PREVENTION OF HYPERTENSION
Prevention of Hypertension. It is first important to note that it is almost impossible to prevent what you do not know about. To prevent a monster from entering your house for example, you have to know its strategies and which route it enters people's houses, either by the window, roof, wall or by the door. In a lighter mood, I am trying to say that you need a handful of knowledge of whatever you want to do away with. So let's start with the definition; What is hypertension? It is the force in the blood vessels the heart needs to overcome to pump blood through the body. It can be likened to increased pressure in pipes of water making the pump work harder and harder to get water to the site it is needed. The pipes are blood vessels while the pump is the heart. It's that simple. Hypertension is quite common these days, among both young and old alike. I can boldly guess that 4 out of every 10 people on the street are hypertensive, well that's just a hypothesis. Hypert...