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Avoid Hypertention
But if in your particular case you should avoid salt because you suffer from hypertension, looks at the amount of other options you have to season your dishes, and in a natural and healthy:
- First, fresh herbs are excellent ‘flavors’: the parsley and basil are two big ’stars’ in this objective to flavor meals. The garlic and finely chopped onions are also good, nutritious alternatives.
- The lemon, refreshing for summer, refreshing fragrance and good nutritional value (vitamin C, but also in group B and minerals such as potassium, magnesium and calcium, among others), not only can be used for salad dressings and food fresh, but also to flavor, such as rice.
- Spices and dried herbs such as saffron, cumin, cinnamon, dill and tarragon, bay leaf, fennel, paprika, pepper, thyme, rosemary, oregano, sage, mustard, mint and many others.
Finally, remember that the daily sodium need is limited, at least one is required, 6 grams of this mineral, which is equivalent to about 4 grams of salt. The World Health Organization, meanwhile, recommends consuming no more than about 6 grams of salt per day, that is, something like a teaspoon and a half flush.
Hypertension & Type of herbs
Hypertension is the disease most commonly associated with excess sodium. Given that a greater or lesser extent all foods contain salt, people who have the disease and those that seek to reduce sodium levels in blood for one reason or another, have an ally in that we can find low-sodium salt on the market.
This recipe for low sodium salt of herbs is a way to bring a special touch to foods seasoned with this type of salt, thus providing more flavor, reduce the consumption of this ingredient. It can also produce iodized salt, sea salt or any other, however low sodium salt gives a hint of citrus, very rich.
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Steps to Keep Blood Pressure
Fortunately, there are a number of things you can do to help maintain healthy blood pressure. You can do everything yourself:
- Maintain a healthy diet rich in fruits and vegetables.
- Watch the labels on foods and keep cholesterol low by reducing fat and salt.
- Practice yoga and meditation to maintain a calm mind and body.
- Drink 6-8 glasses of water a day to wash the toxins from your system.
- Use of natural supplements to lower blood pressure.
- Reduce the amount of caffeine you consume.
If you feel as if you have problems with this kind, it is important to do something. If you are a person who favors conventional medicine, you want to see your doctor for a check of blood pressure. If your rate is high, the doctor may want you to take prescription drugs.
Hypertension is a Silent Killer
Hypertension is a silent killer that kills a very quiet person, many times without even knowing it. Heart failure, heart attack, kidney infection, eye damage and vision loss can be considered in patients with hypertension. To avoid these complications, the patient must do more frequent blood pressure check-ups. BP must be checked at least once a week and monitoring the treatment accordingly.
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Hypertension Damages
The new result opens the door to other preventive strategies
Lacunar strokes are small strokes that occur in deeper brain structures and, generally, they cause no symptoms. Although they may go unnoticed, these disorders do have consequences, and that its development has been associated with cognitive and start of dementia. An Australian research has shown that hypertension is a major risk factor for its appearance, thus opening the door to preventive strategies.
The authors of this paper, published in the journal Neurology, they wanted to analyze the prevalence of such strokes common in elderly people, and the various factors that may contribute to its onset. To do this, followed up for four years to a sample of 477 people aged between 60 and 64 years.
At the beginning of the investigation, and other general medical evaluations, each participant underwent an MRI, an imaging technique that can detect the disorder. At that time, a total of 37 patients, 7.8% of the sample-had little damage to his brain caused by a lacunar stroke.
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