The leading cause of death in the USA are heart diseases. Almost everybody who has a heart disease started with a high blood pressure that evolved and lead to a more severe condition. High blood pressure is called the silent killer by many because it has no symptoms, it can’t be cured by medication or surgery, and in time it can cause heart attacks or other life-threatening complications.
Diet has an extremely important role in lowering blood pressure, especially because it can be one of its causes since the modern diet that contains a lot of fats and junkfood can lead to a high blood pressure in a few years.
If you are an overweight person then try to lose weight by exercising and cutting down the fatty foods. If you lose weight and stop eating fats you will certainly lower your blood pressure in short time.
The main ingredient that can directly affect blood pressure is sodium. Sodium is needed by the body, but the modern day diets contain twice the amount of sodium that should be absorbed by the body from a normal meal. Doubling the levels of sodium from your body can have serious effects on the blood pressure.
In conclusion the idea is to eat food that has low sodium levels and also to eat less fats. Well what aliments that fit the description above do doctors recommend, and what are the food types that we shouldn’t eat?
First of all you should eat less salt. Salt is a rich source of sodium, if fact salt is made up of sodium and chloride, so only salt alone can be enough to fill the entire normal amount of sodium that the body needs daily.
Then you should start eating a lot of fruits, vegetables, and other fiber-rich foods that have the ability to lower the blood pressure. The most effective are grains, green salad, apples, frozen vegetables, low-fat dairy products, nuts, oranges, bananas, and Italian bread.
Doctors advice those who wish to lower their blood pressure to change their daily diet so that it contains eight servings of grain products, four or five servings of vegetables and fruits, three servings of low-fat dairy products, and only 2 servings of meat or fish per day. Sweets, oil or fats should be avoided. This is the standard high blood pressure diet, also called DASH diet. (Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension).
Least but not last, you need to quit alcohol and smoking. You may respect the DASH diet perfectly, but if you still drink and smoke it can be useless, because alcohol and tobacco smoke are the main enemies of low blood pressure.
AS you can see, diet’s role in blood pressure is very important, and many prefer to treat their hypertension without drugs and other medication, just with the help of the diet.
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Groshan Fabiola
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Can I adjust my diet to lower my blood pressure by staying under Recommended Daily Allowances?
Hello.
I’m 25 years old and I recently had a physical which showed I have "borderline high" blood pressure. It is a genetic condition, but I am trying to fight it without supporting the pharmaceutical companies. My dad is able to control his blood pressure, but he uses expensive prescriptions. I get exercise and I don’t smoke, but my diet could use some tweaking.
I read on Web MD that the most important diet factors are salt, saturated fat, and cholesterol. The RDA for these (according to my milk jug) is about 2400mg/day sodium, 20 g sat. fat, and 250 mg cholesterol. Are these good numbers to stay under in a day, or do I need to be more intense (more like1800 Na, 10 g SF, 100 cholesterol)?
I know that your body needs these things to function, but I dont know how little is too little. Any ideas?
Thanks.
Lower your salt intake. Lose weight.
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most foods have some salts in them, cut out the bad salts like fast foods,soy sauce, adding more on foods, cooking with less salt than you usually do. Get some fruits. Papaya is a fruit from the Caribbean/Mexico region, get some and eat it. It is very good for high blood pressure!!
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There are natural ways to normalize blood pressure. First check with your doctor to find out what the maximum amount of daily sodium intake you are allowed to have. Stay under the limit as low as possible. The doctor will probably have a blood test ordered.
After you hear from the doc, control your sodium intake, drink plenty of water. Don’t drink soda. It is high in caffeine. Limit your coffee to no more than 3 cups per day. Too much caffeine will raise blood pressure.
There are food supplements available to help in normalizing blood pressure. Email me for the name if you want.
Exercise, exercise and exercise. That is very important along with the other ways mentioned.
good luck
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