Quote Originally Posted by peter mcneil View Post
Quote Originally Posted by snake_in_the_ass View Post

Druff wants to blame his high blood pressure on genetics so he can continue drinking his Pepsi and Orange Juice and gobbling up his pizza and subway sandwiches with tomatoes on the side. Maybe his entire family has bad eating habits, especially being Jews and their love for bagels which are full of sugar. Do an experiment Todd, cut the carbs for the rest of the year and lets see if your blood pressure becomes normal. I will bet that it does.
If Druff reduced his sodium under 1500mg per day, eliminated refined sugars, dropped a few lbs I'd be willing to take a bet that his blood pressure improves dramatically, hard to say if it gets to a normal level because genetics play a huge role. I also agree that him believing his purely genetic allows him to continue with a behaviour he enjoys and doesn't want to quit (eating like shit). How do you know for sure what your family genetics are, Druff? It's very hard to study because eating patterns are generally passed down from parents. If most of your family eats like shit and heart disease/high blood pressure is an issue you won't know if it's genetic. Why not take a crack at living healthy for a year and find out the truth? It's a tough month changing the habits but well worth it, you'll also break a cycle and pass down a gift to your son that will improve everything about his life.

Sorry if I seem preachy, I just feel so fucking good with the changes I've made the last few years and I'd love to see others do the same.
Not preachy at all. You actually have inspired me to quit drinking for a few weeks and see how that goes. Also, never really considered salt intake to the level you have it down. Started on the no drinking yesterday and on day 2. Besides some weird dreams and some minor sweats not bad so far. Have some benzos around in case it gets real bad but doubt will get to that level.

On another note, I know several people that had high blood pressure in their family history and they also had high blood pressure. However, once they changed their diets their blood pressure went to normal. My point is if you have high blood pressure you may as well try a diet change first and see if that brings it back to normal. If not, then so be it and then take meds. Also, something that is never really is taked about. Just because your family has a history of high blood pressure, it doesn't necessarily mean their is a genetic component to it. So many families as a whole eat like shit, that the family history of high blood pressure could have been created by a bad diet.