High blood pressure / hypertension / silent killer

Bp (blood pressure) is the force of blood 'pushing' against the walls of the arteries with each heart-pump.

High bp can damage the body and lead to lots of complications - kidney failure, stroke, heart failure blah blah blah. But maybe its our lifestyles, our stress... the percentage of sufferers of high BP is rising and getting younger!

 The scariest part :- 

Due to little or no symptoms of high bp, one can be a 'carrier' for years w/o realising it! 

How many of us actually bother checking our bp number regularly until it is all too late? My dad has high bp BUT he never knew it until the STROKE came. Could the stroke been prevented? I don't know but just feel MAYBE... if only we knew... 

Besides lifestyle, bp has the tendency to rise with age. Hence all the more one should try jumping onto healthy lifestyle wagon with each passing year. Controlling it is possible, IF you want. 

2015

2014 was a very bad year... health wise for some of the dearest people around me.

Those warnings are like slaps - *piak piak piak* and I came to this:

We can be focused on accumulating WEALTH 

but when HEALTH is gone, 

there is only HELL

I want to write this blog, to share whatever that have been learnt along the way and for us, to monitor ourselves. 

Come 2015, a new year, a new beginning...