Don’t let high blood pressure steal your life or your lifestyle! Control hypertension with changes in your diet. What you put in your mouth has an extreme effect on your blood pressure, how you feel, how much energy you have, and your overall health.
When you make a concerted effort to change your diet, you should see your blood pressure drop, your cholesterol levels improve, and maybe even a few pounds disappear.
Your diet controls your health
Use less salt and drink more water
Start reducing your salt intake immediately and reach a daily limit of 1500 mg. You need salt so make sure you don’t get radical and cut out the salt completely, stick with 1500mg.
Your body needs a minimum of 8 to 8 oz glasses of water every day. Replace soda and other drinks with water. Drink 8 oz. Of water immediately after waking up in the morning and immediately before going to bed.
Increase fruits and vegetables
Stay away from fast foods and as many processed foods as possible. Eating vegetables and fruits every day ensures that you get the nutrients and fiber you need for your body to function properly.
Eat more fiber
Fiber has a definite effect on lowering high blood pressure, and a lack of it causes diabetes and heart failure. Try to eat a minimum of 15g of soluble fiber a day for best results.
Limit the meat
By omitting the meat, you will eliminate the fat and naturally eat more vegetables and fruits. If you eat processed meats for sandwiches, you really should try to eliminate them from your diet. They have too much salt and chemicals harmful to health are added.
Limit sugar
Sugar contains salt in your body that adds to your hypertension and is a poison to your overall health. Eating less sugar becomes easier as you learn to eat healthier overall.
Add potassium
Low potassium levels can have dire effects on your body and your blood pressure, so be sure to consume at least 4,700 mg a day. Do some research and see which foods are high in potassium.
Limit alcohol
Be careful with alcohol. 1 drink a week for women and 2 drinks a week for men can improve your blood pressure and health. At the same time, binge drinking is said to be the second leading cause of preventable death in the United States.
What you put in your mouth is not only to avoid starving, but also to enjoy yourself, and that makes things difficult when you are faced with a change in eating habits. But when you start to have a health mindset, rather than an old eating habits mindset, you will naturally regulate your health by regulating what you eat, and then eating takes on a new dimension.
