Diet For High Blood Pressure Improves Your Quality Of Life

2007-03-08 10:33:40

( Health )



Hypertension, or high blood pressure, refers to high levels of pressure within your arteries (the vessels carrying blood and oxygen from your heart to your body tissues and organs). Recently, health authorities have lowered the threshold that used to define hypertension.

You may have to make early modifications in lifestyle to lower hypertension risks. One change you can make would be to design your diet for high blood pressure prevention. Stated another way, you must adopt a diet for high cholesterol avoidance. There are extensive studies that show promising results for those who modify their diets.

One suggested diet for high blood pressure would include high intakes of fruits and vegetables (at least 4 servings a day) and whole grains (7 servings a day), only 2-3 servings a day of fish, poultry or meat, lower intakes of low fat foods, limited consumption of sweets and sugar beverages, and moderate intake of nuts, legumes and seeds at 4-5 servings weekly.

Another suggested diet for high blood pressure reduction recommends that you follow the diet mentioned above and add restrictions on consumption of sodium (which is found in the salt you use). You should not add salt to food and stay away from prepared foods which have high contents of salt, sugar and fat. You could try to limit salt intake to at most 3.3 grams per day; the lower your intake, the better for you.

You should particularly avoid refined sugar and highly saturated fats. Your diet for high blood pressure should include foods rich in potassium (like bananas, dates, raisins and potatoes), calcium and magnesium.

Make it a point to avoid the nutritionally empty fast-foods so common in today's on-the-go culture. In short, you should eat only nutritious foods.

The simple choices that you make in your diet and lifestyle can make a powerful difference in your quality of life.


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