High blood pressure

Too much booze or expresso coffees not good

See your Doctor

Swimming,walking good ,photo finishes not so good

they reckon smoking can help you lose weight?

don't know if that's true or of any use to you bigmo.

anyway good luck

People who stop smoking usually pile on the weight because when they get the crave for a ciggie, they eat instead.

Under the doctor for the condition just didn't realise how much salt is in everything.Have made changes to my diet and got it down but need to do more.

The worst things for blood pressure are , inactivity, high fat and salt diet,smoking , stress

things bad for blood pressure include betting on horses, reading chit chat, sex, drinking, salty foods, prawns.

Best to take drastic action IMO and stop the prawns.

Eat a little less, exercise a little more, stop smoking and avoid saturated fats and sugar.
Alcohol in moderation is good for you and your blood pressure.

I have been monitoring my figures this past week and they are all about the 116/58/52 area.
The lowest was 108/62/45 and was an anomaly. I had a drink every day. I use coarse sea salt , eat ham and bacon regularly.
Cholesterol is 3.1 , thanks to statins , but when I make an effort I get it down to 2.8.

My guess is that you have plenty of sugar in your diet.

I've got the home monitor kit and measure it every day. I'm under a specialist as it went to 158/80 since then through walking and better diet it has come down to the 120's - to 130.

Last few days it shot back back to 140 slowly coming down again. I don't have sugar as I'm type 2.

They used to say 140- 90 was ok then they changed it to 120-80 about 20 years ago

Most of your tinned gear has sugar and salt in it I think tinned soups are one of the highest for salt, best thing to do with them is have them but cut them down , tbh a lot of it is moderation in most things, problem can be that somebodys idea of moderation might not be correct

That link takes you to possibly the most annoying man on the internet.
I watched two videos and cant decide what it is hes attempting to sell?
Plants?

On the issue of canned tomatoes particulally;

I've just looked at two types I have in the cupboard, cesso and Napolina.
On salt cesso is pretty bad tbh, 0.7g ish per 1/4 can (I hate it when they do that) so 1 can is around 1/3 of the recommended daily salt limit.
Whereas Napolina was something like 0.2g for half a can so much better, but from recollection it's pricier.

Considering canned tomatoes have such a wide variety of uses in home cooking and that it's practically impossible to make stuff without adding something that has salt etc in I think the more expensive tinned tomatoes to be pretty good.
I use two cans in a massive cook up of all sorts and it lasts most of the week so all in all its a solid performer IMO.

You could go that extra mile and make your own purée ofc, it's not that hard, just buy loads of big tomatoes boil them down, de skin in cold water and then sieve.

Well I don't know what they were suggesting but the general advice is not to consume more than 6g of salt a day.
If you factor in cooking with tinned tomatoes making something that serves as a major food intake then I see them as not being particulally bad but then that's just me looking at the data given, if there's something else that they arnt telling us then that might be it but I suspect they are talking about cheap tinned tomatoes on toast.
I don't think cesso is exactly cheap either but has a much greater salt content than Napolina, the supermarket brands probs have even higher amounts, and if you consider tomatoes on toast just to be one meal of one tin of tomatoes that would mean it a very significant portion of the daily salt intake.

What I'm suggesting is use quality tinned tomatoes in cooking up batch loads of curry, or bolognase etc from scratch, that's the best way all round and the tinned tomatoes are spread over numerous meals.

Got mine up to 250 as the upper figure once...

hectoratoratora    07 Oct 16 12:10 
First thing you want to do is get a decent home BP testing kit and do it yourself when you are feeling relaxed.You will not believe the dodgy readings at the quacks because people are stressed.I had mine done by the quack and the best reading was 179/120. Went back a week later and used the self service tester and averaged 130/80 and still wasnt totally relaxed.Plenty of people are on tablets for LIFE because of iffy results.



My friend suffers from this "white coat hypertension", she can feel it going up once she is in the room. Very high readings on Monday this week. The practice guy said hang around and chat and we'll do it again in 10 mins. Not as bad but still high. Very odd thing and agree with hector, some healthy people must end up on meds unnecessarily.

What tabs you on dog amolodopine ?

Amolodopine, candersatan ,bendrofumazide bobbins the lot of em