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sud5nala said:

Potassium rich foods: another one is yogurt.

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Bluetit1802 said:

Yes, she would, because they contain fat! The NHS wants us all to eat low fat and plenty of carbs.
Did you ask her why? Perhaps you should next time you see her.

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sud5nala said:

In a nutshell: how the high carb low fat prescription fell from grace. A major public health concern was with cardiovascular disease (which is more prevalent than diabetes). From the 1950's onward, it was thought that fats were to blame (saturated fats worst of all). This belief was based on junk science, especially on lack of knowledge of how arteries get diseased. People need to eat so many calories a day, and if doctors are having us minimize fat intake, how will we make up the calories? This is the reason for the high carb era. (Especially since starches and sugars have a lot fewer calories per gram than fats do.) Eventually, scientific knowledge accumulated to show that carbs were actually promoting overweight, diabetes, and CV disease. Regarding low carb high fat, look up British diabetes specialists, physicians David Unwin and Roy Taylor (Univ. of Newcastle). Dr. Unwin is online and in the news.

You may have heard that "trans fats" have been progressively banned in Europe. What's with trans fats? Since saturated fats were thought to be toxic, then monounsaturated ones are preferable, then polyunsaturated ones must be even better! Trans fats are a kind of polys. A generation ago, there was a propaganda offensive for polys and trans. Polys were found to be too chemically reactive in the body, and trans rarely occur in our foods, so they are a spanner in the works.

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Galja said:

I take my BP often with my own little machine. I got one that records irregular heart beats and am pretty glad I haven't seen many of those. My machine inflates the cuff or I can push a button and have it inflate sooner

Here is how I was told to do it.

1. Get a comfy chair with a back to sit in near a table.

2. Put your left arm out at the level of your heart on the table with your palm facing up. If the table is the wrong height, use a pillow on the table or choose another flat surface.

3. Find the little mark on the cuff and make sure it aligns with the middle of the crook of your arm stretched out.

4. You should be sitting up, legs uncrossed, back against the back of the chair, feet on the floor

5. Wait five minutes after getting settled. put something to read flat next to the machine

6. Hit start and wait till it inflates itself.

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If the reading is still high, test yourself at one minute intervals to see how your BP goes down and what your purse is.

Do three to five readings as these readings show your heart's resilience

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Periodically, stand up with the cuff still on and rest your arm at heart level while standing up on something

You will be looking at the difference between sitting and quick standing so hit go immediately while standing

(Periodically, take a few BPs while lying down totally relaxed

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Keep all this stuff in a notebook

If you are away from wherever yu take your own personal pressures and someone else takes your pressures, get a copy and paste them in your notebook

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Bring notebook to next appointment with GP or cardiologist

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Just getting in this habit can lower your BPs because it can be a kind of biofeedback



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