How Diet and Body Weight Influence Blood Pressure

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How diet and body weight influence blood pressure and role of hormones
Literature review
In the current world, the issue obesity condition is continuing to attract public attention
especially in the health sector. Based on the impact of the situation on victims, researchers have
been trying to study and create awareness to the public. Increases in weight is directly related to
the diet that an individual consumes. However, apart from diet, the hormonal system that control
the blood pressure of individual can also result to increase in weight. The goal of this assignment
is to elaborate the relationship of diet body weight and hormonal balance in the body. In way to
illustrate the topic, the solution will use various literatures and data that was collected during the
field analysis. The data will be interpreted and analyzed based on the inputs provided.
Physiological functions
The body of any individual depends on what the person eat for it to maintain a normal blood
pressure according to Gabel et al, (2018;p.346). However, from the research, when an individual
develop a healthy eating habits, the body will also maintain a standard blood pressure. One of the
things that can indicate that an individual have quality health is the status of the blood pressure.
Blood pressure refers to the pressure that the blood have when it flows via the arteries as it
comes from the heart and moves all over the body. The blood pressure comes in two different
numbers. The first one is the systolic and the second one is the diastolic. Diastolic refers to the
point when the heart is at a relaxation point and do not pump any blood according to Semlitsch et
al, (2016; p.56). However, systolic is the point when the heart is pumping the blood to other parts
of the body. The systolic number is always on top while the diastolic forms the denominator. The

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standard blood pressure in the human body is always 120/80. There are cases when the blood
pressure go beyond that figure and that is when one may be diagnosed with hypertension.
On the other hand, there are diets that influence the increase in the blood pressure. One of the
main example of the diet is the higher intake of sodium in daily meals. When an individual takes
sodium of above 2400mg, Han et al, (2017; p. 167) states that the person is at high risk of having
high blood pressure. The second common type of diet that influence blood pressure is the higher
intake of fats. People who take saturated fat in their diets have higher risk of having high blood
pressure. Apart from high blood pressure, there is the issue of increase in weight. When the
blood pressure is high, the individual also risk being affected by arteriosclerosis. Arteriosclerosis
refers to the condition where walls of arteries thicken and harden. There also several ways in
which body weight influence blood pressure. When an individual’s body increases, the blood
pressure also continue to go higher. One of the known ways of being at risk of high blood
pressure the increase in weight. From the research, over seventy percent of those people
suffering from obesity also have high blood pressure. These group of people eat more calories as
compared to the calories they burn. The body weight keep increasing but the person have not
developed ways of burning the calories according to Muhammad et al, (2019; p.148). They eat a
lot of fats and drink alcoholic beverages on daily basis. From the weight, the blood pressure
starts developing as it approaches the complication stage.
There are also blood pressure hormones which may lead to obesity. In the human body, there is a
system referred to as the renin-angiotensin system. The purpose of the system in the body is to
regulate the blood pressure. When one is suffering from hypertension, one is always provided
with drugs that block the RAS hormone. Apart from regulation of pressure in the body, Zhang et
al, (2017; p.1100) say that RAS hormone also ensure that there is energy regulation in the body.