Video Email You can inform your family, friends, and coworkers about high blood pressure via video email. In minutes, you can create a video email that encourages family members, friends, and coworkers to prevent or control high blood pressure. Your Guide to Lowering Blood Pressure can be used to get facts about high blood pressure. You can use these facts in your video email. Your creativity and personal appeal are sure to motivate video recipients to get their blood pressure checked. How to create a video email You will need equipment that records video and audio, such as a: webcam, camera phone, digital camera, or email service with video capability. Using your equipment's instructions, record a video about National High Blood Pressure Education Month. Save the video as a file on your computer or in your online video email account. Add the video to your email messages as an attachment. Sample script "Good morning/afternoon. May is National High Blood Pressure Education Month. High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a condition that causes the heart to pump harder than it should to get blood to all parts of your body. It is known as the "silent killer" because it often has no symptoms. Nearly a third of the people who have high blood pressure are unaware they have it until a heart attack or stroke occurs. The good news is that it's preventable! You can prevent high blood pressure by making lifestyle changes such as lowering salt and sodium intake, being physically active, maintaining a healthy weight, and talking to your doctor. If you want more information about high blood pressure, read Your Guide to Lowering High Blood Pressure at http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/hbp/hbp_low/index.htm. |
