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LOWER CHOLESTEROL AND BLOOD PRESSURE
I know this won't apply to our entire audience, but I thought this was important enough to share as Today's Tip.
Do you have high cholesterol or high blood pressure? If you are at all overweight, losing as little as 5 pounds can reduce your cholesterol levels. Shedding 10 pounds will likely lower your blood pressure, too. How cool is that? Additionally, studies repeatedly reveal that if you are overweight, losing 5% to 7% of your weight through diet and exercise may delay and possibly prevent diabetes.
The safest way to reach your goal is to aim to lose 1 to 2 pounds per week. Studies show that losing weight slowly is the safest way to lose and that you are more likely to keep it off than you would if you lose a lot of weight in a short period of time. Small changes in lifestyle can make all the difference!
Source: USA Weekend, July 6-8, 2012 issue. Their source: "The Doctors."
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Surprisingly they put me on cholesterol drug a few years back. I've since quit taking it. I'll probably be put on the blood pressure regimen next time a doc sees me. Which is why I avoid them like the plague. I know you're right Pam and good tips!
This tip is a coincidence. Yesterday I got my results back from last weeks tests. My cholesterol has gone down to 165 from 195 last April, BP is normal, and I lost 10 lbs. I'm on Lipitor and a blood pressure pill, have been for years. Many many many years ago (30) my BP was really high @185/90 and my cholesterol was 445. One day I collapsed and was taken by ambulance to the ER, stabilized, and then to a cardiac doctor who started me on the BP and cholesterol treatments. Had to have angioplasty and later a stent. Artery was 90% clogged. Saved my life.
Hope others here take care of themselves and get checked up regularly.
I'm 62, and I've never had my cholestoral level tested. Haven't a clue! Worrying has a way of reducing your immune system, and this natural worry-wart has enough to worry about!
I did have a tooth pulled a couple months ago, and after a year or 2, they did my BP. They said it was high, but then, they admitted, just going into a dental clinic will do that! I know, I know, I test BP's at my work everyday! Emotions can play a big part in it!
When you have your BP done is very important to ward off fear, worries! I get a kick out of these nurses and aides at work, who should know better about the factors that can temporarily raise your BP, and if they've had a very stressful time, they check their BP and go into a panic! If I did that, everytime I was stressed out at work, I'd panic, too! Perhaps have a heart attack!
Losing weight, that's a definite, will help lower your BP!
Thank God I've never had to deal with high cholesterol. Never forget the pseudo being totally PO'd when his came back high and he was eating all the right foods; I'm a junk food junkie and love fried foods and my levels were within the normal range
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If I did that, everytime I was stressed out at work, I'd panic, too! Perhaps have a heart attack!
