Normal weight: Attain and maintain normal body weight. Avoid excess salt in your diet. Other than those 2 tips, there's little you can do except to take medication. If you're opposed to medication, consider this: we're very fortunate that there are many cheap, effective, well tolerated meds available. Much of the extension of life expectancy in the last century has been due to availability of BP meds!
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