Tips to Control High Blood Pressure Part I---General Approach

2008-08-13T10:33:00.000-07:00

Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against the walls of the arteries as the heart pumps out blood. High blood pressure means raising pressure in your heart.If it stays high over time it can damage the body in many ways.
Blood pressure medications have undoubtedly prevented many deaths from heart disease in the past 30 years, but they have many side effects such as damaging the kidney. If you can control your diet, such as making changes to lifestyle, maintaining ideal weight and diet with low salt, you could do just fine without the drugs.

Here are some natural remedies which will help you to lower high blood pressure, keeping it in the normal range of 130/80.

1. Calcium and Magnesium
A combination of these 2 minerals with the right DOSAGES have a long and undisputable track record for normalizing blood pressure safely. Be sure only taking these compounds with the ratio of 2 to 1. Otherwise, this compound might cause irregular heart beat.

2. Mediterranean diet
A study found that people in Greece and Italy always have ideal blood pressure, because their diet contains more polyunsaturated fat, such as olive oil. If you can replace saturated fat in your diet with extra virgin oil, your could easily normalizing your blood pressure.

3. Reducing Salt intake
Salt is a mineral composed of sodium and chloride. You need only half a tablespoon a day, but we consume many times more than that everyday causing high blood pressure and increasing the risk of early death.
Avoid processed meat, because it has been soaked in salt. Use little Ketchup, mustard, and soy sauce because they contain high amounts of salt.

4. Cigarette
If you smoke, you better quit. The nicotine in cigarettes and other tobacco products causes your blood vessels to constrict and your heart to beat faster, which temporarily raises your blood pressure. If you already have high blood pressure, smoking will raise your blood pressure even higher, causing the risk of heart disease and strokes.

5.Alcohol
Alcohol might cause a temporary raise of blood pressure in some people. If you have high blood pressure, you should reduce your daily intake of alcohol to 1-2 cups. If your blood pressure increases with alcohol, it's best not to drink any alcohol.

6. Relaxation
Stress may affect blood pressure. To help combat the effects of stress, try relaxation techniques, such as yoga, light weight exercise, aerobic exercise, etc.

I hope that the above information will help, we will discuss more on this subject on part II "Tips to control High blood Pressure--With nutrition supplements", if you need more information, please visit:
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Tips to Control High Blood Pressure Part I---General Approach