My family is odd.  I am not kidding you.  In fact, my hubby is most likely reading this right now saying to himself, “You got that right.”  Now the oddness is more on my dad’s side than my mom’s side, but it doesn’t matter much…we’re some strange folk.  We’re a bit on the science side so we seem to speak a whole different language than everybody else.  We think differently and we’re naturally corny.  It is what it is.  But I also inherited some amazing genes from both of my parents that I can send a big, fat thank you to them for:  all of my numbers are low (BP, Chol, Tri, etc.), I look younger than I am (not by much but I’ll take anything I can get), my skin is great and my spine is still intact.  All in all, I have no complaints.

But you could have been given a different hand in the card game of life.  For instance, my hubby has high BP even though he works out 4 days per week, is in great shape, keeps a clean diet and plays basketball 2 days per week.  I’d say he’s stress free, too, but he lives with me so say no more there. Ha!  He’s been dealt a crappy hand and there is not much more that he can do to naturally reduce his BP.  

Knowing your family history is important.  If he didn’t know that high BP ran in his family, he most likely would not have been as diligent about diet and exercise the way he is now.  Don’t wait until it is too late.  Find out all the risk factors in your family and start to change your lifestyle according to that.  Get routine physicals to stay on top of those things and start taking preventive measures now.  Don’t wait for something to happen to be proactive.  Get to snoopin’ in the family biz right now.

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