In the 21st century more people are living for longer – in fact, most of the world’s population is living 20 years longer than their parents. What’s the secret? Today, we have access to better food, sanitation and health care services. Read the rest of this entry »

Persistently high blood pressure, also known as hypertension, can damage arteries and body organs, including the kidneys and the heart. This insidious disease is a major factor for heart disease, heart attacks and strokes. In fact, high blood pressure increases the risk of stroke six times and the risk of a heart attack threefold. Health education and screening program aid the early detection of high blood pressure and, together with improved treatments, have helped to significantly reduce the incidence of strokes and heart attacks

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