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Coffee High Blood Pressure Risk?

Posted on June 2, 2013 by admin

Coffee or actually Caffeine has previously been implicated in an increased risk of high blood pressure, but is this actually true? Recent studies of people consuming 2-3 cups of coffee daily have not confirmed any association with drinking the coffee and an increased blood pressure risk.

There was a 12 year study of 155,000 female nurses who drank daily large amounts of coffee, yet did not show signs of a rise in blood pressure. Previously there were studies done that had already shown statistically insignificant associations between the drinking of coffee and clinical hypertension. The effect of drinking coffee on morbidity and mortality due to its effect on a persons blood pressure is too weak and has not been studied further.

Granted all people are different and may respond to drinking coffee in different ways, but the majority seem to have very few, if any side effects from drinking coffee on a daily basis. If you are a person who already has hypertension, you may want to check with your doctor before consuming coffee on a daily basis. I would also like to point out if you add all sorts of cream and toppings to your coffee, not only will you most likely gain weight, but have a better chance of getting high blood pressure. It really is best to drink your coffee black. Some people love black coffee, some hate it! I was a person who hated black coffee until I forced myself to drink it, now I love black coffee and would never go back.

I was also diagnosed with high blood pressure before I started drinking coffee on a daily basis. I found out my high blood pressure was actually caused my weight training far to hard and frequently. Once I learnt to not over train with weights, my blood pressure went back to normal and continued to stay in the normal range, even after I started drinking 2-3 cups of coffee daily. So there is really nothing to worry about if you are in normal health, sit back and enjoy a cup or two of coffee and enjoy life.

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Common Foods That Contain Bad Trans Fats

Posted on April 21, 2013 by admin

Most people are now aware of bad Trans Fats, a very bad health causing ingredient for prolonging shelf life and taste of certain foods. Trans fat is formed when natural vegetable oil is hardened through a hydrogenation process and is very commonly done to increase food shelf life, but at a big cost to your health.

Many Studies confirm that continued consumption of trans fats as little as one gram per day can increase the bad cholesterol in your body and put you at a far greater risk for heart disease, high blood pressure even may trigger type 2 diabetes. Most of our snack food contain trans fats and could seriously be putting our general health at great risk.

Here is a list of common foods that usually contain trans fats that you should try to avoid eating, to help you stay healthy:

Microwaved popcorn snacks: Popcorn is one of those highly popular snacks we all indulge in and do not suspect it of being fattening or harmful to our health. The fact is most microwaved popcorn does contain trans fats.
Potato chips snacks: Again another very popular snack food and possibly the worst. Even one small bag of potato chips usually contain three to four grams of trans fats which is very high.
Snack Crackers: They look very innocent to most people, but the sad truth is most snack crackers often contain trans fats.
Cereals: Some cereals actually contain trans fats, especially the sweeter varieties. The same goes for many cereal bars that are marketed as health bars, so you must be careful.
Frozen type foods: Most pies, cakes, pizzas, waffles, pastries, are usually containing high amounts of trans fats. We all fall victim to these types of foods as they are fast and easy to serve up.
French fries: Millions of people eat french fries daily perhaps the most popular trans fat loaded food in the world.
Cookies: Most of us love cookies and usually eat at least a few of them at one serving. Just three average cookies can pack in nearly three grams of bad trans fats. Best to avoid the store-bought cookies and just make your own which will be much healthier for you and your family.
Margarine (the hard variety): All hard margarine needs to be hydrogenated which contains trans fats. Use the soft margarine that is not hydrogenated to be on the healthy side.

To better your health, you really should try to avoid eating common foods that contain the bad trans fats, you can look for better foods to replace them as more and more products are starting to offer o trans fats food in place of the original foods, this gives you a healthy option.

Detox Your Body For Health

Posted on March 15, 2013 by admin

To stay healthy we all need to detox or bodies, why not do it in the spring, It is the perfect time to do a body detox. After we’ve been breathing in the bad poor indoor air quality and perhaps gotten less activity and not eating very good all year, it’s now time to get healthy. Detoxifying is the best antidote and can give you increased energy and super health. It also may reduce allergy symptoms, reduce hormonal imbalances, improve your digestion, clear your sinuses, normalize your blood pressure, reduce moods swings, give sharper mental focus, improved sleep patterns, healthier glowing skin, plus much more! Here are great tips to get you started on a healing spring body detox for men’s health and women’s health:

1. Eliminate meat and dairy products for a while to give your body a much needed break. Meat is highly acid-forming and is bad for the body. It can give you a strain on your kidneys and intestines and of course dairy is highly mucus-forming and many people do lack the enzymes to properly digest it.

2. Do not eat it if you cannot pronounce it. Always read the labels on the food selections you choose. Most are full of harmful preservatives, synthetic flavors and other artificial ingredients that usually have long complex names. Don’t buy these type of food products and definitely don’t eat them. Just choose fresh foods that come in Nature’s packaging as fruits and vegetables.

3. Remove fried and high sugar foods from your diet. I probably don’t have to tell you what constitutes “trash foods” fried and sugary foods, processed, prepared and packaged foods all tend to be full of trans fats, sugar and food additives that build up in our bodies and need to be cleaned out.

4. Up Your Vegetables. Try to have vegetables 50% of every meal. You can enjoy a fresh vegetable juice to get your 50%. Add in a large green tossed salad or a plate of steamed veggies and your good to go!

5. Take your daily vitamins. We all need to take a daily multivitamin supplement to keep our health and immune system works good.

6. Try using herbs to give your body a boost of health. Milk thistle is an herb that is a proven liver re-generator and detoxifier. Dandelion herb and uva ursi are well-established kidney health restoring herbs.

7. Use hot baths to cleanse. On its own hot baths are relaxing, but to help the cleansing effects, you just need to add a cup of Epsom salts or baking soda to your bath water. Both of these will alkalize the water to help neutralize acidic toxins. Epsom salts will help your body muscles to relax a stress reliever.

8. Drink at least 8 cups of pure water daily. This helps to flush out all the toxins. For a really great detoxifying drink, add fresh lemon juice to a large glass of water first thing in the morning. Lemons help alkalize your body and contain more than 20 anti-cancer compounds and also help cleanse your liver, kidneys and colon which is always a good thing.

9. Add more daily fiber. You need more fiber in your your diet daily, to boost your cleansing efforts.

10. Exercise two to three times weekly. Exercise will improve your circulation, which brings fresh oxygenated blood to your organs and tissues and helps to speed up body cleansing process, just do not over exercise.

These very easy and simple daily changes to your diet and lifestyle will help you detox your body and put you on the right track to a healthier you!

Natural Ways To Lower High Blood Pressure

Posted on December 22, 2012 by admin

Here are some natural ways you can lower your high blood pressure (hypertension) for all men and women to keep it in the safe zone. High blood pressure is definitely a silent killer, as there may be no detectable signs for a long time that something is going wrong. High blood pressure is usually gone unnoticed for a long time unless your systolic and your diastolic readings are taken often by a doctor. Once you are diagnosed with high blood pressure, the first thing you should do is slow yourself down a little. You should try and relax more frequently and reduce the amount of stress you have daily. Yes, I doing know this can be tough to to, but you must try and do it.

The next area to help reduce your high blood pressure is to stop drinking coffee and replace it with herbal teas such as chamomile tea, peppermint tea, or mint tea as these tea’s help you to relax. You absolutely must reduce your consumption of saturated fats from animal sources as in all red meats, except fish which is recommended to eat. You must also try to avoid consuming hardened vegetable fats such as shortening and margarines and as we all know, try to keep your sodium intake down.

Now to help out even more to lower your high blood pressure and to keep it low, you can add certain supplements and real food sources that are proven to help. See the list below:

Garlic ( can take odourless supplement form in powder or liquid)

Flax oil ( in liquid or capsules)

Salmon oil (eat the cook fish or take in capsule form)

Magnesium (Magnesium Citrate is good )

Potassium rich foods ( bananas, prunes, apples, oranges, raisins, etc or potassium tablets)

Coq10 (100-200 mg daily) Can take higher , but check with your doctor first.

Apple cider vinegar (1-2 tbsn daily) Thins the blood.

Blackstrap molasses (1-2 tbsn daily)

Exercise 3 times a week (light workouts are best as longer walks)

Also, for anyone with high blood pressure it would be a wise decision to take high vitamin C daily, about two to 5 grams as vitamin C helps keep the arteries strong under the high pressure so they do not burst nearly as easily. The one last thing you must not do is Smoke cigarettes etc, as smoking is a major cause of high blood pressure. It is recommended you check with your doctor first before starting any of this advice.

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