High Blood Pressure Diet

Lifestyle Changes That Can Help Lower Your High Blood Pressure 

The medically recommended high blood pressure diet is based more around lifestyle changes than actually eating certain foods to help lower your high blood pressure. However, there are certain foods that are good for hypertension and heart disease that you should eat in your daily diet. Their are also supplements you can take that will reduce your high blood pressure significantly, more on that later.

Lifestyle Changes to Reduce High Blood Pressure

On the high blood pressure diet, cut down your alcohol consumption. People that drink over two drinks per day of alcohol have shown an increased risk of one and a half to two times the risk of developing high blood pressure. It is even more noticeable when a person consumes over five drinks per day. It has definitely been proven this is all dose related, the more you drink, the higher your risk of getting hypertension.

According to medical authorities, smoking increases the risk of developing high blood pressure, but for those that already have it, it is not associated with an increase in pressure levels. Smoking does cause an immediate temporary increase of 5 to 10mm hg in a persons blood pressure reading. However, those that are steady smokers can have a lower pressure than those that don't. The reason it can be lower is, smoking causes a decrease in a persons appetite so they generally weigh less than those that don't smoke.

On the high blood pressure diet, cut down your coffee consumption. Drinking five cups or more of coffee a day can cause a mild rise in blood pressure in elderly people that already have hypertension, but not in those people that don't. The combination of smoking and drinking raises pressure levels even higher than just coffee alone.

The American Heart Association recommends you limit your salt intake, I agree. Medical literature is filled with evidence of the harmful effects that result from the over consumption of this product. Chemical additives that make table salt free flowing, sparkly white and iodized further increase the potential for harmful effects from this type of salt. In its natural form salt is not sparkly white or free flowing. Salt that is unrefined has a pinkish or grayish tint because the minerals have not been removed. As it turns out, refined salt is produced primarily for the chemical industry, since sodium chloride is a necessary ingredient for the processing of many chemicals. Only 4% of the refined salt produced is diverted to the food industry. It is made for the chemical industry - NOT people!

Table salt can cause the body to retain water, which can cause swelling, edema, and cellulite. 1 ounce of ingested salt holds 3 quarts of water or 6 pounds of excess bodily water and fluids. Table salt also comes with additives such as aluminum hydroxide, sodium ferro cyanide, calcium phosphate, stearic acid and others. Some of these can be toxic. When ingested the body recognizes table salt as a poison and accumulates water in and around the cells to protect them from this invading substance.

Once refined, table salt is energetically dead and the body needs to use its own life force to somehow assimilate this substance. Energetically, dead sodium is abundant around cancer cells. It is also inferior for building stable bones and teeth.  There is a good salt to use that provides all 84 minerals that the human body needs and it is not processed poison like sodium chloride. You can find out more about it here.

Obesity is common in hypertensive patients. Being overweight increases the work load on the heart and the amount of blood it has to pump to take care of the excess body weight. The obese seem to have an increased stiffness and hardness in their peripheral arteries and this increases high blood pressure.

Exercise, especially aerobics, have been shown to drop blood pressure levels buy 5 to 15 mm hg. Please consult your doctor before starting an exercise program if you have high blood pressure.

One of the best things you can do on the natural cure for high blood pressure diet is eat vegetables and fruits that are high in natural ascorbates. Granted today's foods are severely depleted of nutrients, it will still help. More about this on the Cause and Natural Cure page.

Natural Cure for High Blood Pressure