Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 10/5/2018 1:33 PM, John H. wrote:
On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 09:26:17 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:


Had my twice yearly checkup at the VA yesterday.
Felt pretty good. All my bloodwork results were
normal, kidney and liver functions "excellent"
and the results of a routine EKG indicated
heart function is also "excellent" according to
the Doc.

My only issue I had two years ago when I first started
going to the VA was elevated blood pressure.
At the time it was something like 140/93.
Not off the charts, but needed to be lowered.

So, I've been losing some weight slowly and have
been taking a low dose medication to help lower
the BP.

Yesterday, two tests indicated my BP as 124/72 and
120/70.

Not bad. Not bad at all for a 69 year old who hasn't
really been into doing everything in a "healthy" manner.

I figure tomorrow I'll go out and get hit by a bus. :-)

That 124/72 is about where mine is every time I take a physical. Yet, my
doc persists in saying it's
a bit high and I should work on lowering it, like stop eating salt. I
finally went through my
military medical records and found a physical from when I was 23 years
old. Yup, blood pressure was
126/74. I gave him copy, and he's gotten off my ass.



According to charts I found on the 'net the "124" is "normal". The
"72" is "ideal".

120 or below is "ideal". So my second reading of 120/70 makes me
"ideal, ideal". :-)

I don't use table salt at all to add to food. I use "NoSalt"
which is potassium chloride. Food itself has all the salt you
need from what I understand. It took me a while to adjust to
"NoSalt" but now I prefer it over table salt. Only problem is
that potassium chloride is also a component of the "cocktail" used
for lethal injection executions.

Obviously it's in a much, much stronger dosage than NoSalt.






We gave up salt in 1973. Except for hard boiled eggs and tomato slices.
Was a previous drought in California and the salt water went up the river
past the contra Costa water intake. Chloride warms for heart patients and
my wife was pregnant complaining of swelling legs. So we got used to not
salting food.