What I constantly see is a situation where it's 95% diet and 5% hereditary -
and yet all of the 95% think they belong to the 5% - ie "it's not my fault -
and nothing can be done about it"




"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Cockpit Colin wrote:
Yes and no - yes in that there can be a tendency towards hypertension
passed
in the genes, no in that it's been proven that diet affects the way in
which
those genes choose to express themselves.

Personally, I have to wonder if the reason grandma + mum + the kids have
similar medical problems (including hypertension / obesity / type 2
diabeties etc) is that they've all eaten similar diets - passed down
from
one generation to the next.

My hypertension came in in just 3 months. I went from 115/60 to 165/105
during one summer when I was 37. The doc was pretty worried at first
and checked all sorts of things (EKG, chest x-ray, every blood test
known to man, etc.). He found nothing wrong and my diet didn't change
during that 3 months. And diet changes and exercise since then have had
no appreciable affect. The doc said it was heredity and a low dose of
ACE inhibitor has kept the BP in check for nearly 8 years now.

Sure, diet affects a lot of things, but you simply can't blame every ill
on diet.


Matt