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Daily Habits that Can Help Lower Blood Pressure

Daily Habits that Can Help Lower Blood Pressure

Daily Habits that Can Help Lower Blood Pressure

Appropriate lifestyle modifications are fundamental steps to help lower your blood pressure. Whether you are hypertensive, prehypertensive or on the normal blood pressure range, these daily habits can reduce your risks of getting hypertension. Not only that, you might delay, avoid or reduce the need of hypertension medications:

Get moving

Exercise is effective in lowering your blood pressure. Thirty minutes a day, five times a week is the optimum exercise recommended by the American Heart Association to improve overall cardiovascular health. You may think that you don’t have time for it but it’s actually much easier than you think! Make a habit to talk and walk. Your friend wants to catch up with you? Have a walk around the park while chit chatting. Need to make work calls? Walk around in the office while talking.

Even if you spend most of your time in your workplace, there are lots of opportunities to be more active. Park your car farther away from your office so that you can walk more. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Take the stairs when you can, even if just for a floor or two. And don’t just ride the escalator in the mall, climb it like stairs.

But the most effective means of reducing elevated blood pressure is to lose weight. Significant blood pressure reductions were observed in populations with an average weight loss of more than 5 kg. According to a study in The Journal of Hypertension, weight reduction of 5.1 kg can reduce the systolic blood pressure by 4.44 mm Hg and diastolic blood pressure by 3.57 mm Hg. So, if all these exercises are too mediocre for you, why not opt for a much heavier one and try to lose weight along the way.

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Avoid smoking and smoking area

You definitely need to quit smoking to help lower blood pressure. You can start slowly and limit the number of your cigarette smoke per day. Likewise, if you are not smoking, avoid being in the smoking area to reduce exposure to secondhand smoke. Significantly higher blood pressure values were observed in children of smoking parents based on a study in Iran. A study in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology also reported an increase in blood pressure in young adult male exposed to just an hour of passive smokes.

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Read food labels

Eliminate high-sodium foods in your daily diet by reading labels carefully. Some common foods may contain more sodium than you think of, such as the ‘salty six’ listed by American Heart Association which include bread, cured meats, pizza, poultry, soup and sandwiches.

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Cook your own meal

It is much easier to control your diet if you are cooking your own meal. When foods are cook industrially, it needs to be made into shelf stable. The fibre will be taken out as more chemicals, salt, fat, and sugar are used. The most important thing about your diet is using the right ingredients used to prepare your food. Make it a habit to cook your own meal than eating out.

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Eat more vegetables and fruits

Dietary fibre, potassium, magnesium, and antioxidant vitamins are abundant in vegetables and fruits. Therefore, diets higher in fruits and vegetables may reduce the risk of developing hypertension. A study reported that higher intake of fruit is associated with a lower risk of future hypertension and boost overall heart health.

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Relax and chill

Stress will constrict your blood vessels which may lead to temporary spikes in blood pressure, but over time can also trigger unhealthy habits that put your cardiovascular health at risk. These might include overeating, poor sleep, consuming alcohol and smoking. So, instead of worrying about the little things, why not take a step back and relax. Learn to let go and take control of what you can control of.

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