This type of hypertension suffer 20% of hypertensives and the most important cause of disease or appearance is a health situation that favors development.

Among the risk factors for secondary hypertension are:

• Toxemia in pregnancy, ie the emergence of high pressure in pregnant women with no medical history of hypertension in your family.

• Stress is another factor that can lead to secondary hypertension, as well as workaholism and hyperactivity.

• Self-medication with steroids or oral contraceptives without medical supervision.

• Renal disease and hypothyroidism.

In all these factors we see a common factor as in primary hypertension: a person suffering from diseases that are not treated with a balanced diet and regular physical activity is exposed not only to develop the disease, but they suffer high blood pressure increases the risk of stroke.

Also any type of hypertension involves not only medication and diet restricted in sodium, but a positive attitude by the patient to this condition which is directly related to the nervous condition of the person.

If you’re around 40, you smoke, clouds stress and eat poorly, it’s time to stop the car a bit of your metabolism and begin to think about your diet and your health.

This is the most vulnerable age for the onset of hypertension, ie, the pressure exerted by blood on the walls of arteries. High blood pressure is a risk factor for having a heart attack or stroke, so we must start early to avoid some symptoms.

It is true that some people are predisposed to having high blood pressure or inherited specific physical conditions, but the advance of hypertension can be controlled or prevented (in people without bias) with these simple tips:

• Have the proper weight: avoid high-fat diet and gradually start to eat low-fat products and more fruits and vegetables. Being in the right weight causes the body to make less effort to stand.
• Reducing salt in foods and choose low salt products. Reduce consumption of cured meats, preserves, pickles or reduces the amount eaten per week. Remember that 3 grams of salt is what our body needs.
• Replace salt with garlic, spices and dressings to spice up the dishes or consuming industrial salts that you recommend a nutritionist or doctor.
• Perform daily physical exercise at least 30 minutes a day combined exercise or walk, best if you do a sport like swimming. This is to help maintain your weight and blood circulation.
• Drink alcohol in moderation, the better the wine, which is the noblest spirit: remember no more than 2 drinks per day.

The Christmas menu for hypertension must be tasty without salt. How is this done? Using herbs, spices, salt without sodium, appropriate condiments and ingenuity.

But it must also be low in saturated fat, moderate or no alcohol and lots just for not overeating.

If you want to keep your health and your family take note of the food choices that fit today I have selected, so you can build the menu over Christmas and enjoy.

Sample Christmas menu for hypertensive:

Appetizer (options):

• Light Salmon Terrine
• squid tentacles Provencal
• grilled vegetable kabobs

First courses (options):

• Tower of vegetables with spinach sauce
• unsalted chicken Arrollado

Main course (options):

• Turkey stuffed
• Baked fish with vegetables
• Baked or grilled meat with vegetables

Desserts:

Fruit with ice cream, Christmas tree, fruit cake or fruit salad.
Typical Christmas sweets provided moderately.