aka mother's milk. ;)

Sounds like you need to kick the mafia habit

I guessed the alcohol and the caffeine. In fact I bet you were not obvlivious of that unhealthy diet, although you didn't know the high blood pressure. I forgot about the sugar intake, but that counts for most people in typical western countries I believe.

Just do it, bb. If you're still together with that lady, tell her that you're going to stop drinking alcohol and caffeine entirely.

I imagine that salt is a lot about awareness. I don't give a shit about the contents even though I should. Force yourself to learn about how much salt there is in the things you eat, do the math and make improvements. See how far that gets you.

Most people know they eat unhealthy but don't really realize it. By knowing your blood pressure, you were hopefully given the gift of realisation so you can actually improve your lifestyle.
Show some devotion and you might end up ahead of the rest as far as health goes.
Every risk brings opportunity.

Salt intake. I thought salt but I typed sugar.

Thank you steephie.

Get a better doctor, because studies have shown that for some individuals changing alcohol, salt, or sugar intake makes no difference to blood pressure. It's not enough to cut back, but to find out if it made a difference.

High blood pressure can be caused by stress, so changing your diet does nothing.

nice trolling Randomizer..."studies have show that for SOME individuals...so changing your diet does nothing".

What makes you think that bb is part of the SOME individuals? What if he was part of the majority? Nonetheless, being in a doctor's care is in order.

Holy shit dude how did it get that bad?

Oh yeah from the sounds of it, brainbomb will also want to reduce his stress levels, but I figured that would happen slowly as his girlfriend now presumably stopped fucking his mind every other day.

(I'm not saying this in a condescending way bb - been there!)

Also Randomizer, honestly regardless of his blood pressure he needs to reduce his alcohol and caffeine intake if he's giving me the right impression on those things.

The fact that he has a high blood pressure just makes it even more risky to abuse alcohol in particular.

That said, take my advice with a grain of salt (<and don't take more salt than that ;P) because I'm talking from amateur knowledge combined with biology lessons.

Seriously though, take any excuse to improve your diet, especially reducing alcohol and caffeine intake. Small changes make a big difference if they make you a little healthier every day.

Back when my blood pressure was 90/60 I had a salt intake that was three to four times the recommended maximum. A medical student taking my blood pressure thought I had died after he started measuring it because he couldn't hear anything as the pressure dropped through 110 mm Hg.

Doctors give blanket responses to fix the problem without determining the cause so they can get to the next patient. If it's not better the next time he'll prescribe a drug to drop the blood pressure.

Also readings are usually higher in a doctor's office due to the stress of being there.

Stop giving your students so many essays. I see that they're very stressed about them, even complaining on rate my professors. You're giving them stress which goes back to you, etc.

Why are you looking me up on rate my professors lol...

1 student out of 180, and my essay was 7 pages the second was 5, and I was required to do that...

That's... nothing?

Sigh

Seriously, that's nothing.

My 6th graders do 1-2 pages typed.

How is 7 pages worthy of complaint at the college level?

Because college kids complain about many things.

Who complains about a 7 page essay?? Were you teaching high schoolers?

There is something so heartwarming about seeing James Yaniks christmas adventures on my news feed.

Christmas adventures? He finished his finals yesterday and was sick today.

I had a cousin who trained himself to control his heart rate and slow it down, so that 147 is about 100 bpm above his target range of 45 to 50 at rest. It was his trick for doctors & nurses who like to check that sort of stuff.

All I saw,was some picture of him laying on his bed with a bottle of moisturizer next to hin

Lmao, look at Prado, halfway through freshman year and already trashing on high schoolers

Yup

Literally i've been laying in bed with my dogs for 90% of my time at home.

don't you guys worry, there's an outlet nearby

No more playing Austria for you, BB. Four out of five dentists have proven that playing Austria increases your blood pressure.

Hoorah for Brainbomb. I have big news dear webdipbro brainbomb, exciting stuff that I've had hidden. Joyous news to fit the season. I have discreetly persuaded a delightful young woman, a casual lover to part ways with the unnapreciative, ignorant young blighter she had been domeciled with, to.leave him and become my new Mistress. Princess Estelle is just wonderful, in or out of pyjamas. And I've been stooging about at WebDiplomacy too long and have to go now. The dinner gong calleth me, and then I have a rendezvous with Princess Estelle & we are off to town so she can go night clubbing with some Christmas shopping tomorrow before my return to domestic bliss with the fire breathing MemSahib, who is being most understanding of this latest development. Although perhaps I should refrain from purchasing her that item circled in dressmaking chalk from the Purdey"s catalogue she left out for me to see.

Don't know if that'll help your blood pressure bb, but mine should be great with the combination of a lot more exercise with, and affection from Princess Estelle

Have you tried meditation and/or self-hypnosis?

Neither can alleviate the sonic assault & cacophony of a modern nightclub, so whilst Princess Estelle is dancing happily I have fled to the peace of a nearby coffee bar.

What a night, just wonderful and I glow today, happy, content, satiated and in love. Princess Estelle gave me a fantastic display of loyalty when I retrieved her from that incredibly noisy nightclub, by openly rejecting a number of would be suitors ( all much younger, better looking men than daffy old MajorMitchell ) and embracing this old fool and declaring that none of them could possibly be a better lover for her than this daffy old fool. Fortunately the nightclub security chaps were eager to protect us both, having been well tipped earlier by my good self. So frustrated younger lions had to behave themselves, and two of the security chaps were rewarded by Princess Estelle with affectionate kisses on their cheeks. I felt about two feet taller as I hailed us both a taxi. Time for luncheon, well almost, ta ta.

Major -- Your wife met me at my place in a crothcless teddym and she took a masive facial.

So....you know..no sweat. Famil if happy, yo

you know minor mitchel's wife is really a guy.

Dear profoundly stupid krellin, that is an amusing claim. I'd almost buy tickets to watch the fire breathing MemSahib deal with someone she would likely regard as an ill mannered knuckle dragging, semi literate bogan from those dissident American colonies.
As to physical contact, if you tried an importunate move, the fire breathing MemSahib is quite capable of spearing one the many knitting needles she seems to always have in her handbags through an eye.
You have no idea just how well armed the fire breathing MemSahib is, and her talent for using unconventional weapons, eg knitting needles.
I never look or enquire, but I suspect her handbag would contain a castrating knife at all times. You want a shot at the title holder ? Please insure yourself well & have top medical cover as I have every confidence in the fire breathing MemSahib's ability to defend herself.
As I drove Princess Estelle away from the city yesterday I had a brief thought about your boasting about some vehicle you have, someone else remarked on the compensating for self perceived inadequacies in the wedding tackle department and this vehicle of which you boast.
My brief thought was on a different tangent ( 'tho as I write I think of my self confidence in both the vehicle I'm about to mention & my own erotical equipage ). The slightly war scarred pale blue old 1974 350 SEL Mercedes Benz we were traveling in towards home. It's the smaller v8, only three and a half litres, so way less capacity than say the Chevrolet 010 block v8 I had a long time ago, 4 bolt main bearings, the 010 block is cast in s higher nickel content steel ? has better designed internal "oil galleries" ? with right crank, rods out to 384 ? cubic inches displacement.
I love the Mercedes three and a half litre v8, & mine might have a few kiss ( keeping simple stupid) extra touches. It runs beautifully on liquid petroleum gas, or 98/100 octane petrol. Kiss improvement hints, for readers other than pfskrellin, so no need to go inside the motor..custom headers & exhaust improve gas flows out, wrap in heat insulation to keep exhaust gases hot through first half of exhaust system.
Then consider simple improvements to cold air flow into motor. The 74 350 v8 is already fuel injected & overhead cam as stock, so no pushrods & no carburetor to hold it back from spinning good rpm smoothly.

It was more the solidity of the 1974 SEL as a vehicle. It's vintage is the key, built in 1974, it was about the last of the Mercedes from the age when weight was not seen as a problem, to be minimized, but as a virtue, because oil and petrol were so cheap back when the 74 Mercedes was designed.
The thing is built like a bloomin' panzer tank. The fire breathing MemSahib drives the much less old Mercedes, or I drive her in that one. But the old 74, that's my war chariot, for my use.
Well we had a fun drive out of the city, featuring... No time to continue & no need really.

How's the weight BB. Being over weight can drive hypertension although presumablye it's fine or you'd have mentioned that. Exercise, diet, meditation otherwise I guess

Yea I need to lose weight. Had a bad day today too.

Bro BB i can help you can work out. together bro WE WILL BEAT YOUR BODY.
Yeah jk I'm a small underweight brown boy who is scared of gyms altogether.
PS 7 page essay is nothing (not including bibliography I'm guessing) My history professor made us write a 25 page one, that was hell.
PPS stop drinking buddy I don't want you to die yet

Come on "muchinlovewithPC" Brainbomb, you can do it, you can change, you can succeed, you can enjoy a better life, be a better brainbomb. It will require self discipline and work, but I believe that if you give it a real good effort you will succeed.

Vegetables. And ignoring krellin

PC is still rocking my world. I drew a picture of earth on a napkin for her.

Excellent news "completely Daffy with love for Princess Crystal" Brainbomb.
It sounds like Princess Crystal is the Muse, the inspirational lover an Artist needs. Like Paris and Helen of Troy, like Hannibal Lecter and Agent Starling, or Dracula and his Elizabeth. I never asked much about your "Drawing" and if you do have talent in the drawing and daubing paint caper then enjoy it, work at it, embrace your art bb. Humanity needs it's artists bb, d'ye hear me BB?
Humanity needs YOU brainbomb the Artist. The Army can train any monkeys it gets to use weapons, and presumably the Navy manages to knock the dullards and blockheads it recruits into Sailors of sorts, but Artists are another matter entirely.
You may have the heavy responsibilities of Humanity's need for Artists and what they try to tell Humanity resting on your scrawny shoulders Brainbomb.
So you need your Muse, I do hope Princess Crystal.understands this, her duty to, and the sacred bond.she has with you the Artist.