Lifestyle interventions for the treatment of hypertensive patients

  Hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes (hyperglycemia), high uric acid and other “high” are related to lifestyle, a healthy lifestyle is very important for the treatment and prognosis of these diseases, the so-called healthy lifestyle includes several aspects, one is diet, should eat regularly, balanced structure. Because after the reform and opening up, people’s living standards have greatly improved compared with the previous, from the human appetite taste delicious are high protein, high fat, high purine, high sugar, high salt food, there is a saying “oil and salt out of good food”, and before these foods are scarce, then eat a meal of meat and white rice is very difficult. Easy, often can eat these things people will be much stronger, it is difficult to see now these “high” disease, but now for our body, eat too much delicious, we should go back some, appropriate to eat some more “not delicious “, radish, cabbage, coarse grains, etc., so as to achieve a balanced nutritional intake. For hypertensive patients, low salt, low fat, low protein, high potassium (vegetables and fruits contain high potassium) is conducive to blood pressure control, in addition, control the total calorie intake of food is also very important, vegetables, fruits, coarse grains, etc. in now we say “very good”, but there should be a degree, a large intake of more than the body needs will also become “Poison”, Chinese medicine believes that “deficiency is deficient, too much is obscene”, obscene is evil, is poison, so nothing is absolutely good and absolutely bad, so I am talking about the balance, according to the different times to seek a different state of balance. The second is the regulation of the emotions, Chinese medicine believes that the seven emotions of happiness, anger, worry, thought, sadness, fear and fear is the normal human emotions, people face the world must have these changes in emotions, otherwise it will not become a person, the key is not over, over is hurt, so a healthy lifestyle includes good control of the emotions, the so-called “body cultivation”. Good emotional control needs to improve their understanding of the world and the ability to correctly deal with sex, power, profit and other external temptations to you, this issue is too big to expand, in short, emotional comfort, optimism, open-mindedness is an important guarantee of health, anxiety, anger, panic and other emotions can significantly increase blood pressure, excessive joy can also make blood pressure rise. In Chinese medicine, the seven emotions occupy a very important position among the causative factors, especially in today’s society, when the material standard of living has reached a high level, the external evil (equivalent to viruses, bacteria, etc.) causing disease has become less and less, while the internal cause (excessive emotions) has become the main cause of disease. The third is the appropriate exercise, exercise and fitness we all know, but few people can adhere to, at the same time for the exercise and fitness many people also have some misconceptions, especially that the greater the intensity of exercise is conducive to physical fitness, of course, the more intense the exercise, the stronger the body, such as many competitive athletes super-intense training to make them very strong, but must remember that strong is not the same as healthy, strong people do not necessarily Long life, on the contrary, often they do not live long. The key to healthy exercise is to insist on light to moderate intensity exercise (the current popular name “aerobic exercise”, that is, in the process of exercise and exercise after the body can not appear hypoxic state, can not have chest tightness and breathlessness, muscle aches and pains after exercise), so Chinese medicine advocates the gentle exercise such as taijiquan, and in the process of exercise In the process of exercise through the regulation of breath to achieve the dual role of physical and mental pleasure.  As for the various health care herbal prescriptions that are currently popular on the Internet or among folk, I don’t advocate taking them on your own, because TCM emphasizes evidence-based treatment, and different people with different physiques must have different prescriptions for herbal conditioning, and a prescription cannot be applied to all people with high blood pressure, just like the “green bean” incident, after the ignorant and bad media As in the case of the “green bean” incident, after the bottomless propaganda of the ignorant and unscrupulous media, all the people competed for green beans. Therefore, it is recommended that you visit an herbalist to determine which prescription is right for you.