Question 1

what food for high blood pressure?

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Avoid salt: Best to avoid salt in your food/meals as a good first attempt at lowering your blood pressure. Learn to read nutrition labels and search for "sodium" which you should keep less than 2, 000mg/d. Also look for foods high in potassium and magnesium (rather than sodium) as some studies suggest that higher levels of both are associated w/better outcomes. This usually entails eating lots of fruits & vegg.

Question 2

what food is best to lower high blood pressure?

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A few things to...: Keeping ideal body weight, eat healthy/no added salt, aerobic exercise regularly 4-5x/wk, reduce daily stresses, sleep well, and don't smoke etc..These are so called modifiable risk factor--you can't change genetic. Look up the dash-diet regimen (google it). Treat medical condition (chol, diabetes etc) well.If these fail to adequately lower your  BP to less than 140/90, consult your doc..Good luck.

Question 3

what kind of food can lower high blood pressure?

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Food for HTN: Great question: optimal diet is DASH Diet:  low salt, low saturated fat, low cholesterol, 8 servings of colored fruit and vegetables daily, pomegranates, tomato, kiwi, spinach, kale, whole grains and low animal protein (4 - 5 oz per day of very lean meat, fish, poultry only). Don't smoke. Drink 3 liters fluid per day. Minimize caffeine.  Look up DASH Diet.

Question 4

what are some foods that help with lowering  high blood pressure?

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Avoid carbs, salt: You may want to avoid any food with significant salt.  Otherwise, any diet you follow resulting in significant weight loss will lower your blood pressure toward healthier levels. Its lees important what you eat and more important that you eat less of it.  Avoid carbohydrates as much as possible.  Eating regularly, one can never become carb deficient.

Question 5

which types of foods (besides salty ones) cause high blood pressure?

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Blood pressure: Besides sodium, a low potassium diet, drinking lots of cola drinks, high licqorice containg foods  smoking  all these come into play besides others.

Question 6

can spicy food cause high blood pressure?

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No, watch the salt: Many types of cuisine that are spicy are also very high in sodium.  For most people, an occasional meal at an ethnic restaurant is not an issue.  However, a diet that is consistently high in sodium may be a contributing factor to high blood pressure.

Question 7

what natural food/ remedy is good to control high blood pressure?

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Low salt: Grape fruit has been touted by some to reduce blood pressure.  Magnesium can relax the arteries and reduce blood pressure.  But most imporant is dash diet with low salt intake.

Question 8

what to do if i have high blood pressure, should i eat salt free food?

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Good start: that would be a great start, low salt diet, cut out alcohol, exercise, weight loss, all good lifestyle changes one can make prior to starting pharmacotherapy.  Good luck.

Question 9

what kind of food can you eat while on propranolol for high blood pressure?

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Any: You should be eating a cardiovascularly sound diet but the propranolol doesn't have much to do with it.

Question 10

can i still put salt on my food if i have been diagnosed with high blood pressure?

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Salt restriction.: Most doctors would recommend salt restriction as a way to help with blood pressure but in reality only one in 10 people will have a significant reduction in blood pressure with salt restriction. It is always worth a try though. Try no added salt to begin with. You can use about half the amount called for in recipes.

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