High Blood Pressure - Ideal Body Weight

Maintaining Ideal Body weight is a fundamental step in managing high blood pressure without the use of anti-hypertension medication. If one is overweight by more than a few pounds, then it normally indicates that one is carrying too much body fat and represents a risk factor to health. There is overwhelming medical evidence that suggests being overweight or obese naturally lead to high blood pressure, and increase risks of heart disease (which may lead to heart attacks) or brain attack also known as a stroke. Excess body fat is a challenge to the heart, because due to the extra burden it has to do more work. If one is overweight by say 25 lb., then this is could be regarded as being equivalent to carrying say, a 25lb back pack around, and the extra load makes the hea View the rest of this article