A healthy life is an important requirement of the physical and psychological conditions that allow a person to live more productive. It is necessary for efforts to create awareness of healthy living, prevention and cure of disease, and treatment is carried out in accordance with the recommendation of professional health workers. This adult degenerative diseases which are prevalent in the community and have a fairly high mortality rate and affects a person's quality of life and productivity of one of them is hypertension.
A person may experience an increase in blood pressure that is even far from normal. It is commonly known risk factors, such factors as gender, age, and genetics is that can not be changed or controlled. While the factors that can be changed or controlled is a healthy lifestyle that includes a healthy diet, habits of smoking, drinking alcohol, do not want to exercise, overweight and stress. This means that people with hypertension would not want to abandon his old style and adjust to a new lifestyle to keep his blood pressure remained normal.
In addition to a healthy diet, to control and prevent hypertension also have to undergo a healthy lifestyle, this is very important because a healthy lifestyle will make us healthy overall by, doing regular exercise, quitting smoking also contribute to reducing hypertension, and controlling the pattern of overall health, including controlling cholesterol levels, blood sugar levels, weight and trigger other diseases.
Today's lifestyles lead to prolonged stress. These conditions lead to various diseases such as headaches, insomnia, ulcers, heart disease and hypertension. When a person feels depressed, her body releases adrenaline and cortisone, causing blood pressure to rise. When this condition is protracted, blood pressure will remain high. Modern lifestyle tends to make reductions in physical activity (exercise), high alcohol consumption, drinking coffee and smoking. All behavior is a precursor to high blood pressure.
Lifestyle changes that can be done is to manage your diet, exercise regularly, and avoid the consumption of alcohol or cigarettes. As for some kind of diet, the low-salt diet, a diet low in cholesterol and fat are limited, high-fiber diet, and dietary calories. A diet that could be applicable adjusted to the conditions of hypertension. By regulating the right foods, the blood pressure may drop more quickly.
Blood pressure is also affected by physical activity, lifestyle inactive (sedentary) can trigger the occurrence of hypertension for people who have sensitivities derived. Less effect on the activity of the working heart beat faster and their heart muscle has to work harder at each contraction, the harder and often heart has to pump the greater the force that urges the arteries.
The prevalence of hypertension in many countries is currently increasing in line with the change in lifestyle which was originally a traditional to a modern lifestyle that is detrimental to health, such as smoking, eating a lot of foods high in calories and salt, obesity (overweight), lack of physical activity (exercise), alcohol, and eating foods that are high in fat (especially saturated fat) and cholesterol, and behaviors that are likely to cause psychosocial stress is also a lifestyle that is detrimental to health.
