Hypertension has become a common disease courtesy today's lifestyle and stressors. It can be a major cause in increasing the risk of heart strokes.
High blood pressure is a frightening disease because it has few symptoms that increases the risk of heart disease or stroke. Hypertension has become a common disease, but a huge number of people are suffering from high blood pressure but they do not know about it. If you are the one among the high blood pressure patients, then this is for you.
Here is a list of few items to keep at bay if you have ‘Hypertension’:
1. Avoid sugar and salt
In today world, to survive without sugar and salt is almost impossible. But people, these two taste enhancers are major factors in hypertension. We are not asking you to eat tasteless food for the rest of your life. All we are asking is to limit the intake of these two substances. Our bodies need sugar to function properly, but most of it should come from sources like whole fruit rather than candy or even juice.
2. Packaged and processed meats
Packaged meats like hot dogs rely on sodium to preserve the product for a long time. So not only are you getting food loaded with salt and preservatives but you are sacrificing the health benefits of eating fresh food. So you should go in for buying meet straight from a butcher to get a fresh product that hasn’t been soaked in a giant basin of saltwater.
3. Candy
You all must be knowing that candy is nothing but sugar and empty calories. Sweet tooth! You need train your taste buds to find satiety in the natural sugars contained in whole fruit, if you want to get your hypertension under control.
4. Soft Drinks
Just one soda per day can push you over your daily recommended limit of added sugars. Also, while caffeinated soda boosts your energy and liveliness upon consumption, that feeling is very short lived and leaves you even worse off after the inevitable sugar crash. So next time you binge upon them, give it another thought.