It dampens their spirit and makes them feel helpless. Mrs. Jones needs to be told that she has hypertension because of these reasons, and with proper nutrition, exercise, meditation or prayer, weight loss, and education there is a good chance she can beat it or certainly decrease the amount of medication she will need. Very few of these people are told how to break this time and money consuming cycle. Of course not, this would be curing their illnesses, and medical costs and profits would plummet. If people got healthier than there would be less open heart surgeries, less medications prescribed, less tests ordered and this whole health care system wouldn't t be able to tear into the wallets of our citizens as much.
Lets talk about high blood pressure.
The medical term for high blood pressure is hypertension. When the heart pumps the blood through the blood vessels, there is a certain amount of pressure that the blood flowing through the blood vessels creates it. So blood pressure is the actual pressure found inside the blood vessels in the body as the heart is pumping blood through it. As everything else in the body, the pressure in the blood vessels needs to be within a normal range. When the pressure in the blood vessels gets too high, then one has high blood pressure or hypertension.