That's low blood pressure and will lead to gangrene
of the extremities at worse and just having cold hands
and feet at best.

Check this out:

A large scale government funded Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial
(MRFIT), which was a study costing more than $150 million dollars,
found that the coronary mortality was 70% higher in a group of
hypertensive patients that received aggressive treatment when
compared to a control group who received no treatment. (MRFIT;
Risk Factor Changes and Mortality Results, JAMA 246:1465-1477)

So this study is saying that those who did not take the medications
lived longer then those who did.

S.Simon - Googled and knows everything about blood pressure
including the above gem:


"Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message ...
That's not terrible, but it's not great either. Of course, mine
is quite below normal... 95/60 is typical, with about 69 bpm.

"Simple Simon" wrote in message
...
The real problem I have now is my stupid blood pressure.
I checked it today at the grocery store pharmacy where
they have one of those automatic machines and it was way
high. Looks like it's a month of Adkins diet to knock off
twenty pounds and miles of bicycle riding to assist and
gallons of water to drink to wash away all the poisons.

With a reading of 140/93 I doubt the doc will pass me.
I can get it back to 120/80 with the above routine as
I've done it a couple of times before. No salt, no beer,
no sugar, no caffeine - no nothing basically except
protein and a handful of raisins or an apple plus an
aspirin a day plus a multivitamin with minerals and it
will be so low I need not worry about flunking the physical.
The secret is lots of exercise and lots of water and keep
the calories below 500 a day and the weight just flies
off.

It's a good wake-up call at any rate. I don't want
to pop a vein in my head or something.

S.Simon




"Donal" wrote in message
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"Simple Simon" wrote in message
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Can't - it's still hurricane season and I also have to get my Master's
license renewed. I just completed the small vessel sea service form
and I have 389 hours documented in the last three years.

What does "documented" mean? I usually log about 2000nm a year. Have
you
really only done 1600 miles in the last three years???

Regards

Donal - who piles on the miles!
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