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Many medical studies have shown a relationship between obesity and high blood pressure. In fact, some medical studies have shown that obesity more than doubles the risk of having or developing high blood pressure (hypertension) . Furthermore, Obesity research has indicated that more than 70% of obese men and women suffer from having high blood pressure. A third study has shown that a person that is 20% overweight (obese), is eight times more likely to suffer from high blood pressure than a person with normal weight would1. There are many reasons why obesity is associated with causing high blood pressure.

Obesity presents an increase in the cardiac output, the blood volume and arterial resistance. In fact, obesity induces a high secretion of insulin in trying to decrease the excessive sugar concentration in the blood . The high concentration of blood sugar is due to excessive eating and the unnecessary intake of carbohydrates which breaks down into sugars which eventually......

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