Showing posts with label High. Show all posts
Showing posts with label High. Show all posts

Saturday, March 18, 2017

How Lifestyle Menopause And Slow Metabolism Cause High Body Calories


By Toni Vang


Different facts and myths come as to why people gain weight and other do not. Menopause and slow metabolism stages such as during and after pregnancy are some of biologically proved period that women tend to escalate their weights. Men are not left behind in this healthy concerning condition but Statistics show that more females than men are worse hit.

In ancient times there were obsessed people but this looks to have escalated to a whole new level in the current world. This heath detrimental condition doesn't shy from neither the age, sex nor social class and this cross cutting action means that majority of us are leaving contrary to healthy lifestyle. Initially the rich looked more affected creating a stereotype that calories problem was exclusively for them an ideology that was discarded later for being wrong.

Diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, heart complications are more recorded from people with abnormal body mass index due to overweight. This conditions are fatal and increase the mortality rate especially in old age reducing the life expectancy worldwide. Funds have been pumped in clinical research and trials in the quest to curb this unfitness for the sake of the current and future generation.

In humans, the female species feels more heat from plus body size. This goes to the length of affecting their egos. From the young children to the working class, those who find themselves with more than average pounds are looked down upon and if they don't get support of guidance some opt to end their lives. This have seen this group of plus size tailing in academics and report poor performance in their jobs as they feel dejected.

Despite this being such a nightmare to most ladies there are solutions or precautions that one is supposed to observe if not affected. Cutting down of the food intake will cause a significant slowdown to the body metabolism and consequently burn some calories. This however doesn't entail starvation a misdeed that majority of people do. It means that one should take proportional healthy foods which are healthy, balanced in diet e. G. Incorporation of fruits, fibers, vegetables, carbohydrates etc.

It's of great importance to check the credibility of information source on weight reduction, be it from the internet or professionals. This will shield you from misleading advice such as one should consistently have straining exercise, totally avoid carbohydrates and fats, and starvation. This will ensure that your body remain healthy in the aspect of immune strength and shed of those extra distressing pounds.

In most women the biology seems to be harsh as during the midlife, profound transition happens making it quit a task to maintains or acquire that desired weight. The advised exercise and strict diet does prove good enough to churn that extra pound and that flags to turn the distress to the professionals. Of course most of them chose the easiest option, quitting, other turn to the internet and get fed by ideologies and concepts from quake doctors and the result is devastating.

Healthy bodies are just within us indiscriminate of you financial situation, age or gender and all it takes is rising to the occasion and act in accordance to doctor's advice and be aware of what we put in the meal plate. Despite the nature not allowing everyone to have those model size bodies one can dodge the associate diseases to live a life full of energy and that inner beauty that one feel radiate to the outside.




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Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Hypertension High Blood Pressure and Yoga An Overview


by Baxter
Complexity in Nature by Brad Gibson
On these hallowed pages, we have previously addressed several conditions that involve our cardiovascular system (heart and blood vessels), such as arrhythmias, strokes, hypotension and hypertension (also referred to as high blood pressure). We even have at least six posts that at least mention hypertension (HTN). However, due to the large percentage of adults who will develop hypertension over the course of their lifetimes, I thought it worth revisiting. According to the NIH, in 1999-2002, 28.6% of the U.S. population had hypertension. And this number seems to be on the rise. Plus, there is yet another study that demonstrates yoga’s beneficial effect on lowering blood pressure in those with mild to moderate hypertension! (For background information about what blood pressure is, see So, what is blood pressure, anyway?)

Why all the hype about hypertension (high blood pressure), anyway? Well, if you have hypertension, you are at an increased risk of developing other more serious health problems, including heart attacks, strokes, congestive heart failure, rupture of your aorta (your largest blood vessel), chronic kidney disease, blockages in your leg's blood vessels, and  vision problems.

Some people develop hypertension secondary to the presence of some other health condition that leads to high blood pressure, such as chronic kidney disease (hey, wasn’t that just mentioned?!), diseases of the adrenal and parathyroid glands (part of our endocrine system), pregnancy, and few very common medications, such as certain cold medications and birth control pills.

And some people are at a higher risk of developing hypertension, if any of the following factors are present for you:
  • obesity
  • diabetes
  • smoking 
  • chronic stress and anxiety
  • excessive use of alcohol
  • excessive use of salt
  • family history of hypertension 
  • African American ancestry
Part of the frustration for people who are diagnosed with hypertension is that they often don’t have any really noticeable symptoms. I can’t tell you how many times I diagnosed a patient in my family practice with high blood pressure when they came in for a routine annual exam with no real complaints, or were in the office for some unrelated complaint, like a cold or headaches. This is why HTN is often referred to as the “silent killer,” as you may not know you have it until one of its complications like stroke or heart attack strike you.

It’s been known now for at least 40 years that yoga practices can help lower blood pressure in people with HTN, starting back in the 60s and 70s with the work of Herbert Benson, MD, a cardiologist who used a particular kind of yogic meditation popular at the time (TM or transcendental meditation) to help lower the blood pressure in his patients who were not responding as expected to the newest medications of that era. Since then, other studies have shown similar results, including the newest study from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, still in progress, which is following 120 patients with mild to moderate elevations in their blood pressure. Already, with 58 people completing the study so far, there is small but significant decreases in blood pressure readings in the yoga group. This could be of greatest importance to patients who are labeled with “pre-hypertension,” where the blood pressure readings fall between 120/80 and 140/90.  This group of people is at much higher risk of going on to develop full HTN and is at higher risk than the general population of serious situations such as stroke and heart attack. However, if treated with yoga, they could drop their numbers low enough to avoid the need for medications to do the job.  In previous posts, Nina and Shari have talked about kinds of asana practices that have been shown to lower blood pressure, such as forward bends and certain inversions, as well as the effect on the baroreceptors that monitor and influence blood pressure moment by moment.  See Blood Pressure: Talking About Baroreceptors and Yoga and Just in Time for the Holidays: Inverted Poses.

As to how you might incorporate yoga practices into your efforts to lower your own rising blood pressure, you would likely want to add it to a broader approach to treatment, instead of substituting yoga for medications, for instance. Usually, a combination of aerobic activity, dietary changes, appropriate salt restriction, stopping tobacco use, lowering stress, and achieving an optimal body weight are the first line actions recommended when you are diagnosed with HTN. As we have shown before, yoga can help with many of those goals, such as weight management and stress, as well as improving will power, which could help with establishing all of those changes suggested from your usual dietary and lifestyle habits. But, independent of that, as this newest study again points out, yoga helps lower blood pressure on its own. It can do it via a balanced asana practice, via meditation practices and via breathing techniques. It is, of course, frustrating for those of us familiar with this data, that mainstream medicine has not embraced this cost-effective modality to any significant degree. If it were a pill, I suppose, it would be a no-brainer. 

And for those interested in developing a home practice for hypertension, due to the multiple factors that could influence your unique situation, I highly recommend you work one-on-one with an experienced yoga instructor to create the optimal practice for you. Yoga for high blood pressure? You bet!  

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