Sunday, December 18, 2011
More Than just Words: A poem, a sound, a scream, one man's signature
More Than just Words: A poem, a sound, a scream, one man's signature: Woman By Guy T Woods Sr December 18, 2011 Women brace yourself, - - - Hold on tight to what I employ, Have you given yourself...
A poem, a sound, a scream, one man's signature
Woman
By Guy T
Woods Sr December 18, 2011
Women brace
yourself, - - - Hold on tight to what I employ,
Have you
given yourself due compensation to who you really are?
Walk up
right! - - - Take a poised position,
Do not assume
prehistoric postures or the labels that have been thrust on you for so many
years,
Your souls
were not made for that, to bear that shame!
Such
ignorance was not meant for you! But it was cast your way through jealousy;
But why?
You are pure beauty,
you should stand strong, and your mothers are made from the richness of this
earth, daughters of kings in their own right and have given you a true sense of
equilibrium,
They gave you
a sweet balance not like any other, of culture, passion and of heart.
Whisper in
the ears of your sons and daughters, and place this gene carefully in their
instruments; so that within each society they may be seen as great contributors,
Your children
are the seeds of great men and your daughters harness the breath of your
ancestry within their wombs.
And your
daughter’s breast, feed life to nations, and touch this world all over, with
gentle compassion, technology, with literature that touches the heart and
humanitarian efforts that heal lives and bring peace and so much more;
Do not let
the ugliness of this world tarnish your brilliance or make a mockery of the
riches within you!
You are not
the absence of color you define it, and you have placed your name on it in many
colors and shades,
Be now defined,
but not in teaching mediocrity but the fullness of who you really are, queens
to be lifted up and placed on the shoulders of Good men,
Not an enigma
but a living fact that should be placed on the lips of mankind and in their
hearts.
You are a
star on earth, placed hear because spiritually you desired to be, and God made
it possible!
And men
should be aware that your power has no ends, but you use it with purpose and
with responsibility, never to abuse.
I applaud you
because I see your potential and know who you are, I am your sons and
daughters, I am in love with you; the “You”.
And I will
always be bound to you, and feed richly from your bosoms, so feed me well woman
(wisdom).
I have much
years to go and miles to walk, and only you can truly love me the way I need to
be loved and nurtured for I am your.
I need you to
be “Woman in your fullness”
Women!
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Battling High Blood Pressure (one man's journey) Part # 4
Remember your goal and shoot for it.
I would like to point out; that when taking your journey to proper health, you have to make radical decisions based on you and how you think it will affect you and how it will play out in your life not anyone else’s, just yours! (Meaning that taking this step in your life, is your life change and even though it may affect others, Are you ready for it and it is necessary to have people who are going to be supportive to your cause). Some really important questions are who can I trust to help you fulfill your journey quest to good health? And can you find a reliable source for good solid information on diet and exercise? So now that is said please step up to the plate and take your swing. It is extremely helpful to find a partner for this journey (best person to get would be someone inside of your house-hold, and if not them someone who is facing the same thing as you) If they are facing the same thing as you both already have a bond and you will find that the desire to see each other through will be the aspect that binds you both together. Off you go – Now here are some foods that will help to lower your Cholesterol level. Be very careful as always, safety should be first and last.
Cholesterol: Top 5 foods to lower your numbers
Diet can play an important role in lowering your cholesterol. Here are five foods that can lower your cholesterol and protect your heart.
Can a bowl of oatmeal help lower your cholesterol? How about a handful of walnuts or even a baked potato topped with some heart-healthy margarine? A few simple tweaks to your diet — like these — may be enough to lower your cholesterol to a healthy level and help you stay off medications.
1. Oatmeal, oat bran and high-fiber foods
Oatmeal contains soluble fiber, which reduces your low-density lipoprotein (LDL), the "bad" cholesterol. Soluble fiber is also found in such foods as kidney beans, apples, pears, barley and prunes.
Soluble fiber can reduce the absorption of cholesterol into your bloodstream. Five to 10 grams or more of soluble fiber a day decreases your total and LDL cholesterol. Eating 1 1/2 cups of cooked oatmeal provides 6 grams of fiber. If you add fruit, such as bananas, you'll add about 4 more grams of fiber. To mix it up a little, try steel-cut oatmeal or cold cereal made with oatmeal or oat bran.
2. Fish and omega-3 fatty acids
Eating fatty fish can be heart-healthy because of its high levels of omega-3 fatty acids, which can reduce your blood pressure and risk of developing blood clots. In people who have already had heart attacks, fish oil — or omega-3 fatty acids — reduces the risk of sudden death.
Doctors recommend eating at least two servings of fish a week. The highest levels of omega-3 fatty acids are in:
· Mackerel
· Lake trout
· Herring
· Sardines
· Albacore tuna
· Salmon
· Halibut
You should bake or grill the fish to avoid adding unhealthy fats. If you don't like fish, you can also get small amounts of omega-3 fatty acids from foods like ground flaxseed or canola oil.
You can take an omega-3 or fish oil supplement to get some of the benefits, but you won't get other nutrients in fish, like selenium. If you decide to take a supplement, just remember to watch your diet and eat lean meat or vegetables in place of fish.
3. Walnuts, almonds and other nuts
Walnuts, almonds and other nuts can reduce blood cholesterol. Rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids, walnuts also help keep blood vessels healthy.
According to the Food and Drug Administration, eating about a handful (1.5 ounces, or 42.5 grams) a day of most nuts, such as almonds, hazelnuts, peanuts, pecans, some pine nuts, pistachio nuts and walnuts, may reduce your risk of heart disease. Just make sure the nuts you eat aren't salted or coated with sugar.
All nuts are high in calories, so a handful will do. To avoid eating too many nuts and gaining weight, replace foods high in saturated fat with nuts. For example, instead of using cheese, meat or croutons in your salad, add a handful of walnuts or almonds.
Cholesterol: Top 5 foods to lower your numbers
4. Olive oil
Olive oil contains a potent mix of antioxidants that can lower your "bad" (LDL) cholesterol but leave your "good" (HDL) cholesterol untouched.
The Food and Drug Administration recommends using about 2 tablespoons (23 grams) of olive oil a day in place of other fats in your diet to get its heart-healthy benefits. To add olive oil to your diet, you can saute vegetables in it, add it to a marinade, or mix it with vinegar as a salad dressing. You can also use olive oil as a substitute for butter when basting meat or as a dip for bread. Olive oil is high in calories, so don't eat more than the recommended amount.
The cholesterol-lowering effects of olive oil are even greater if you choose extra-virgin olive oil, meaning the oil is less processed and contains more heart-healthy antioxidants. But keep in mind that "light" olive oils are usually more processed than extra-virgin or virgin olive oils and are lighter in color, not fat or calories.
5. Foods with added plant sterols or stanols
Foods are now available that have been fortified with sterols or stanols — substances found in plants that help block the absorption of cholesterol.
Margarines, orange juice and yogurt drinks with added plant sterols can help reduce LDL cholesterol by more than 10 percent. The amount of daily plant sterols needed for results is at least 2 grams — which equals about two 8-ounce (237-milliliter) servings of plant sterol-fortified orange juice a day.
Plant sterols or stanols in fortified foods don't appear to affect levels of triglycerides or of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), the "good" cholesterol.
Other changes to your diet
For any of these foods to provide their benefit, you need to make other changes to your diet and lifestyle.
Cut back on the cholesterol and total fat — especially saturated and trans fats — that you eat. Saturated fats, like those in meat, full-fat dairy products and some oils, raise your total cholesterol. Trans fats, which are sometimes found in margarines and store-bought cookies, crackers and cakes, are particularly bad for your cholesterol levels. Trans fats raise low-density lipoprotein (LDL), the "bad" cholesterol, and lower high-density lipoprotein (HDL), the "good" cholesterol.
There is more I hope to have placed all the pieces in place and have you on your way to good health soon, I will write up all the workout and exercise eliments before too long and we will be doing opur thing together. The way I see it High Blood Pressure does not have a chance. Love you people and I certainly love myself and will not go out with out purpose and a good fight.
By Guy T Woods Sr and the good help of the Mayo Clinic who actually wrote this piece.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Battling High Blood Pressure (one man's journey) Part 3
This is Part # 3 with your BMI Charts and other things that will give you some sort of a start : I promise that I will be more forth coming with the program for weight loss and proper nutrition with the next few days. But please remember that this program is an aggressive approach to High Blood Pressure control and possible elimination.
4. It is important to know and maintain a good BMI or body mass index; Body mass index: A key index for relating a person's body weight to their height. The body mass index (BMI) is a person's weight in kilograms (kg) divided by their height in meters (m) squared. The best BMI to maintain is should be between 18.5 - 24.9. The rule of thumb according to WebMD. Here is a chart for you to take a look at and it may give you some prospective and you look for your particular BMI.
A person with a BMI of 25-29.9 is considered to be overweight. A BMI over 30 is considered obese. A BMI of 40 or above indicates that a person is morbidly obese. This can increases a person's risk of death from any cause by 50% to 150%.
5. One more thing to remember while you are on this journey to good health and fighting the disease of High Blood Pressure, small things like exercise or good activity is paramount for proper blood circulation and oxygen flow. This helps to make proper brain function and helps to defuse stress which brings us to the next point.
6. It is absolutely necessary to grab a hold of the stress in your life one way is to get the proper amount of sleep for great digestion and proper re-growth for cell replacement. Growth hormones kick in when we are in deep sleep.
So grabbing on to the right amount of sleep is a must in getting a hold of your health, when it comes to High Blood Pressure.
Please note that there is more to this piece as the days and weeks as I continue with this battle. I will be giving you a blow by blow update; of my struggles and my wins as I conquer the battle with High Blood Pressure and I will be giving some before and after pictures that will also show you the progress reports. This is something that I believe that will help not only me but others like me who may have questions and don’t know how to formulate them so that they can be asked and get the answers for you. There will be charts and also alternatives to my method and reasons why I chose one way over another, plus the effects that one can expect from diet, exercise, and more.
PLEASE NOTE!
Now although most of this information you may be able to find on most internet sights the combination and approach is one that I am designing and using for me in the tackling of my own problem and should be look at with caution, and checked out with a physician or primary care Doctor; this maybe too aggressive of an approach for some people.
So till next time here this is Guy T Woods SR
We need to talk
Take a good look at this and when you are done get activated, You are now called to duty to save our youth by any means necessary. So if you think that African American youth are not your responsibility then think again. Don't be foolish we all live in the same village people and we all have an affect on one another, I love you too people.
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
Battling High Blood Pressure ( one man's journey) Part 2
Problems with drugs
The current convention of diagnosing blood pressure as "high" beginning at 140/90 has created another set of problems. Most doctors have been taught that once a diagnosis of "high blood pressure" has been made, blood pressure medication is the treatment of choice. As a result, many physicians believe that the current definition of "high" blood pressure is also the same level of blood pressure at which drug treatments are worthwhile. Unfortunately, this is not the case.
In multiple studies conducted by world leaders in high blood pressure research, drug treatments have been found to be surprisingly ineffective. In fact, there is no clear evidence that drug therapy reduces the risk of death in patients with "mild" high blood pressure which is the majority of diagnosed patients! In summarizing the results of one of the largest clinical trials ever conducted performed by the prestigious British Medical Research Council it was reported that for mildly hypertensive patients, "...Active (drug) treatment had no evident effect on the overall cause of mortality...." In a subsequent review of the entire scientific literature, the British Medical Journal concluded that there is "no appreciable benefit to an individual patient from treating (with drugs) a diastolic pressure of less than 100...." What these scientists found was that while drug treatments for mild hypertension may be effective at lowering blood pressure, they were not effective in reducing overall mortality. Put more bluntly, hypertension patients in these studies died at about the same rate whether they took medication or not. These findings reaffirm an important health principle treating the symptoms of disease is not the same thing as causing health.
It also would appear that the dangerous "side effects" of high blood pressure drugs are sufficiently substantial to obliterate any positive effects of reducing mild high blood pressure in this artificial manner. In fact, the side effects of medications are sufficiently toxic that leading medical authorities suggest that medications only become worth the risks when blood pressure becomes "moderately to severely elevated" (160/100 or above). Typical side effects of high blood pressure medications range from mildly unpleasant to lethal. These include fatigue, gastric irritation, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dizziness, headache, impotence, depression, and congestive heart failure.
Don’t assume that your doctor is aware of these facts. If you are diagnosed with mild high blood pressure, you likely will be prescribed medication, instructed that it is helpful, and told that you must take it for the rest of your life. But before accepting this potentially dangerous treatment, it may be to your advantage to seek answers to the following questions: "What caused my high blood pressure?" and "Can I remove those causes and reverse this condition?"
Now these are the words of well established Physicians in the their field, who have not only a great educated guess about the use of High Blood Pressure medication but have seen the effects of these drugs out in the field and their application on good unsuspecting patients and also the doctors who have no real clue about the side effects of these drugs once administered to their patients. Both Doctors and patient are unaware of the full length of the side effects that they may even later a patient to go into cardio-arrest or commonly known as heart failure and or death.
In my own case I was placed on High Blood Pressure meds and found out later that I had a case of anxiety, massive headaches all day long and stomach problems, no sex drive and fatigue, The are things I had never in my life ever experience in my life. I was an athlete and had been strong, with no sign of muscle atrophy but I had become a walking vegetable, depressed and drained of all life and will to live. I had been diagnosed with having High Blood Pressure for some years now and the Blood Pressure has gone up and down and it had even stabilized for a brief couple of years at one point. Now at the age of 51 I decided to make a statement, and with all of the gathered information from around the medical and holistic and herbal societies I have decided to make my journey to true health using my very own body as an instrument to measure what is good for me and possibly for you as well. I am hoping that you would follow me through the dark catacombs
The current convention of diagnosing blood pressure as "high" beginning at 140/90 has created another set of problems. Most doctors have been taught that once a diagnosis of "high blood pressure" has been made, blood pressure medication is the treatment of choice. As a result, many physicians believe that the current definition of "high" blood pressure is also the same level of blood pressure at which drug treatments are worthwhile. Unfortunately, this is not the case.
In multiple studies conducted by world leaders in high blood pressure research, drug treatments have been found to be surprisingly ineffective. In fact, there is no clear evidence that drug therapy reduces the risk of death in patients with "mild" high blood pressure which is the majority of diagnosed patients! In summarizing the results of one of the largest clinical trials ever conducted performed by the prestigious British Medical Research Council it was reported that for mildly hypertensive patients, "...Active (drug) treatment had no evident effect on the overall cause of mortality...." In a subsequent review of the entire scientific literature, the British Medical Journal concluded that there is "no appreciable benefit to an individual patient from treating (with drugs) a diastolic pressure of less than 100...." What these scientists found was that while drug treatments for mild hypertension may be effective at lowering blood pressure, they were not effective in reducing overall mortality. Put more bluntly, hypertension patients in these studies died at about the same rate whether they took medication or not. These findings reaffirm an important health principle treating the symptoms of disease is not the same thing as causing health.
It also would appear that the dangerous "side effects" of high blood pressure drugs are sufficiently substantial to obliterate any positive effects of reducing mild high blood pressure in this artificial manner. In fact, the side effects of medications are sufficiently toxic that leading medical authorities suggest that medications only become worth the risks when blood pressure becomes "moderately to severely elevated" (160/100 or above). Typical side effects of high blood pressure medications range from mildly unpleasant to lethal. These include fatigue, gastric irritation, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dizziness, headache, impotence, depression, and congestive heart failure.
Don’t assume that your doctor is aware of these facts. If you are diagnosed with mild high blood pressure, you likely will be prescribed medication, instructed that it is helpful, and told that you must take it for the rest of your life. But before accepting this potentially dangerous treatment, it may be to your advantage to seek answers to the following questions: "What caused my high blood pressure?" and "Can I remove those causes and reverse this condition?"
Now these are the words of well established Physicians in the their field, who have not only a great educated guess about the use of High Blood Pressure medication but have seen the effects of these drugs out in the field and their application on good unsuspecting patients and also the doctors who have no real clue about the side effects of these drugs once administered to their patients. Both Doctors and patient are unaware of the full length of the side effects that they may even later a patient to go into cardio-arrest or commonly known as heart failure and or death.
In my own case I was placed on High Blood Pressure meds and found out later that I had a case of anxiety, massive headaches all day long and stomach problems, no sex drive and fatigue, The are things I had never in my life ever experience in my life. I was an athlete and had been strong, with no sign of muscle atrophy but I had become a walking vegetable, depressed and drained of all life and will to live. I had been diagnosed with having High Blood Pressure for some years now and the Blood Pressure has gone up and down and it had even stabilized for a brief couple of years at one point. Now at the age of 51 I decided to make a statement, and with all of the gathered information from around the medical and holistic and herbal societies I have decided to make my journey to true health using my very own body as an instrument to measure what is good for me and possibly for you as well. I am hoping that you would follow me through the dark catacombs
None Medication application to lowering your blood pressure and keeping it under control
- Inform your primary care Doctor of your intentions in taking this route of natural homeopathic method to health and ask him or her for healthy diet plan and tell him to be specific in giving you items that you should avoid if any make sure that you keep a log. Even though you are taking your health into your own hands you don’t want to be foolish and just step off into the great abyss, you need to layout how to start in a safe way; you will always need help, it would not be wise to go swimming in the ocean and don’t have a life vest handy; as you focus on your health make sure that you learn what is good for you and what is bad and good information comes from all types of sources. Even you primary care physician can offer you some helpful hints.
2. Keep all appointments and follow ups with Doctor – monitoring your come back to proper health is imperative to your ongoing health, high blood pressure can be kept under control with the proper attention to diet and good nutrition, along with the proper exercise.
3. For the most part of making sure that you tackle this problem in a manor that will bring you the best results, cut all salts or as much of it out of your diet as you possibly can; this could be as simple as life or death decision to a person with High blood pressure. * Make sure that you read all labels on all packaged or processed products for salt intake of sodium or its by products. Remember if you have questions in this area it is best to ask a good dietitian (get helpful hints from your doctor, there are good information on the internet, Google helpful diet plan for fighting high blood pressure is a good place to start).
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4. It is important to know and maintain a good BMI or body mass index; Body mass index: A key index for relating a person's body weight to their height. The body mass index (BMI) is a person's weight in kilograms (kg) divided by their height in meters (m) squared. The best BMI to maintain is should be between 18.5 - 24.9. The rule of thumb according to WebMD. Here is a chart for you to take a look at and it may give you some prospective and you look for your particular BMI.
Part # 2
Battling High Blood Pressure ( one man's journey) Part 1
My outlook on how to attack high Blood Pressure- one man’s journey! The will to live a healthy long life and lengths in which I am willing to go to get there! I now ask you to take this journey with me and maybe help your own self if this disease has hit you or help someone you know who may be faced with this in their lives.
United States
Medical doctors overwhelmingly recommend drug therapy for this condition, making blood pressure drugs the number one prescriptive medication in this country. But is drug therapy the best approach? And, is it safe?
There are many popular medical myths about high blood pressure. For example, many physicians believe that high blood pressure is an "inevitable consequence of aging"; that the "only viable treatment option for high blood pressure patients is medication"; that high blood pressure patients must take their medications "for the rest of their lives"; and, worst of all, that high blood pressure medications are "safe and effective." This article will show that drug treatment is not the only viable treatment option, and that drug treatment is disturbingly dangerous. In fact, studies strongly suggest that for the majority of patients with high blood pressure, medications may be more dangerous than doing nothing at all.
Fortunately, there exist powerful diet and lifestyle treatment options that safely and effectively reduce high blood pressure. But don’t assume that your doctor will tell you about them because many doctors are simply unaware of the facts. Before exploring how to safely treat this condition, let’s look at what high blood pressure is, and seek to understand why it is our nation’s number one public health concern. In doing so, it will become clear why medical management is generally so ineffective, and why a safer, more effective approach one which takes advantage of the human body’s built-in healing mechanisms is often the best choice.
What is blood pressure?
Although high blood pressure does not cause any pain, and cannot be detected without a special device, it is clearly a serious health problem worthy of your rapt attention. But what is "blood pressure," and what can cause it to become "high"?
If you have ever been in a hot tub with the "jets" on, you have observed a circulating system. When the pump is "on," the water circulates from the hot tub, through pipes, into a pump, and then back to the hot tub. In this way, the water can be put through a filter to remove impurities, and be re-utilized, again and again. A hot tub with its pump "on" is a simple circulatory system. When the pump is "off," the water stops circulating and stays wherever it is in the system.
Your circulatory system is very much like the hot tub’s. Your blood is like the water. Your heart is like the pump, and your blood vessels are like the pipes. Your heart pumps your blood through the circulatory system in order to feed oxygen and nutrients to cells throughout your body, and to remove waste products. By circulating through the system, your blood is filtered, and re-utilized, again and again.
In a hot tub, as the water comes through the pipes it has a degree of force. This force is caused by the action of the pump, which puts energy into the circulating system and forces the water through the pipes. When the pump is off, there still may be water in the pipes, but there is no force. The degree of force in the system when the pump is on can be gauged in a number of ways, such as by putting your hand in front of a "jet." Another way would be to have a device to measure the amount of force that the water exerts against the walls of the pipes as it circulates. Such a device might yield a numerical measurement of the force, or pressure, of the water within the pipes.
Similarly, your blood exerts a force against the walls of your blood vessels as it circulates through your body. The degree of this force is called your "blood pressure," and it can be measured with a blood pressure monitoring device. Unlike the water pressure in the hot tub, however, human blood pressure is highly variable. In the hot tub, the water ejected by the jets comes in a steady, pressurized stream. But in the human circulatory system, blood pressure varies dramatically from one moment to the next.
Unlike the smooth action of the hot tub pump, the human heart expands and contracts mightily each second or so, causing your blood pressure to be comparatively high one moment, and comparatively low in the next. That is why we need two measurements when checking your blood pressure one at the moment when the pressure is highest (your systolic blood pressure), and one a moment later, when the pressure is lowest (your diastolic blood pressure).
Your systolic blood pressure is always higher than your diastolic blood pressure, and is always the "top" number when your pressure is reported. If your doctor tells you that your blood pressure is "120 over 80," this means that your systolic blood pressure was measured at "120," and your diastolic was at "80." Both your systolic and diastolic blood pressure measurements are important because they indicate how well your circulatory system is working. If either of these measurements is unusually high, this warrants your serious attention. Because, as previously mentioned, elevated blood pressure may be not only a sign of cardiovascular disease, it is a cause of disease, as well.
This is only the Part # 1
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My outlook on how to attack high Blood Pressure- one man’s journey! The will to live a healthy long life and lengths in which I am willing to go to get there! I now ask you to take this journey with me and maybe help your own self if this disease has hit you or help someone you know who may be faced with this in their lives.
High Blood Pressure
What your doctor doesn’t know
that can kill you By
Douglas Lisle, Ph.D.
Alan Goldhamer, D.C.
High blood pressure, also known as "hypertension," is the number one reason people visit their doctor in the What your doctor doesn’t know
that can kill you By
Douglas Lisle, Ph.D.
Alan Goldhamer, D.C.
Medical doctors overwhelmingly recommend drug therapy for this condition, making blood pressure drugs the number one prescriptive medication in this country. But is drug therapy the best approach? And, is it safe?
There are many popular medical myths about high blood pressure. For example, many physicians believe that high blood pressure is an "inevitable consequence of aging"; that the "only viable treatment option for high blood pressure patients is medication"; that high blood pressure patients must take their medications "for the rest of their lives"; and, worst of all, that high blood pressure medications are "safe and effective." This article will show that drug treatment is not the only viable treatment option, and that drug treatment is disturbingly dangerous. In fact, studies strongly suggest that for the majority of patients with high blood pressure, medications may be more dangerous than doing nothing at all.
Fortunately, there exist powerful diet and lifestyle treatment options that safely and effectively reduce high blood pressure. But don’t assume that your doctor will tell you about them because many doctors are simply unaware of the facts. Before exploring how to safely treat this condition, let’s look at what high blood pressure is, and seek to understand why it is our nation’s number one public health concern. In doing so, it will become clear why medical management is generally so ineffective, and why a safer, more effective approach one which takes advantage of the human body’s built-in healing mechanisms is often the best choice.
What is blood pressure?
Although high blood pressure does not cause any pain, and cannot be detected without a special device, it is clearly a serious health problem worthy of your rapt attention. But what is "blood pressure," and what can cause it to become "high"?
If you have ever been in a hot tub with the "jets" on, you have observed a circulating system. When the pump is "on," the water circulates from the hot tub, through pipes, into a pump, and then back to the hot tub. In this way, the water can be put through a filter to remove impurities, and be re-utilized, again and again. A hot tub with its pump "on" is a simple circulatory system. When the pump is "off," the water stops circulating and stays wherever it is in the system.
Your circulatory system is very much like the hot tub’s. Your blood is like the water. Your heart is like the pump, and your blood vessels are like the pipes. Your heart pumps your blood through the circulatory system in order to feed oxygen and nutrients to cells throughout your body, and to remove waste products. By circulating through the system, your blood is filtered, and re-utilized, again and again.
In a hot tub, as the water comes through the pipes it has a degree of force. This force is caused by the action of the pump, which puts energy into the circulating system and forces the water through the pipes. When the pump is off, there still may be water in the pipes, but there is no force. The degree of force in the system when the pump is on can be gauged in a number of ways, such as by putting your hand in front of a "jet." Another way would be to have a device to measure the amount of force that the water exerts against the walls of the pipes as it circulates. Such a device might yield a numerical measurement of the force, or pressure, of the water within the pipes.
Similarly, your blood exerts a force against the walls of your blood vessels as it circulates through your body. The degree of this force is called your "blood pressure," and it can be measured with a blood pressure monitoring device. Unlike the water pressure in the hot tub, however, human blood pressure is highly variable. In the hot tub, the water ejected by the jets comes in a steady, pressurized stream. But in the human circulatory system, blood pressure varies dramatically from one moment to the next.
Unlike the smooth action of the hot tub pump, the human heart expands and contracts mightily each second or so, causing your blood pressure to be comparatively high one moment, and comparatively low in the next. That is why we need two measurements when checking your blood pressure one at the moment when the pressure is highest (your systolic blood pressure), and one a moment later, when the pressure is lowest (your diastolic blood pressure).
Your systolic blood pressure is always higher than your diastolic blood pressure, and is always the "top" number when your pressure is reported. If your doctor tells you that your blood pressure is "120 over 80," this means that your systolic blood pressure was measured at "120," and your diastolic was at "80." Both your systolic and diastolic blood pressure measurements are important because they indicate how well your circulatory system is working. If either of these measurements is unusually high, this warrants your serious attention. Because, as previously mentioned, elevated blood pressure may be not only a sign of cardiovascular disease, it is a cause of disease, as well.
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