Re: Kids In Hospital With High Blood Pressure Double In Ten Years, US

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One problem is very few automatic BP devices have passed AAMI standards for accuracy.Another is the salt load now being presented to kids that increases BP But no one seems to care.CE Grim MDOn Jun 27, 2012, at 8:49 AM, Study Circle wrote: Kids In Hospital With High Blood Pressure Double In Ten Years, US

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And another problem is nobody ever takes BP measurements correctly so it doesn't

matter how accurate the device is! (I wonder how many of those " Kids " were calm

and relaxed and had been sitting calmly with their feet flat on the floor for 5

minutes and no eating, drinking or smoking for 30 minutes! Yes, I said smoking

- I saw tht kid on TV!)

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Don't forget that our food supply is more contaminated with processed foods, GMO

foods, and frankenfoods than ever before. Many of these food-like substances (I

refuse to call them " foods " because I don't believe they should be eaten!) are

highly concentrated sources of calories, from the obvious Big Gulp to the

healthy-sounding Whole Grain loaf of bread (filled with, additionally, high

fructose corn syrup, additional bulking agents, you name it - not just flour and

water like great-grandma used to make).

Thanks to my many food intolerances, I have to read every single label on

everything, even things like a raw chicken breast. You don't know how many times

I've read " water, salt, modified food starch " on something that by all

appearances is nothing but chicken. That starch = calories.

And then there's our good friend high fructose corn syrup, which is a toxic

poison to someone like myself who has fructose intolerance. It's in everything,

including things one wouldn't automatically associate with sugar - bread, savory

foods, and yes, any frozen chicken-like product. Those brown grill marks on your

frozen chicken meal? Usually HFCS, which browns more uniformly than table sugar.

Also, one more culprit to add to the list of demons making us all fat and

hypertensive: the lack of readily available natural food. A couple people here

have posted about buying meat at Walmart and having a hard time finding any that

hasn't been infused with sodium. This sounded almost surreal to me, as I live

WALKING distance to several markets where unprocessed natural food is readily

available - but I get the impression that most of the country has fewer choices.

And they probably have to DRIVE to their nearest Walmart anyway.

Okay, rant over. For now, anyway.

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> Subject: RE: Re: Kids In Hospital With High Blood

Pressure Double In Ten Years, US

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> Date: Wednesday, June 27, 2012, 5:56 PM

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> Alas of the bygone days when moms stayed at home and cooked delicious foods

for all kids walking back and forth to/from schools J

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> No wonder kids are ending up with high BP. Have you seen the crap foods,

targeted to kids, that are advertised on TV? It's all loaded with salt. Parents

are the ones who need to wake up and start serving wholesome snacks instead of

pre-packaged food.

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As long as we are on a rant, chaperone a school trip sometime! I drove a tour

bus for 7 years and talk about fast food! McD, BK and if in Orlando it's the

Golden Corral for breakfast every day! Want to bet if they ate healthy at

Disney! (It certainly a good lesson on how to kill yourself when you are in a

hurry and having fun, IMHO!)

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Golly,you had it easy! All I did was work on the neighbor's farm from the time Iwas 12! 3hours a night 6 days a week for $3/week! Goveronment probably wouldn't even allow that today. Oh, we had recess. I was in a one room school house, 2 grades. I remember in 5 & 6th we had a little old grandmother (she actually retired when we moved on to middle school). She used to go out at recess time and would chase you if she caught you goofing off (all in fun). She often played kickball, volleyball or whatever! Oh, BTW, I don't think she weighed much over 100 lbs and lived into her 90's!

In H.S. I was 5'7" and weighed around 115 (119 when I went into the A.F.) One of my biggest moments was in P.E. when I had the fastest time for the rope climb. (2 inch rope from gym floor to roof support and back, maybe 30 feet up.) Coach couldn't believe that I beat all his athletes so I had to repeat for him! (Hand over hand up and free fall down, nothing to it if you've been tossing around bags of grain and bales of hay that weigh more than you for 5 years!

(Now my weight training is lifting 300 lbs every time I head to the fridge or coffee pot!)

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South Pomfret, Vermont. 19 houses and 3 miles from a town of ~2500. The

largest city in Vermont has ~39,000 (more when college is in session).

A group of Moms got together in the summer and canned excess vegetables from the

gardens for hot lunches in the winter and one of the Moms cooked and delivered.

We had milk delivered, in glass bottles BTW, and you had to drink yours before

going out for the 10am recess!

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