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Diabetes Damage
83. High BP or hypertension is very common in people with diabetes. It affects around half of these people and may even be present before the diabetes has been diagnosed. In all people with diabetes, if high BP is not controlled properly, the chances of having a heart attack, a stroke or problems with eyes or kidney damage are much greater. The message from the above is very clear that high BP and diabetes are twins. More often than not they come together, one should be extremely careful and should take the necessary precautions.
Pregnancy Complications
84. High blood pressure can lead to complications in 5-10% of all pregnancies.
CURING HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE (HYPERTENSION)
WITH NATURO-FOOD THERAPY
Introduction
85. Hypertension is a frightening disease that can seriously damage your cardiovascular system, trigger a stroke, damage the kidneys and eyes, or cause various other potentially serious problems, yet produces no symptoms, no warning bells, or flashing red lights to alert you of its existence. That is why high BP or hypertension is called the “silent killer”. It can go unnoticed for years, quietly doing irreversible damage to your vital organs long before you find out and then it may be too late!
86. High BP can occur in adults as well as children, but it is more common amongst middle-aged and elderly people, obese people, heavy drinkers, smokers, persons with sedentary lifestyle and wrong eating habits, and women taking birth control pills.
87. When hypertension persists without treatment, the heart must work harder to pump enough blood and oxygen to the body’s organs and tissues. When the heart is overworked for extended periods of time, the heart tends to enlarge and weaken. Arteries also suffer from elevated BP, becoming scarred and narrow, hardened and less elastic over time.
88. The modern medical treatment of high BP is highly arbitrary as it brings down the pressure by drugs without making any effort to remove the underlying causes. Drugs may temporarily reduce BP, but they do not cure the condition or remove the causes and are harmful in the long term. All drugs for hypertension, without exception, are toxic and have distressing side-effects. Drugs given to treat hypertension either reduce cardiac output, reduce peripheral resistance or are diuretic in action to reduce total blood volume. The common approach is to begin with very mild drugs and increase the dose as required, or change to more powerful drugs when the milder ones are no longer effective. An important factor to understand here is that in most cases the progression from mild hypertensive drugs having mild side-effects to stronger drugs having significant side-effects is the rule, rather than the exception.
