Living Your Best Life with Prehypertension (Part One): Prehypertension Defined

"Your blood pressure is a little higher than I'd like to see. What we’re looking at is prehypertension. I’m going to write you a prescription for hydrochlorathiazide. Take one everyday with orange juice and see me again in six months.”

My doctor continued to talk, defining my newly diagnosed prehypertension. He expressed how my salt intake effects my blood pressure and how It would be in my best interest to change my diet and start exercising. I was terrified because  I knew high blood pressure was serious business.

“Both of my parents are taking medication for high blood pressure,” I thought. “Do I now have high blood pressure as well? Do I have to eat bland food everyday? I’ve never even heard of prehypertension, what in the world is it?"

No, I didn't have high blood pressure, but yes, I was aggravated. I knew there would have to be a lifestyle change on my part because of prehypertension, " a precursor to chronic high blood pressure" and this change would wreak havoc on all of my fun, which was nothing more than a bunch of bad eatinghabits I loved to participate in.

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Living Your Best Life with Prehypertension (Part One): Prehypertension Defined

"Your blood pressure is a little higher than I'd like to see. What we’re looking at is prehypertension. I’m going to write you a prescription for hydrochlorathiazide. Take one everyday with orange juice and see me again in six months.”

My doctor continued to talk, defining my newly diagnosed prehypertension. He expressed how my salt intake effects my blood pressure and how It would be in my best interest to change my diet and start exercising. I was terrified because  I knew high blood pressure was serious business.

“Both of my parents are taking medication for high blood pressure,” I thought. “Do I now have high blood pressure as well? Do I have to eat bland food everyday? I’ve never even heard of prehypertension, what in the world is it?"

No, I didn't have high blood pressure, but yes, I was aggravated. I knew there would have to be a lifestyle change on my part because of prehypertension, " a precursor to chronic high blood pressure" and this change would wreak havoc on all of my fun, which was nothing more than a bunch of bad eatinghabits I loved to participate in.

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Top 5 Diet Books

Diet plans are every where. We find them on TV, on the Internet, in magazines and in books. There are those crash diets that everyone knows doesn't work. You starve yourself for a day or so and then you are so hungry, that you eat everything in your refrigerator and cabinets and then you  feel guilty that you gained weight again.

To lose weight and keep it off, you need to change your lifestyle. Changing your eating habits to include more healthy, nutritional foods and more exercise, will help you lose weight and keep it off. Here are five books that can help you lose weight and keep it off.

The South Beach Diet Super Charged

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Top 5 Diet Books for Losing or Maintaining Weight

Discover Dieting Tips in These Top 5 Diet Books

Whether you are trying to lose a few pounds or maintain your present weight, these top rated diet books provide practical and useful information to help you make smarter, eating choices. Each of these best-selling diet books provides dieting advice that will help you achieve your dieting goals.

Diet Books for Helping You Lose and Maintain Weight

The No S Diet: The Strikingly Simple Weight-Loss Strategy That Has Dieters Raving--and Dropping Pounds (Paperback) by Reinhard Engels and Ben Kallen, 208 pages.

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Living Your Best Life with Prehypertension (Part One): Prehypertension Defined

"Your blood pressure is a little higher than I'd like to see. What we’re looking at is prehypertension. I’m going to write you a prescription for hydrochlorathiazide. Take one everyday with orange juice and see me again in six months.”

My doctor continued to talk, defining my newly diagnosed prehypertension. He expressed how my salt intake effects my blood pressure and how It would be in my best interest to change my diet and start exercising. I was terrified because  I knew high blood pressure was serious business.

“Both of my parents are taking medication for high blood pressure,” I thought. “Do I now have high blood pressure as well? Do I have to eat bland food everyday? I’ve never even heard of prehypertension, what in the world is it?"

No, I didn't have high blood pressure, but yes, I was aggravated. I knew there would have to be a lifestyle change on my part because of prehypertension, " a precursor to chronic high blood pressure" and this change would wreak havoc on all of my fun, which was nothing more than a bunch of bad eatinghabits I loved to participate in.

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Living Your Best Life with Prehypertension (Part One): Prehypertension Defined

"Your blood pressure is a little higher than I'd like to see. What we’re looking at is prehypertension. I’m going to write you a prescription for hydrochlorathiazide. Take one everyday with orange juice and see me again in six months.”

My doctor continued to talk, defining my newly diagnosed prehypertension. He expressed how my salt intake effects my blood pressure and how It would be in my best interest to change my diet and start exercising. I was terrified because  I knew high blood pressure was serious business.

“Both of my parents are taking medication for high blood pressure,” I thought. “Do I now have high blood pressure as well? Do I have to eat bland food everyday? I’ve never even heard of prehypertension, what in the world is it?"

No, I didn't have high blood pressure, but yes, I was aggravated. I knew there would have to be a lifestyle change on my part because of prehypertension, " a precursor to chronic high blood pressure" and this change would wreak havoc on all of my fun, which was nothing more than a bunch of bad eatinghabits I loved to participate in.

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Living Your Best Life with Prehypertension (Part One): Prehypertension Defined

"Your blood pressure is a little higher than I'd like to see. What we’re looking at is prehypertension. I’m going to write you a prescription for hydrochlorathiazide. Take one everyday with orange juice and see me again in six months.”

My doctor continued to talk, defining my newly diagnosed prehypertension. He expressed how my salt intake effects my blood pressure and how It would be in my best interest to change my diet and start exercising. I was terrified because  I knew high blood pressure was serious business.

“Both of my parents are taking medication for high blood pressure,” I thought. “Do I now have high blood pressure as well? Do I have to eat bland food everyday? I’ve never even heard of prehypertension, what in the world is it?"

No, I didn't have high blood pressure, but yes, I was aggravated. I knew there would have to be a lifestyle change on my part because of prehypertension, " a precursor to chronic high blood pressure" and this change would wreak havoc on all of my fun, which was nothing more than a bunch of bad eatinghabits I loved to participate in.

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