How valid are natural ways to lower blood pressure?

August 29th, 2008

Over and over again in the media you can see the same recommendations for natural ways to lower blood pressure. These always include losing weight, exercising, good diet and not smoking or drinking alcohol.

But how valid are these really? The surprising fact is that many of these lifestyle factors have much less relation to high blood pressure than we are lead to believe. A recent major study revealed surprising conclusions: 50% of overweight people and 33% of even obese people have normal blood pressure.

On the other hand, nearly 50% of people with a "healthy" lifestyle can suffer from high blood pressure. There are also many smokers and heavy drinkers with healthy blood pressure and many health obsessives who sometimes drop dead from a heart attack.

Of course, unhealthy habits can be dangerous in other ways but their relation to blood pressure is not completely clear. High blood pressure is a complex condition and up to 95% of cases do not have a clear cause. In this health-obsessed age we tend to blame every health problem we do not understand on lifestyle.

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