4 diet tips to manage hypertension

Make these changes in your diet to regulate your blood pressure.

By Shriya Sinha Published on: February 12, 2019 2:43 pm

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Your lifestyle habits and surrounding environment is responsible for your health. Factors like sedentary lifestyle, excessive consumption of salt, high blood cholesterol and poor dietary habits causes your blood pressure to abnormally rise and results in Hypertension. Unmanaged hypertension can lead to a stroke and other heart diseases. To monitor the occurrence of the condition one needs to constantly monitor their systolic and diastolic levels. It is advised to eat a healthy diet and active lifestyle that regulates your blood pressure and reduces cholesterol levels. Here we list down a few things that you should follow to bring about a healthy change that combats hypertension for you.

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Eat food rich in potassium: Potassium helps to regulate effectively high sodium levels in your body. Five servings of fresh fruits and vegetables are important to get the daily required intake of potassium. Foods like broccoli, oranges, celery, avocados, mushroom, and sweet potato are great sources of potassium. Bananas are an excellent all-season fruit that you can simply add in your smoothies to consume the daily intake of potassium.

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