Blood Pressure Diet
Controlling High Blood Pressure Is The Easiest Thing To Do
Look into the
mirror. Do not see only your face. Look at your entire figure. There
lies your future. How long do you think your body can go on accepting
all that you stuff in, without applying any thought, just because
your taste-buds like it? Do you know that overweight people have a
higher chance of suffering from a stroke? Do you check your weight at
regular intervals?
When you saw the weighing machine marking a fat
gain of 16 pounds within a period of two months, why did you simply
ignore it? It should have shocked you into action. The least you can
do is find out what your weight is now and what your weight should
be!
You need to be careful about what you eat as it is directly and
proportionately related to your blood pressure. I agree that 'one has
to be true to the salt,' but this does not hold true for you. You
have to cut down on your intake of salt drastically, before your
doctor tells you - no more salt! Avoid salty, and fried food. Adopt a
diet low in saturated fat.
Two local remedies well known, to control high blood pressure are
butter milk and lemon. Take butter milk regularly. It is good for
both - low as well as high blood pressure. Lemon peel is also equally
effective in high blood pressure. A shredded lemon peel may be added
to soups and stews or sprinkled over your salads.
And tell me, have you stopped drinking or are you still
contemplating the decision? If you have already made that decision,
then let me congratulate you. But, if you think that you can not do
it all at once, reduce the intake of alcohol. Just take a drink a
day.
If you are already under the watchful care of
your family doctor, please follow their instructions sincerely. Let
there be no holidays for the medicine and please keep sufficient
stock in advance. If your doctor has called you this Sunday for a
check up, then make sure that you reach there this Sunday itself and
not, the next Monday.
Also, the doctor must have given you certain
indications about the schedule of exercise that is necessary for you,
such as, morning walk, light stretching exercises or light aerobics.
Follow the schedule strictly. Your doctor treats hundreds of patients
like you everyday. He has more practical wisdom about high blood
pressure, than you. Go as per his advice and understand his
treatments.
Regular check up of blood pressure is a must. You need to have
such an arrangement at your home. Charts of your regular checkups
will help your doctor tremendously in treating you. Let all the
members of your family, your wife, and your children go for the check
up, along with you, even if they do not have this ailment.
If you are taking basic precautions like controlling your diet and
doing proper exercises - keep aside all imaginary worries and live a
normal, relaxed life!