I have a friend who has high blood pressure. He, like everyone else, is reluctant to take medicine.
At that time, his blood pressure did not reach 160 / 100, that is, grade 1 hypertension. I said that we should try diet control first. After three months of diet control, now the blood pressure is about 140 / 90. Although it is not completely normal, it has dropped a lot. I believe that if we continue to adhere to it, we should be able to return to normal.
He is not the first person to control the blood pressure drop through diet. I have seen many patients. Through healthy diet, smoking and alcohol cessation, insisting on exercise, regular work and rest, weight control and other comprehensive healthy life, blood pressure finally returned to normal.
Of course, diet control plays an important role in controlling blood pressure!
Studies have shown that for most hypertensive people, smoking cessation, healthy diet, reducing salt and sugar intake, increasing potassium and fiber intake, strengthening aerobic exercise and losing weight can reduce blood pressure. It can reduce systolic and diastolic blood pressure by 10 mmHg and 8 mmHg respectively, which is equivalent to a antihypertensive drug.
It is clear that for hypertensive people, the most important thing is to reduce salt. At the same time, increasing food with high potassium salt and high dietary fiber will definitely help to control blood pressure.
The influence of diet on blood pressure is bidirectional. First of all, eating more salt will raise blood pressure, so we should control sodium salt; at the same time, more potassium salt and dietary fiber can lower blood pressure, so we should encourage more potassium salt and dietary fiber.
1、 Low salt limit is very important
Excessive sodium salt can lead to high blood pressure, especially for high blood pressure people in our country. Research shows that every 3 g less sodium salt is likely to reduce blood pressure by 4-5 mmHg. Most people eat more than 10-12g of sodium salt, which is much higher than that of healthy people who eat less than 6G per day, so reducing salt is very important.
In addition to low salt diet, it also emphasizes low oil, low sugar and low fine grain. Although these diets will not directly lead to blood pressure increase, high fat and greasy sweets and excessive fine grains will increase the risk of hyperlipidemia, diabetes and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Hypertension is closely related to hyperlipidemia, diabetes and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. In addition to low sodium salt, low oil, low sugar and low grain are also required 。
2、 High potassium and high dietary fiber
High potassium diet can resist the harm of high sodium diet. Studies have shown that effective supplement of potassium in diet can help to control blood pressure to a certain extent, and even reduce blood pressure. According to the American high blood pressure diet, each person should be given 4.7mg potassium every day.
Dietary fiber has a very important physiological function, which is recognized as the seventh kind of nutrients by the nutrition circle, and is in parallel with the traditional six kinds of nutrients -- protein, fat, carbohydrate, vitamins, minerals and water.
With the improvement of living standards, the intake of dietary fiber is significantly reduced, which leads to many metabolic diseases, such as obesity, diabetes, hyperlipidemia and so on. Proper dietary fiber can help us control weight, control blood fat and blood sugar, improve constipation and other benefits.
3、 What is the specific food?
First of all, we must make it clear that if you don't eat a certain kind of food, your blood pressure will drop, such as celery and onion, which is nonsense. Reducing salt in diet requires a long-term healthy diet, low sodium salt, high potassium salt and high dietary fiber, together with other healthy lifestyle, can play a real role in reducing blood pressure. Instead of eating 1 jin celery today, I will have high blood pressure tomorrow!
List of foods containing potassium
In other words, in daily life, many foods contain potassium salt. We don't need to remember a specific kind of food. We just need to put less salt when cooking. We should eat all kinds of food, and the more kinds of food, the better.
Cereals are mainly coarse grains, mainly providing carbohydrate, protein, dietary fiber, B vitamins and minerals; vegetables and fruits are important sources of potassium, vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber and phytochemicals. Potato is rich in starch, dietary fiber, vitamins and minerals. It plays an important role in maintaining health, maintaining normal intestinal function, improving immunity, and reducing the risk of chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes and hypertension. According to the Chinese dietary guidelines, Chinese adults are recommended to eat 6 Liang to 1 jin of vegetables and 4 to 8 taels of fruits every day, and pay attention to increase the number of potato foods.
In a word, for hypertensive friends, we just need to remember to eat less salt and eat a variety of foods, especially with coarse grains, more fruits and vegetables, fish, nuts, etc.; the more varieties, the better. Try to eat more than 12 kinds of food every day and more than 25 kinds of food every week. Such a long-term diet, with exercise, away from alcohol and tobacco, regular work and rest, it will be able to effectively control hypertension. Even equivalent to a piece of antihypertensive drugs.
For some mild hypertension, through a healthy diet, no medication, eventually hypertension can return to normal.
