Diet can help improve blood pressure, especially if blood pressure is not yet being treated by medication. Learn more about the appropriate diet for hypertension in this nutrition video.
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Trying to lower blood pressure and live a healthier life doesn’t mean that we’ll have to be stuck with bland and tasteless food. Nutritionist Ellie Krieger, author of “So Easy: Luscious Healthy Recipes for Every Meal of the Week,” shares with the people over at MSNBC a couple of recipes that frankly look really good and taste even better than they look (which is hard to do already!) With a few tweaks and adjustments, you can also make every meal of every day tasty and healthy.
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http://cybermedicinestore.com/what-are-some-natural-high-blood-pressure-remedies/ First and foremost you need to stop smoking if you havent already. Not only will this help keep your blood pressure in line, youll also diminish your chance of cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Smoking is the primary risk factor for atherosclerosis. Smoking hurts blood vessel walls and accelerates the action of hardening of the arterial blood vessels. So even though it does not stimulate high blood pressure, smoking is bad for anyone, particularly those with high blood pressure. If you smoke, discontinue. If you dont smoke, dont start. Once you quit, your chance of having a heart attack is reduced after the first year. What are some additional natural high blood pressure remedies?
Trim Your Weight
Heavy patients should lose weight.Theres a direct link between being overweight and having high blood pressure. The more overweight you are, the greater the risk. Start out by making moderate changes. Cut two hundred to three hundred calories from your dieting each day — about the equivalent of stating no to two deep chocolate cookies.
Decrease Salt Consumption
High salt ingestion is connected to high blood pressure. You should consume no more than 2,000 milligrams of sodium per day (about one teaspoon of salt). The common American devours twice that, often through canned soups, frozen dinners, soy sauce, pickles, olives and processed cheeses, which are high with sodium. Read food tags and pick out reduced-sodium products. Seek to select food with low salt.
More Fruits and Vegetables
Add more fruits, vegetables and low-fat dairy products to your plate. Eat one additional fruit or vegetable with every meal. Reduce the size of your daily meat intake to six ounces, and designate at the least two dinners a week as meat-free. Fatty diets do not directly affect blood pressure. However, saturated fats and cholesterol in foods raise blood cholesterol, which increases the risk for heart disease. Foods high in fats also are high in calories, which must be decreased if you want to lose weight. As with the example of smoking, high cholestrol is likewise a major risk factor for atherosclerosis.
Limit Alcohol Consumption
Drink no more than one 12-ounce beer, one 5-ounce glass of wine or one swallow (1.5 ounces) of 80-proof whiskey if youre a woman. Men can double these measures. Anything more elevates blood pressure. You can reduce your blood pressure by 5-10 mmHg by just limiting alcohol intake.
Exercise, Exercise, Exercise
First and foremost, get the ok from your physician. Afterwards, slowly familiarize aerobic exercise into your life, increasing the time and intensity at a pace that feels right, aiming for at least a thirty-minute workout most days of the week. Youthful people should jog for thirty minutes three times per week and older patients should walk farther lengths than usual.
Diminish Stress and Anxiety
Stress and anxiety also play a role in high blood pressure. If you need your blood pressure with in normal limits, try to get happy all times. Its not that difficult is it? Try extra curricular activities to make your mind stress free. Stress can make blood pressure go up for a while, and it has been considered to contribute to high blood pressure. However, the long-term outcomes of stress are as yet unclear. Stress management techniques do not appear to forestall high blood pressure. However, such techniques may have other benefits, such as making you feel more acceptable or helping you to moderate over-eating.
Caffeine and Blood Pressure
Caffeine in coffee as well as in other drinks, such as tea and sodas, only enhances blood pressure temporarily. You should be able to go on to have drinks that contain caffeine, unless you are restricted to it or have heart disease and your doctor orders you not to have any.
Eat adequate amounts of potassium-rich foods
Potassium which is another mineral important to good health, works together with sodium to regulate blood pressure. Studies have shown that people who consume more potassium have lower blood pressures than those who ingest less. Robust sources of potassium include many fruits, such as cantaloupe, bananas, watermelon, oranges and orange juice, as well as potatoes, spinach, and zucchini.
Listed above is just the tip of the iceberg for finding high blood pressure remedies. Let these suggestions get you on the right path to either lower or eliminate high blood pressure altogether.
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HLN’s Susan Hendricks looks at a new study that says cutting out sugary drinks can lower your blood pressure.
Drinking Fewer Sugar-Sweetened Beverages May Lower Blood Pressure
ScienceDaily (May 25, 2010) — Drinking fewer sugar-sweetened beverages — a leading source of added sugar in the U.S. diet — may lower blood pressure, according to research published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Increased consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) has been associated with an elevated risk of obesity, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes, according to previous research. However, the effect of sugar-sweetened beverages on blood pressure is uncertain, said lead author Liwei Chen, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor at Louisiana State University Health Science Center School of Public Health in New Orleans, La.
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“Our findings suggest that reducing sugar-sweetened beverages and sugar consumption may be an important dietary strategy to lower blood pressure and further reduce other blood pressure-related diseases,” Chen said. “It has been estimated that a 3-millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) reduction in systolic blood pressure should reduce stroke mortality by 8 percent and coronary heart disease mortality by 5 percent. Such reductions in systolic blood pressure would be anticipated by reducing sugar-sweetened beverages consumption by an average of 2 servings per day.”
Researchers used data on 810 adults, ages 25 to 79, with prehypertension (between 120/80 and 139/89 mm Hg) and stage I hypertension (between 140/90 and 159/99 mm Hg ) who participated in the PREMIER study, an 18-month behavioral intervention study with a focus on weight loss, exercise, and a healthy diet as a means to prevent and control high blood pressure. At the start of the study, the participants drank an average 10.5 fluid ounces of SSB/day, equivalent to just under one serving. At the study’s conclusion, average consumption had fallen by half a serving/day and both systolic blood pressure (the pressure when the heart beats), and diastolic blood pressure, (the pressure between beats), had declined significantly.
After controlling for known risk factors of blood pressure, the analysis found that a reduction of one serving/day of SSB was associated with a 1.8 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) drop in systolic pressure and a 1.1 mm Hg decline in diastolic pressure over 18 months. Researchers noted that this association was partially because of weight loss, but even after controlling for weight loss, the change in blood pressure was statistically significant.
Chen noted that American adults consume an average of 2.3 servings (28 ounces) of sugar-sweetened beverages per day. In this study, sugar-sweetened beverages were defined as drinks sweetened with sugar or high-fructose corn syrup including regular soft drinks, fruit drinks, lemonade and fruit punch.
Diet drinks were excluded. The study potentially has important public health implications, because even small reductions in blood pressure are projected to have substantial health benefits on a population level, according to Chen.
“Although this study was conducted among mostly overweight adults and many with hypertension, we believe that others will benefit by reducing the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages,” she said.
“However, such evidence from humans is lacking, and we plan to conduct such research among non-hypertensive individuals.”
Researchers say further study — particularly randomized controlled trials to establish any cause and effect relationship — is warranted.
Co-authors are Benjamin Caballero, M.D., Ph.D.; Diane C. Mitchell, M.S. R.D.; Catherine Loria, Ph.D.; Pao-Hwa Lin, Ph.D.; Catherine M. Champagne, Ph.D., R.D.; Patricia J. Elmer, Ph.D.; Jamy D. Ard, M.D.; Bryan C. Batc; Cheryl A. M. Anderson, Ph.D., M.P.H. and Lawrence J. Appel M.D., M.P.H. Individual author disclosures can be found on the manuscript.
The PREMIER trial was supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. The present study is supported in part from the School of Public Health, Louisiana State University Health Science Center and from the Center for Human Nutrition, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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