1. Watch your waistline. Obesity, which is endemic in the United States is a leading cause of not only high blood pressure but diabetes as well. Losing weight, even as little as ten pounds, can have a significant impact on your blood pressure and, if you’re on medication, can allow that medication to work more efficiently meaning your dosage may be reduced.

1. Exercise – You don’t have to be a health Nazi. The Mayo Clinic says that even 10 minutes of light aerobic exercise like walking can be beneficial. However, to get the best results 30 to 45 minutes daily is recommended. Exercise is the fastest way to naturally reduce your blood pressure. Exercise also allows you to burn off the chemicals in your bloodstream that are the result of stress giving you an additional benefit.

1. Diet and salt consumption. Americans love fatty foods which is why they suffer way more heart disease than Mediterranean or Asian populations. Fast food joints are easy to spot as fat bombs but regular restaurants with “healthy” foods can turn out to be salt mines as well.

1. Watch the booze. A little alcohol, 1 drink per day for women and 2 for men, can actually be beneficial. But any benefit is forfeited if you drink more. People who don’t drink through the week and then go on binges on the weekend are placing themselves at risk. You can’t “accumulate points” for days that you don’t drink.

1. Get support from family and friends. Changes in lifestyle are not easy and you have to have an iron will if you attempt to do it without the help of others. Talk it up with your family and explain what you are doing and why. Having the support of family and friends can make the task easier than going it alone.

The formation of plaque in the arteries and other blood vessels is yet another contributor to high blood pressure and hypertension. Plaque buildup reduces the diameter of the blood vessel which in turn increases pressure.
This plaque is caused by an increased oxidation rate brought on by runaway numbers of free radicals found in persons with hypertension. Most people will say that the plaque is the result of the fats and cholesterol consumed and they would be right in the sense if you didn’t consume them you’d have less plaque. But the actual formation of plaque is the work of free radicals.
We need free radicals in our body.
We just don’t need the number that typically appears with high BP. When plaque becomes a major issue, like a blockage, the most common approach to repair it is surgery. However, there is another way.
But we don’t need that many. A natural removal strategy.
Plaque build up, like most of the symptoms of high blood pressure, is something we are not aware of until it becomes a major problem. It takes years for the plaque to develop, and conversely, it can take years to reverse it if you chose to do so naturally.
Free radicals can be reduced by increasing the amount of antioxidants in the blood stream. Free radicals are essentially orphaned electrons looking for a new home. At the molecular level that means a free radical can join a cell replacing one of the cell’s own electrons. This can lead to the mutation or death of the cell. This mutation or oxidation is what allows the cell to stick to the side of the blood vessel wall.
Antioxidants give the free radicals what they want.
They will absorb the electron but will not mutate in the process. The antioxidants are then passed from the body taking the free radical with them.
So where do we get these little miracles. Well we can get them from our food. Antioxidants and systemic enzymes, another great help in breaking up plaque, are abundant in broccoli and broccoli like vegetables. Antioxidants can be found in high concentrations in almost any bright colored berry like blue berries or black berries.
Knowing which foods to eat accomplishes two things.
It provides the ingredients for a reversal of plaque, and it’s replacing the bad foods that are loaded with the cholesterol that caused the problem in the first place.
If you want to avoid the possibility of surgery in your future, start getting educated today and get your daily dose of “medicine” from the grocers and not the pharmacist’s
Just imagine knowing without a doubt exactly what will and won’t have a positive effect on your blood pressure. No guessing. No worry. No debate. You can find out exactly what you need to know about plaque buildup by visiting http://MyNaturalCures.info right now! This link takes you to a report that deals with treating hypertension naturally and it is not free. It is however effective. Of the 183 copies that have been purchased through this blog in the last year, only one has been returned for a refund. 

RachelW