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Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a silent killer. It places tremendous stress on the arteries and overworks the heart with each beat. Hypertension may progress for years without symptoms, slowly chipping away at the blood vessels, heart, and kidneys. And it eventually takes its toll – high blood pressure is the major underlying cause of heart attacks and strokes. Conventional treatment is sometimes worse than the disease, as patients with hypertension are often overmedicated with prescription drugs that have unpleasant side effects. Even if these drugs do lower blood pressure, they may significantly decrease quality of life and increase the risk of other health problems, while doing little to prevent cardiovascular complications.
Though many doctors still define hypertension as “causeless” or of “unknown origin,” don’t buy it. Extensive medical research makes it perfectly clear that unhealthy living is the primary cause of hypertension. And while it’s true that age, race, and genetic and environmental factors can put you at increased risk, your daily habits do far more to determine whether or not you will develop this condition. This is great news, for it means that preventing and reversing hypertension are within your control.
It is important for you to know that 90 to 95 percent of all hypertension cases can be treated. And an estimated 80 percent of patients with high blood pressure have what is classified as mild to moderate hypertension, which can often be managed through diet, nutritional supplementation, exercise, and stress management. By taking full responsibility for your health and making a few changes in the things you do every day, you can turn you health – and your life – around.
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Unfortunately, not even breast milk is immune from a toxic environment. Low doses of environmental toxins are fat-soluble and are stored in fatty tissue, such as breast tissue. Mother’s milk contains 3 percent fat. The chemicals stored in mother’s fat are not released in significant amounts except during breast-feeding. Breast-feeding lessens the mother’s body burden of toxic chemicals. A six month old breast-fed baby gets more than 10 percent of the cumulative body burden of chemicals up until the age of twenty and receives five times the allowable daily limit of PCBs set by international health standards for a 150 pound adult.7 A woman passes half of her lifetime accumulation of dioxins and PCBs onto her child when she nurses for just six months.
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