High Blood Pressure: How to Reduce Your Risk Through Nutrition

Do you or does someone in your family have high blood pressure? If so, you're not alone; according to the WHO Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1994, at least one in four adults is in the same situation.

High blood pressure is associated with:

Ø     increased risk of cardiovascular disease,

Ø     congestive heart failure,

Ø     peripheral vascular (blood vessel) disease, and

Ø     renal (kidney) insufficiency.

There are no specific symptoms of high blood pressure, so prevention is highly recommended!

 
One of the most dangerous aspects of (high blood pressure) hypertension is that you may not know that you have it! Nearly one-third of people who have hypertension don't know it; however, there are signs of extremely high blood pressure which you should be on look-out for.

Here, you will learn the roles of diet (i.e. DASH diet) in controlling/preventing high blood pressure.

Also, we will learn about the best alternative introduced in from of herbs – vegetables, roots, natural elements required by our bodies, thus:

The Role of Diet in

High Blood Pressure