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Amidst changing lifestyle and increasing work stress, high blood pressure has become a very serious and common disease in today’s time. Health experts also call it a ‘silent killer’, because its symptoms are not easily visible in the beginning and by the time a person realizes it, it has caused huge damage to the main organs of the body. Often people ignore it considering it to be just an effect of increasing age, but the reality is that some of our small daily mistakes and habits lead to this disease. According to health experts, if you understand the main reasons for increasing blood pressure in time, then you can completely protect yourself from fatal complications like heart attack and stroke.

Excessive use of salt and bad eating habits are the biggest enemies.

The first and main reason for sudden uncontrolled blood pressure is our wrong eating habits and excessive amount of sodium i.e. salt in our food. In today’s times, the trend of eating things like processed food, junk food, canned snacks, pickles and papad has increased a lot, in which large amount of salt is used as preservative. As the amount of sodium in the body increases, it starts putting pressure on our blood vessels, due to which blood flow increases and blood pressure remains high. Along with this, lack of fresh fruits and green vegetables in the diet also gives rise to this problem.

Excessive mental stress and incomplete sleep are becoming major reasons

In today’s busy life, stress has become a part of every person’s life, but do you know that this stress directly attacks your heart? When you undergo continuous mental stress due to workload or personal problems, the secretion of stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline increases in the body. These hormones speed up the heartbeat and constrict blood vessels, causing an immediate increase in blood pressure. Besides this, not getting at least 7 to 8 hours of deep sleep at night also spoils the body’s natural healing process and makes blood pressure uncontrolled.

Physical inactivity and increasing weight invite disease.

If your work involves sitting at one place for hours and your daily routine does not include any physical activity, then you are first on the radar of high blood pressure. Due to not being physically active, the body’s metabolism slows down, which leads to accumulation of fat in the arteries and more force has to be used to keep the blood flowing. Along with this, increasing weight and obesity are directly to high BP. Due to weight gain, the heart has to work twice as hard as normal to deliver oxygen and blood to the entire body, which directly increases the blood pressure to high levels.

Addiction to smoking and alcohol which destroys health from within.

Many people start smoking and consuming alcohol in the name of hobby or reducing stress, but this habit is no less than poison for blood pressure patients. Nicotine present in cigarettes and beedis makes the walls of our blood arteries along with the lungs hard and narrow, which badly affects blood circulation. On the other hand, regular consumption of alcohol not only leads to weight gain, but it also completely neutralizes the effect of medicines that control blood pressure. If you are also repeating these mistakes, then be careful today so that your health can be saved from deteriorating.