A blood pressure diet plan is not significantly different from any other good, healthy diet plan. A diet that is good for your blood pressure will also be good for your blood sugar, cholesterol and triglycerides. Certainly eating well usually results in feeling well. So, without further ado, let’s go eat for great health.
Any changes you make in your diet or exercise plan should be done with the good graces of your family doctor. He/she will know things about your health I wouldn’t know. For instance, one of the things a good blood pressure diet consists of is skim milk. However, you could be lactose intolerant and therefore unable to consume this product. Perhaps, you are taking a medication that something in this diet would interfere with. This is why a medical professional should approve of this diet for you.
Hi, High Fiber
A healthy blood pressure diet consists of whole grains and high fiber. One such a product is a 100% bran cereal. This should be eaten for several meals, perhaps 4 to 6, per week. It should be eaten with skim milk or perhaps sugar-free soy milk.
Pasta can also be bought in whole grain or blend varieties. These pastas are much better for you than the high starch pastas we used to eat. Eating whole grain pasta with plain or at least meat free spaghetti sauce would make for a very healthy, low-calorie meal. This is, of course, if you eat a normal serving.
Bye, Starches and Fats
White bread should be avoided. It should be replaced with 100% stone ground wheat bread. This is a high-fiber variety of bread and is much better for you. By the same token you shouldn’t butter the bread with high fat butter. However, there are soft butter substitutes that come in so-called tubs and are made from yogurt which make for a great substitute.
Eating beans, whether white, black, soybeans or lima beans are also a must on a blood pressure lowering diet. Beans are high potassium foods and potassium helps maintain healthy sodium levels. This is important when trying to gain optimum health.
Another high potassium food is the potato. The best way to prepare a potato is to bake it and eat it skin and all. Of course, filling it with cream or butter will make it a high-fat meal. A good trick is to take it with a no fat no-calorie salad dressing. This may add some sodium to the meal but it will not be significant unless the potato is drenched in the dressing.
Finally, instead of eating two or three meals a day, you should eat four or five. Eating five meals of 350 calories each will be much better for you than eating one meal of 1750 calories. Basically these are some of the things you can use to replace some of the other things you used to eat. Stay away from heavy alcohol consumption and stay away from fast foods and you will find this change will make a very healthy blood pressure diet.
Jason Falson once lived with blood pressure of 210/130 but now has normal BP readings. He has credited his remarkable recovery to following a few simple rules. Of course, one of these rules is following his doctor’s orders. His Website, Blood Pressure Symptoms discusses overcoming high diastolic blood pressure. Also, learn more about the connection between hypertension and anxiety and how to control your anxiety at Dealing with Anxiety
