New info on how to lower high systolic blood pressure....
Today's Post: Friday, 10-16-2009
Yesterday, HealthDay News posted an article they titled:
“Air pollution appears to hit the obese hardest, causing significant increases in blood pressure, a new study finds.”
The actual article and study was a bit different. The study was a good bit more important than the headline suggested.
Here’s why.:
The researchers found that air pollution increased the systolic blood pressure (the higher reading listed first) and pulse pressure (the difference between the two readings ) in everyone who lived in polluted air.
They did find that both being obese and living in polluted air was worse bad news. It increased the diastolic pressure as well & the overall blood pressure more than it did for people of normal weight/.
To make this a bit easier to follow, here are some examples. (They are examples I made up & NOT from the study.)
Someone who has lived in unpolluted air and is not obese starting with a BP of 128 over 78 moving to an area with polluted air might then have a 143 over 80 BP after a while.
An obese identical twin might well start at 136 over 86 living in unpolluted air but by moving to an area with polluted air might wind up with a BP of 158 over 95.
The other point to make is that someone with moderate high blood pressure who moves from somewhere without pollution to a new location with high air pollution might well go from a level that can be safely brought down with eating right, regular exercise, and the supplements that work to do so -- to a higher level that makes taking drugs to lower their high blood pressure necessary.
For example 153 over 93 while living in clean air might become 168 over 95 when living in an area with polluted air or 175 over 105 in someone who also is obese.
Note that working somewhere with a high and continuous level of second hand smoke or smoking yourself or living with a smoker exposes you to polluted air as if you lived right next to a busy freeway or in an area with horrible smog.
We also know that living in an area with polluted air AND being exposed to tobacco smoke every day more than doubles such effects.
There are several ways to use the information in this study.
Try to live and work in places that have low levels of air pollution if you can.
For most of us, that’s a bit challenging if we don’t already live in a location with low levels of air pollution.
But there are some other things you can do.
Stay away from tobacco smoke. If you smoke, quit even if you have to try six times to get it done. Insist on working at a job that has a no smoking policy for the places their employees work and meet.
Vote for smoking bans in workplaces, restaurants, and bars. And, if you live in a location without such bans, spend all or 95% of your money on eating out at locations that are 100 % nonsmoking or don't eat out at all often.
If you encounter a smoker, try to move away from them or into a location where the wind blows from you towards them rather than the reverse.
If you move, if you possibly can, choose a place to live more that 400 yards from the nearest freeway or busy street even if it’s a bit smaller.
If you possibly can, institute a policy of no smoking in your house or near doors or open windows in your house.
And, if you do live less than 400 yards from the nearest freeway or busy street or in a city with high air pollution, get and use effective, powered, air-filters that run all the time, or all the time you are not there if you need quiet when you are there, in the rooms where you spend the most time.
If you get a chance to vote for higher or much higher taxes on cigarettes and tobacco, do so.
Similarly, if you can vote for increased pollution control in cars &/or industrial sites that now pollute the air by all means do so.
Lastly, if you are seriously overweight or obese, find out how to eat right and exercise enough better than you do now to improve that and lose some of your excess fat.
The good news is that eating right and exercising begin to improve your health and lower your blood pressure right away even before you lose a lot of fat. Even better, if you only lose 5 to 7 % of your current weight by doing so, you get massive improvements in your health even if you started out over 50 pounds overweight or more.
Today's Post: Friday, 10-16-2009
Yesterday, HealthDay News posted an article they titled:
“Air pollution appears to hit the obese hardest, causing significant increases in blood pressure, a new study finds.”
The actual article and study was a bit different. The study was a good bit more important than the headline suggested.
Here’s why.:
The researchers found that air pollution increased the systolic blood pressure (the higher reading listed first) and pulse pressure (the difference between the two readings ) in everyone who lived in polluted air.
They did find that both being obese and living in polluted air was worse bad news. It increased the diastolic pressure as well & the overall blood pressure more than it did for people of normal weight/.
To make this a bit easier to follow, here are some examples. (They are examples I made up & NOT from the study.)
Someone who has lived in unpolluted air and is not obese starting with a BP of 128 over 78 moving to an area with polluted air might then have a 143 over 80 BP after a while.
An obese identical twin might well start at 136 over 86 living in unpolluted air but by moving to an area with polluted air might wind up with a BP of 158 over 95.
The other point to make is that someone with moderate high blood pressure who moves from somewhere without pollution to a new location with high air pollution might well go from a level that can be safely brought down with eating right, regular exercise, and the supplements that work to do so -- to a higher level that makes taking drugs to lower their high blood pressure necessary.
For example 153 over 93 while living in clean air might become 168 over 95 when living in an area with polluted air or 175 over 105 in someone who also is obese.
Note that working somewhere with a high and continuous level of second hand smoke or smoking yourself or living with a smoker exposes you to polluted air as if you lived right next to a busy freeway or in an area with horrible smog.
We also know that living in an area with polluted air AND being exposed to tobacco smoke every day more than doubles such effects.
There are several ways to use the information in this study.
Try to live and work in places that have low levels of air pollution if you can.
For most of us, that’s a bit challenging if we don’t already live in a location with low levels of air pollution.
But there are some other things you can do.
Stay away from tobacco smoke. If you smoke, quit even if you have to try six times to get it done. Insist on working at a job that has a no smoking policy for the places their employees work and meet.
Vote for smoking bans in workplaces, restaurants, and bars. And, if you live in a location without such bans, spend all or 95% of your money on eating out at locations that are 100 % nonsmoking or don't eat out at all often.
If you encounter a smoker, try to move away from them or into a location where the wind blows from you towards them rather than the reverse.
If you move, if you possibly can, choose a place to live more that 400 yards from the nearest freeway or busy street even if it’s a bit smaller.
If you possibly can, institute a policy of no smoking in your house or near doors or open windows in your house.
And, if you do live less than 400 yards from the nearest freeway or busy street or in a city with high air pollution, get and use effective, powered, air-filters that run all the time, or all the time you are not there if you need quiet when you are there, in the rooms where you spend the most time.
If you get a chance to vote for higher or much higher taxes on cigarettes and tobacco, do so.
Similarly, if you can vote for increased pollution control in cars &/or industrial sites that now pollute the air by all means do so.
Lastly, if you are seriously overweight or obese, find out how to eat right and exercise enough better than you do now to improve that and lose some of your excess fat.
The good news is that eating right and exercising begin to improve your health and lower your blood pressure right away even before you lose a lot of fat. Even better, if you only lose 5 to 7 % of your current weight by doing so, you get massive improvements in your health even if you started out over 50 pounds overweight or more.
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