Attitude Check

Yes. Blood pressure, normally the systolic pressure (upper number) rises and falls throughout the day in response to what you’re doing, feeling or thinking. Caffeine, smoking, exercise and stress temporarily increases blood pressure, while meditation and other calming activities such as yoga and pilates often lowers it. In a healthy person blood pressure should follow a certain rhythm, peaking in the morning, slowly declining in the afternoon and evening, fallling even lower in the night and then rising to meet the dawn. Blood pressure that does not follow that pattern could be an early warning sign of cardiovascular disease. This is why it is important for people to monitor the blood pressure regularly to take several readings a day at the same times.

Blood Pressure Ranges

The normal blood pressure range of persons aged 20 – 40 years is 120_{mm Hg} systolic pressure and 80_{mm Hg} diastolic pressure (120/80_{mm Hg}). Anyone registering above this range is classed as having high blood pressure. See the charts below.

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“The Culprit and The Cure” is a pleasure to read and is full of useful information. This book is written with straight forward common sense, intelligence, and a touch of humor. It is a great book to add to your health and fitness library.

In the past decade the amount of scientific information available on the importance of regular physical activity and good nutrition has grown dramatically. Currently, there is a huge gap between what is known scientifically about healthy living and what most citizens of the U.S. and other Westernized countries actually do. Only 20% of Americans have a good diet and most fail to get enough physical activity to get the benefits.

According to the author some disease that take a lifetime to develop and ultimately end in death can be prevented.  These include heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and others.

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Ladies are you a victim of weight gain after tying the knot? A recent study found that the body mass index of married women increases 2 percent above what they would normally gain as they aged (married men increase their BMI by 1.5 percent). In another study, researchers found that married couples were three times more likely to be obese (co-habituating couples double their risk and singles are the least likely to tip the scales).  These are true facts but do not panic, I can help. Try these tips.  If they don’t work you’re on your own.  Just kidding!  You may be one out of many who can’t seem to find the right solution to weight loss.  There are many so you will have to keep trying till you find one that will work for you. When you do,  stick with it.  Try these first.

1.        Stop Eating Like Your Husband

Men are from Mars and they often eat like Martians (as if I knew how Martians ate). Along with your man come his favorite snacks. Chips, beer and other foods that women are less favorable to women.  Thing is, men are generally bigger and have more muscle mass, so they can consume and more efficiently burn calories. 

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My strong history

I grew up knowing my dad as a diabetic person and as a young lad I had zero knowledge of what the disease was or how it affected people and change lives.  I grew up in a place rich in history, from the foods we eat to the lifestyle we lived.  As I got older I became more aware of what diabetes was and that it runs deep in my family.  My dad has it, my sister was recently diagnosed, my brother was tested to be pre-diabetic, two uncles of mine died from it, a cousing who is also diagnosed positive. There could be more but that’s much as I can recall. As for myself, I too have been diagnosed as a pre-diabetic person.

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The national obesity epidemic problem keeps getting bigger and the usual suspects are people, food and lack of physical activity. According to a new CDC report obesity affects every state in the nation and not one of them have met the goal to lower the obesity level by 15%.  A goal set by the Healthy People 2010 program. In 2009, about 2.4 million more adults were obese than in 2007. In every state more than 15% of adults were obese. In 9 states more than 30% adults were obese. 

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