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How to Lower High Blood Pressure Naturally

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Lower High Blood Pressure Naturally
Lower High Blood Pressure Naturally
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Difficulty: Moderately Challenging
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • A Will to live.
  • Dedication
  • Commitment
  • lots of energy
  1. Step 1
     

    Excercise helps lower blood pressure, it helps you lose weight in the process while managing stress in your life.

  2. Step 2
     

    Exercise also strenghens your heart muscle so it can pump blood efficienty, and help lower your heart rate.

  3. Step 3
     

    Walking, Cycling, and Jogging at least 5 days a week.

  4. Step 4
     

    Eat lots of fruits and vegetables, grains and less fat in your diet helps also.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. Step 7
     

    Eating foods that are rich with fiber.

  8. Step 8
     

    Cutting caffeine out of your diet, because guess what caffeine raises the blood pressure.

  9. Step 9
     

    Meditation and Relaxation techniques can help.
    Yoga
    Tai Chi

Tips & Warnings
  • Eating healthier takes time

Comments  

kofnye said

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on 3/31/2009 Thanks. I will try some of these myself to see if they help.

AbbyNormal said

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on 10/12/2008 Great article!

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