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Lower Blood Pressure Naturally and Lead a Healthier, Happier, Longer Life!

A normal range blood pressure is anything below 120 over 80. Actually, anything over 115/75 is generally believed to put you at higher risk of developing high blood pressure in the future.

Anything in-between, from 121-139 over 81-89, is an intermediary level, often called “pre-hypertensive”. While not immediately life-threatening, higher and higher readings put you at progressively higher risks for stroke, heart attack or heart and kidney failure.

If you have normal range blood pressure, great! You have no problems and should live a long and healthy life. But if you are up in the danger range, you ought to lower your blood pressure level.

At one time in my life I was diagnosed as borderline hypertensive. For the next 15 years I took “beta blocking” pharmaceuticals to control my blood pressure (BP). What finally saved me was that I had bought a home blood pressure testor device and tested my BP each morning before I got out of bed.

I started noticing that certain things I did or did not do seemed to affect my daily BP readings. If I drank alcohol in excess in the evening, the next morning my BP would be higher. If I ate popcorn and drank martinis my BP went up. Red wine with cheese and crackers and it went down.

Gradually, I learned to lower blood pressure naturally. I found foods and a lifestyle that caused my blood pressure to go down. Gradually, I lowered the amount of medication I was taking, keeping my BP at 120/75.

I kept on with this program of lowering blood pressure naturally until finally, I found that I didn’t need the medication at all. That was 9 years ago. I never went back. Today, I still measure my blood pressure in the mornings. My last ten-day moving average of readings is 100.8/60.5 with a pulse rate of 51.0.

I took chances with my health and spent thousands of dollars on prescription drugs before I found out that when you control your blood pressure naturally, you don’t need them!

If you would like to learn how to control your BP naturally, follow the links above.

Disclaimer: This posting is based on information freely available in the popular press and medical journals that deal with hypertension (high blood pressure). Nothing herein is intended to be or should be construed to be any sort of medical advice. For medical advice the reader should consult with his or her physician or other medical specialist.

– Jorge Chavez

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Focuses of Rehabilitation for Optimized Emotional Health

Focus on the Person

 

The focus of treatment should be on the person  and not the process of treatment. There is a continual transfer of the methods by which individuals suffering from mental disorders are treated. Over the past centuries, thanks partially to the drive to create more reliable and effective treatment plans, the majority of mental health professionals failed to concentrate on the process occurring in a patient, the alterations he was undergoing through the treatment and the improvements which were related to the treatment. Instead nowadays, more common point for many practitioners is the method of treatment itself- whether or not one therapy is more beneficial than the other or whether or not a certain treatment could actually work for most patients. 

 

It is a good thing that mental illnesses are viewed now from the sufferer’s points of view rather than subtleties of the treatment or therapy treatment. People have different presentations of a mental disorder. Therefore necessitating individualized forms of rehabilitation treatments that are curtailed for the person’s requirements, unique characteristics such as resiliency, abilities and failings, cultural background and experiences. Psychotherapy is an excellent approach that maintains the assumption that altering the typical behavioral habits of the individual by altering the thought process to an even more balanced mindset, as well as build-up more advantageous behaviors by means of conditioning and practice.

 

MEDICAL ADVICE and any information or materials posted on the web site are intended for general informational purposes only, and should not be construed as medical advice, medical opinion, diagnosis or treatment. Any information posted on the web site is NOT a substitute for medical attention. See your health-care professional for medical advice and treatment.

 

To learn more how psychotherapy can help you achieve balanced mental health please go to www.what-is-psychotherapy.com

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Diagnosing Dyslexia – Dyslexia in Children, Very Different from Dyslexia in Adults

Adult dyslexia affects perhaps 1 in 10 of all adults in the population. Most dyslexics are unaware of their condition and continue to suffer the easily-corrected problems that it causes. They need to be identified, tested and trained to overcome the problems. With proper training dyslexia can be a non-problem.

Today, the great majority of dyslexia cases are identified early amongst school-age children. Dyslexia in children is detected by noting the student’s progress in reading. Any difficulty there leads to dyslexia screening consisting of a free dyslexia test.

Dyslexia screening tests for school-age children are a relatively new thing. Those of us who graduated from elementary school more than 15 years ago will most probably have never been tested. 95% of adult dyslexics are unaware of their condition.

Dyslexics who passed through elementary school 15 years or more ago had a rough time of it. They were treated as a bit dense, slow learners, underachievers. They were put down, denigrated and belittled because of their inabilities to do what others did.

About one in every 10 people has some form of dyslexia, to some degree. This means that millions of adults are suffering needlessly from a dyslexic condition of which they are unaware! Once diagnosed as dyslexic they can quickly learn how to overcome their old problems and do practically anything anyone else can!

The problem in diagnosing dyslexia in adults is twofold: 1. They don’t know that they are or might be dyslexic and 2. Their old school experiences taught them to be embarrassed about their condition and to hide it at all costs. This means that they will have taken jobs, often way below their level of abilities and intelligence, to avoid having to read, write down messages or anything they are uncertain that they can do.

If you know anyone like that, underemployed, never wants to read or especially read aloud, urge them to follow the links above and take a free dyslexia test!

Disclaimer: Nothing in the above explanations is intended to be or represented to be or should be construed to be any form of medical advice. The information herein has been gleaned from medical journals, news articles in the popular press and other freely-available public sources. It is presented here for informational purposes only. For any medical advice the reader is urged to consult with his or her licensed physician or other medical specialist.

By: James Godfrey