Hyptertension (high blood pressure) is a serious illness. What you eat, and if you’re overweight, going on a diet, can be helpful. Many people find that their blood pressure goes down as they lose weight.
Hypertension is a measure of the blood’s pressure or force against the arteries’ walls as it flows out of the heart and into the body parts and extremities.
Dieting for hypertension
The easiest change to make is to limit salt intake. The dietary recommendation for daily sodium intake is 1,100 to 3,300 mg per day. People with seriously high blood pressure may want to reduce their sodium even more. Foods that are high in sodium include canned soups and vegetables, processed meats, snack foods such as potato chips and pretzels and many other things like this. Eliminating these foods and added table salt in the diet will have an effect on hypertension.
At the same time that salt is eliminated you should increase the potassium intake. The potassium should be increased by eating foods that are rich in potassium rather that by taking a potassium supplement if possible. Foods that are rich in potassium include oranges, bananas, potatoes and many other fruits and vegetables.
The DASH Diet for hypertension
The DASH Diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) was a study done to see what how diet effected hypertension. Through this study the American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society has recommended changes to the American diet that will help prevent hypertension and many other serious health issues.
The Dash diet tells people what to eat to have a healthy life style. The diet focuses on increased fruits, vegetables, complex carbohydrates and low fat dairy. By eating these foods a person will automatically cut their sodium intake and increase their potassium intake. The person will also see improvement in their cholesterol levels.
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