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What to eat with hypertension?

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Hypertensive diet: The best diet is dash diet which includes, limited salt intake tonot more than 2300 mgms a day, low in saturated fat and total fat, include fruits and vegetables, whole grain products.Fish, poultry and nuts.Reduce total added sugars, sugar containing beverages.The diet is rich in pottasium, magnesium and calcium.

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Answered 11/2/2015

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