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Hypertension Treatment with Diet

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Hypertension Treatment with Diet

Salt restriction and weight reduction

The excess salt in the diet causes fluid retention and increased BP. To lower the TA, the first step is to reduce total salt intake (including that contained in the bread, broth concentrates, prepared foods, etc..) To a smaller amount of a teaspoon a day.

The daily requirement of salt are about half a gram a day (half teaspoon), but in a normal Western diet is consumed eight times that amount, not only in salt shaker, but also snacks, cheeses, cold cuts, condiments, soups envelope.

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Keys to Control Salt Consumption

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Reduce Salt

Excessive consumption of salt can become a real problem for those suffering from hypertension and after so notable dates such as Christmas, even those who do not have high blood pressure we have more treacherous after heavy and tasty meals at all hours.

If you’re determined to reduce salt in your meals here are some simple tips to make you easier.

1. Get rid of your salt shaker table. Use a large pot and open only to add a little salt while cooking.

2. To take the salt of the buttons do not use your hands, not measured either. Better a small one teaspoon to display the amount you add. In this case mejos missing!

3. Go reducing the salt you used to use in different dishes. At first you seem dull but in the end, and I say this from experience, you’ll appreciate much more the flavor of each food, for it is soft.

4. Try not to buy pre-cooked food and food that you buy that contain fewer additives the better. 75% of the salt we eat comes from processed foods to which salt is added for flavor.
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All About Hypertension

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

We speak of hypertension when the maximum stress is greater than
140 mmHg and the minimum voltage is greater than 90 mmHg.

The ideal is to make prevention before symptoms appear or
arterial lesions affecting the heart, kidneys, brain, eyes, etc..

Avoid: Salt = Sodium

Food Not Recommended:
Dietary salt with sodium
Preserves
Packaged Foods
Cold cuts, sausages, pickles
Beer
Soups and canned soups
Baking powder
Artificial sweeteners sodium

Controlled Food Use:
Milk and yogurt
Cheese (even the low sodium)
Meat and eggs
Vegetables high in sodium
Breads and bakery
Cream

Food Allowed:
Cereals and flours
Vegetables
Dry pasta
Fruit
Tubers
Plants with strict selection
Oils
Sugar, honey, homemade jams
Herbs
Tea, light mate

We recommend
Homemade.
Do not abuse the egg whites.
Flavored with garlic, pepper, cumin, cloves, dill,
saffron, rosemary, herbs, vinegar, lemon, mustard powder.
Procedures for cooking: roasted, steam, cooking with fruit.
Book foods with more flavor to the final.

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Hypertension And Salt

Friday, February 19th, 2010

hypertension and salt

Only when the hypertension is not very severe, you can allow the use of special salts in the diet of hypertensive patients. Within the range of salts suitable for hypertension have the common salts that occur in specific amounts, modified salts with less sodium and dietary, have no sodium.

Here is a to once every type:

  • Common Sales: sales can be commercial or homemade.

Natrium: pills that are sold in pharmacies as medicine. Blister of aspirin are used to measure the amount of salt that we use on each plate. The filled blister equals 1 gram of salt.

  • Sales changed: they are commercially made (with trademarks). Its particularity is that they have low sodium content, ranging from 60 to 70% less than common salts. The specificity of these salts is modified to be added to the dishes once prepared and not during cooking.
  • Sales diet: are those that contain no sodium and are produced using ammonium chloride and potassium chloride. These salts can not eat people with kidney or liver problems for the content of chlorides. Like its predecessors, are added to the dishes already prepared, because if you add in cooking leaves a nasty taste of metal.
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