Healthy Living

HYPERTENSION(HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE )

Hypertension also known as silent killer is a persistent elevation of the blood pressure above normal values.

CAUSES
* Smoking
* Overweight/ obesity
* lack of physical activity
* Excess salt in diet
* Too much alcohol consumption
* intake of fatty foods
* Stress

RISK FACTORS
*Age
*Existing health conditions Eg diabetes
*Sedentary lifestyle
*S*x: men has higher risk of developing high blood pressure than women.

SYMPTOMS
1.Pains at the back of the neck
2. Sleeplessness
3. Excessive sweating
4. Vision problem
5. Severe headache
Most times there are no symptoms for high blood pressure.

Normal blood pressure is 120mmhg/80mmhg any thing above is high Bp and below is low bp which is more dangerous.
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DO YOU HAVE ENOUGH ZINC?

This mineral is quite possibly the main supplements for human wellbeing. It is fundamental for more than 200 compound responses in the body and effective working of the body.

People who have incessant colds,hacks and untimely turning gray of hair are regularly ailing in zinc.

Without zinc, our feeling of taste, smell and craving diminishes. Men, specifically those with functioning sexual coexistence, ought to routinely screen their zinc level because s***m contains an enormous amount of zinc, which is used in its creation and lost during discharge, so it should be renewed.

Zinc is not formed by the body it has to be taken in diets day by day. The suggested recompense for zinc is 11mg for men and 8mg for women.

Zinc deficiency: Skin breakage, diabetes.

Foods such as mushrooms, broccoli, spinach, oats, hamburger, crab, lobsters, sheepmeat are rich in zinc.