Blood Pressure

 Print This Post

• If you have a normal BP, you should know how to keep it low.
• If you have pre-hypertension, you should understand how to prevent it from becoming hypertension.
• If you have hypertension, you should learn how to bring it down.

In other words, you need a BP management plan, not a pill!

94.     The mildly or moderately high BP, which has not developed any serious complications, is best suited for the non-drug means involving relatively straight forward changes to your diet and lifestyle. If the patient is already on drugs for lowering BP, even then naturo-food therapy will reduce the intake of drugs or eliminate them completely. Time and patience is the key to this therapy.

95.     However hard you find it to make the necessary changes, it really is worth making an effort because, if you are successful, your blood pressure may return to normal without the need for further drug treatment. There are several simple but effective strategies described below, which can help you to keep your BP in check and really make a difference to your life.

Adopt Naturo-Food Diet

96.     Diet plays a very important role in regulating BP. For most people, the first step to lowering BP is to cut down on heavy salted, fat-rich processed and refined starchy foods and all so called junk foods. Meat, especially red, and eggs should also be avoided as they cause the BP to rise more than any other foods. Replace coffee, tea and cold drinks with herbal tea, fruit juices or home-made drinks like lassi, sattu and lemon water.

97.     The next step should be to adopt a wholefood diet based on fruits and vegetables, wholegrain cereals, brown rice, beans, fish and chicken. Include plenty of fibre in you diet.

98.     To control hypertension, the American National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s “Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension” (DASH) also recommends cutting down on salt, saturated fats, trans fats and total fat, alcohol and cholesterol. DASH also encourages to eat lot more fruits and vegetables, wholegrain cereals, brown rice, soluble fibre-rich proteins from plant sources and poultry and low-fat dairy products.