Sugar and High Blood pressure

[Guest guest]

This was a new one to me: Read in one of the

articles collected by Dr. Mercola (www.mercola.com) that

higher insulin levels often appear together with high

blood pressure. It doesn't necessarily mean one is a

diabetic but using too much sugar might be the underlying

cause of high bloodpressure. As I said, I had not heard

of this before, and certainly worth my while trying

this out (that's why I have stopped using all sugar

now religiously). The causes for having high

bloodpressure are mostly unknown (Essential Hypertension), and

in my case I was given the advise to just blame it

on my parents, end of story (oh no, not the end,

take the tablets of course). <br>Would it really be

that simple. Sugar?<br><br>I'd like to hear your

opinions on this one because interestingly enough, having

consumed quite a bit of carrot juice which is rich in

(natural) sugars, my bp was soaring too.

[Guest guest]

hi blosshan,,,<br><br>Nice to see someone else

from Asutralia here!!<br><br>I am also d to

ghis interesting newsletter.<br><br>Refined sugar is a

very bad substance!! Sugars from whole foods such as

fruit will not cause any probelms with blood pressure!!

Hypertension is not caused by heredity but their may be a

genetic pre-disposition.<br><br>A low fat, high fiber,

devoid of salt, plant based diet combined with a healthy

weight and exercise plan is the key to getting over high

bolld pressure.<br><br>Also a recent study, by Dr Alan

Goldhamer, showed that supervised water fasting was one of

the best ways to over come HBP solving the problems

in over 90% of his patients!<br><br>Blake

[Guest guest]

Hi Blake,<br><br>Genetic disposition is the only

thing that I would accept as the one thing that I might

have inherited re high blood pressure. My diet is -

and has been for a long time - low if not void of fat

- no salt, mainly raw plant based. I keep reading

and learning and one day, I might hit the right

button for what works for me. The water fast is one

thing that I have not tried, yet. Mainly because I

don't want to lose any weight, never was a heavy weight

and had to work towards keeping the weight on. But if

I'm correct one of the forum members has done the

water fast to control bloodpressure. Better ask him

about his experience.<br>Cheers <br>Hanneke

[Guest guest]

That's been new to me too. Although I didn't find

the article at Dr. Mercola's site I don't think there

is a direct connection between sugar intake and high

blood presure. I quickly looked at Dr. Mercola's site

to find more info, esp. conditions in which the test

was held but. It's important, always look for

conditions. For example, " they " say you need more

antioxydants because they found a defficiency at a sample of

people. Such a kind of info has zero value for me. What

sample of people, what do the people eat...? You see?

And similar way I take the Dr. Mercola's " discovery "

with a reserve.<br> My solution to the sugar-high

blood presure conection is as follows:<br> As well

known, the main cause of high bp is excess of salt in a

diet. Salt (NaCl)is built up of Sodium. Your body tries

to keep Sodium and Potasium in balance. It's smart

enough so after a salty food it tells you it feels like

something sweet because it knows the only natural source of

Potasium (of course,edibl)is a fruit. " Unfortunatelly "

almost every fruit is sweet. But what happens when you

missunderstand that call of your body and take a processed sugar

deplaited of it's natural companion, Potassium? You tend to

eat more such a sugar and your Sodium-Potasium

balance remains biased toward the Sodium anyway.<br> Tom