If you open a doctor's reference book, you can read in black and white: only 10—20% of the causes of hypertension are known to mankind, among them mainly diseases of the internal organs.
In all the remaining 80% of cases, the authors indicate essential hypertension or, more simply, excessive salt intake as the root cause. It turns out that if you increase the frequency of the appearance of pickles on the plate, then you will not have to take pressure-reducing pills later.
And if you do adjust the nutrition for hypertension, then you won’t need pills to reduce pressure at all, I’m sure & nbsp; rheumatologist, author of many medical bestsellers (among them «Be Healthy in Our Country») Pavel Evdokimenko.
Excessive consumption of baking soda guarantees hypertension
— Pavel Valerievich, how much salt should you eat daily?
— No more than 5 g per day. This — 1 tsp, no more. One has only to exceed this amount — and hypertension is guaranteed even if you take blood pressure pills all the time.
One day a young man came to me with severe hypertension. It turned out that he got married a couple of years ago. The mother-in-law cooked perfectly, and the wife tried to pamper her husband with something tasty, more precisely, salty. The salt family ate unthinkable amounts. And it was necessary to reduce the intake of salts so that in two weeks the young man got rid of hypertension, which by that time he had suffered for two years.
— Maybe you should switch to a salt-free diet?
— Dietary salt in moderation is necessary to maintain water-salt metabolism. Therefore 3—5g of salt should be in the diet. But not more! Only those who are over 70 years old can not adhere to this rule: the body at this age loses a lot of salt and needs to be replenished. And everyone else will have to limit the consumption of pickles and salt-containing foods to once a week.
Edible salt contains:
- sausages and smoked meats;
- salted and smoked cheeses;
- sauces with preservatives.
— How to count 5 g when preparing a family dinner?
— Do not salt. Have everyone do this on their own plate. By the way, less edible salt will be required: it will not have time to completely dissolve, as in the preparation of the same borscht.
Nutrition for hypertension: give preference to cereals and vegetables
— Which vitamin deficiency can cause hypertension?
— First of all, potassium and magnesium. This is especially unfortunate, since their loss is accelerated by the use of many tablets for lowering blood pressurepressure, which have a diuretic effect. To compensate for the deficiency of these vitamins (primarily potassium, which is necessary for the functioning of the heart), potassium-containing foods will help.
Potassium content:
* most — in potatoes (baked), peas, sea kale, dried fruits;
* enough — meat, fish, vegetables (tomatoes, beets, green onions), fruits (apricots, peaches);
* slightly smaller than — in poultry meat, buckwheat and millet, pumpkin, pears, plums.
— What diet should be followed by patients with hypertension?
— Milk-vegetarian. Its name speaks for itself: the diet should be dominated by vegetables, and in any form, fruits, berries. Be sure to cereals and low-fat dairy products. You can enjoy boiled chicken, but first you need to cut off all the fat from it.
Nutrition for hypertension excludes:
- meat and fish of fatty varieties:
- smoked delicacies, spicy foods;
- confectionery sweets, flour products.
A glass of water instead of a blood pressure pill
— Do I need to drink 2 l of water daily, as nutritionists advise?
— No, that's how you can make money water poisoning. But, unfortunately, most hypertensive patients drink little water. And this means that the kidneys are not cleansed enough and cannot remove toxins and other decay products from the body.
— Many people like to drink a few cups of tea at night…
— …and as a result increase the burden on the kidneys. Instead of resting at night, they begin to work hard. As a result — high blood pressure in the morning.
Alcohol taken "on the chest" has the same effect. in the evening.
- If you want to drink something stronger than tea, do it no later than 18—19h.
— What about coffee? He's a strong stimulant.
— One cup of coffee a day will not greatly affect the pressure. But if you drink several cups of strong brewed coffee every day, you may develop "coffee hypertension" over time.
- If you drink a lot of coffee and complain of high blood pressure, give up this drink for a couple of days. Watch how the pressure changes. If it decreases, then the reason was coffee. And it needs to be reduced. If it has not changed, then you need to look for the reason in something else.
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