Best Home Remedies for High Blood Pressure

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Best Home Remedies for High Blood Pressure

• ByS.vijay Sudarsanam

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Introduction

• High blood pressure is also known as hypertension
  which is a sign that the heart and blood vessels
  are being over-worked. It is a severe health
  problem which can lead to heart attacks, strokes
  and kidney failure.
• A reading of 140/90 mm Hg or above is considered
  to be high blood pressure. It has no signs, and
  you can identify this by doing a regular blood
  checkup.

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Factors causing high blood pressure

• Smoking
• Overweight or obesity
• Taking too much salt in your diet
• Regular consumption of alcohol
• Genetics
• Age
• Stress
• Family history

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Prevention of High Blood Pressure

• Losing weight
• Getting regular exercise
• Following a healthy diet
• Stop smoking
• Limit the amount of salt
• Cutting down on caffeine

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Top 6 home remedies to bring down high blood
pressure

• 1. Regular Physical Activity
• To lower your high blood pressure, doing regular
  exercise is one of the best thing. It makes your
  heart stronger and pumps more blood with fewer
  efforts. Also, it improves your heart health.
• According to the National Walkers Health
  Study,  doing more exercise reduces your high
  blood pressure.

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• 2. Reduce your salt intake
• Too much salt in your diet increases your blood
  pressure and it results in high blood pressure,
  and causes other problems such as heart disease
  and atherosclerosis.
• According to American Heart Association, eating
  high salt food or using too much table salt
  raises blood pressure or hypertension. Experts
  suggest cutting down of sodium intake to no more
  than 1500 mg per day would be an effective way to
  prevent or lower your high blood pressure.
• So include more fresh fruits and vegetables in
  your diet instead of eating more processed or
  refined foods.

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• 5. Eat potassium rich foods
• Potassium is an essential mineral for proper body
  functioning. It helps you out from the adverse
  effects of salt and controls your blood pressure
  level. So focus on eating more fruits and
  vegetables which are rich in potassium.
• Limit alchohal

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