Things You'll Need:
- A Will to live.
- Dedication
- Commitment
- lots of energy
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Step 1
Excercise helps lower blood pressure, it helps you lose weight in the process while managing stress in your life.
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Step 2
Exercise also strenghens your heart muscle so it can pump blood efficienty, and help lower your heart rate.
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Step 3
Walking, Cycling, and Jogging at least 5 days a week.
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Step 4
Eat lots of fruits and vegetables, grains and less fat in your diet helps also.
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Step 5
Cutting back on Sodium will do us all some good as far as our blood pressure is concerned, Do you know that just 1/2 teaspoon of salt contains 1,200 mg per serving.
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Step 6
Eating lots of Bananas the Potassium in Bananas lower the systolic number by 5 points and the diastolic by 3 points. When I learned how to controlled my blood pressure with what I ate it was a challenge at first, but sone of the things I was already doing anyway, I just paid more attention after I found out what foods were helping.
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Step 7
Eating foods that are rich with fiber.
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Step 8
Cutting caffeine out of your diet, because guess what caffeine raises the blood pressure.
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Step 9
Meditation and Relaxation techniques can help.
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Comments
kofnye said
on 3/31/2009 Thanks. I will try some of these myself to see if they help.
AbbyNormal said
on 10/12/2008 Great article!