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Menus Rich in Potassium
If you need to control your stress levels because you have been diagnosed arterial hypertension will know that you need to modify your diet, small changes, such as reducing salt, drink less animal protein and eating more vegetables, which may make you think that your food will be really boring and tasteless, which is not so.
Here are a few examples of food rich in potassium, low in salt and saturated fat.
Menu 1
* Tomato salad, cucumber and walnuts
* An egg omelette with vegetables
* Yogurt
Menu 2
* Cold cream of pumpkin and carrot
* Grilled squid with leeks and mushrooms
* A handful of nuts and a kiwi
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Potassium In Hypertension
Potassium in hypertension is a recurring theme since the drugs used to control this condition have diuretic effect.
It is important for controlling hypertension and fluid retention on the heart is required to have to pump more blood.
But the intake of diuretics may have adverse effects, which is why their consumption is not recommended without prescription and supervision of a physician. Besides helping to remove accumulated fluid, urine is discarded with more potassium than it should.
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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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Whole Grains In Hypertension
Hypertension is a condition suffered by many people worldwide and is more common in men. We know for sure that diet is crucial in pressure and therefore affects, positively or negatively.
The eating a balanced diet with an adequate supply of potassium and fiber is beneficial.
Whole grains are rich in these substances work together in controlling hypertension, in addition to being effective in preventing cancer, fighting constipation, cardiovascular disease, obesity and diabetes.
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