There are a few things. First, even simple exercise can cause your blood pressure to elevate. Why? Because blood moves around your system faster during exercise and so the pressure rises. But exercise is actually good for lowering your long term blood pressure. We don't know exactly why but it might make the arterial walls more flexible.
Anything that causes the blood vessels to narrow will increase the pressure within them (think of gripping a flexible hose pipe between your fingers and imagine what happens to the flow of water). One of the major factors in determining the width of your blood vessels is your mineral balance and chiefly your sodium to potassium mineral balance.
Getting more sodium in your diet (e.g. eating more processed foods with added salt) is not bad per se, but because it is not usually accompanied by a proportional increase in potassium (e.g. from fruits and vegetables) then it normally leads to narrow blood vessels and therefore increased blood pressure. This partly explains the huge differences in long term health outcome between a balanced diet and a terrible diet and is one reason why losing weight with a healthier diet (as is usually the case) can help you to lower your blood pressure.
Stress can also cause your blood pressure to elevate. The "fight or flight" stress response is actually an evolutionary instinct that has saved many lives over the last few million years. But today, we suffer stress due to modern problems and often while sitting down and with no way to get rid of the stress hormones that continue to circulate around our body and wreak damage, including giving rise to higher blood pressure. These stress hormones used to be gotten rid of when we or animals made our escape from dangerous situations. So stress is only useful if your life is in immediate danger. If it isn't, then stress is only damaging. You must get rid of stress in your life if you want to live a long and healthy life.
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