Healthy diet & Balanced diet:
“The Hypertension Diet”

Salt-free diet to lower hypertension and lose weight.

Hypertension is a serious thing. If you don't receive treatment on time, your risk of myocardial infarction increases. It isn't to scare you, but if you are hypertense, it's important for you to take care of the food you eat with the hypertension diet.


The main causes of hypertension: salt, bad nutrition, physical inactivity, and high blood pressure.

You have to follow a healthy diet, which should include many vegetables. For another hand, avoid food with salt due to its content in sodium, leading cause of hypertension.

Weight loss: 2 lbs per week.
Diet duration: unlimited.

To reduce hypertension, we suggest you to follow this menu.

Hypertension Diet to reduce High Blood Pressure and Lose 2 lbs:

Breakfast:
1 glass of skimmed milk (if possible soy milk) with decaffeinated coffee if desired.
2 toasts (salt-free bread) with olive oil.

Lunch:
2 chicken thighs with garlic.
Grilled artichokes.
1 herbal infusion.

Snack:
1 piece of seasonal fruit.

Dinner:
Vegetables with onion (carrot, potatoes, peas, broccoli)
Grilled hake.
1 piece of seasonal fruit.
1 herbal infusion.

Food banned for hypertension

♥ The salt especially. It's the principal reason of hypertension due to the sodium.
♥ Sausages and cured ham. They have also important levels of sodium.
♥ Tinned food. The content of sodium is very raised in the majority of the conserves.
♥ Pepper and spicy food.
♥ Milk and cured cheeses.
♥ Alcohol. You can take a glass of wine with a lunch, that's all.
♥ Red meat. Eat better white meat and fish.
♥ Coffee. Drink better herbal infusions or decaffeinated coffee.

Food indicated to reduce hypertension

Generally, you have to eat vegetables, nuts and olive oil to reduce hypertension. In addition, your daily diet must be rich in food with potassium, calcium and C vitamin.

Food rich in C vitamin: citrus fruits (lemons, strawberries, oranges, etc.), peppers and carrots. Vitamins relax the arteries that are very tensed.

Food rich in potassium: potatoes, zucchinis, peaches, pears and bananas. The potassium offsets the effects of the sodium.

Food rich in calcium: almonds, tofu, broccoli and vegetables (no lacteal).

The garlic: the garlic has a great influence on the blood torrent.

Garlic to reduce high blood pressure and cholesterol

As notified by the German Federal Agency of Health, the dose of garlic indicated by day is 1 oz (4 grs) of garlic, always raw (the equivalent of 1 garlic clove daily).

Garlic brings high benefits for leveling cholesterol and hypertension. Garlic quickly cleans blood through its active ingredients. Scientific studies from several countries, recommend garlic daily for controlling cholesterol and prevent cardiovascular risk factors.

Natural treatments to reduce hypertension

Following, we show you the best treatment depending the reason of your hypertension.

♥ People with high blood pressure due to sodium excess:
Garlic is the best blood purifier that exists.

♥ People with high pressure due to liquids retention:
The horsetail, is one of the most powerful diuretic to reduce high pressure due to liquid retention (also not produces elimination of essential minerals).

♥ People with high pressure due to stress :
Drink relaxing herbs. The lavender, the tila or the melisa are very good for reduce stress.

Physical activity for hypertense

It's recommends to walk fast and practice aerobic exercises to reduce overweight, oxygenated the body and the brain. Ideally, practice exercises at least 3 times a week, during some 30/40 minutes.

How to know if I have hypertension?

The hypertension does not warn with symptoms, the only way of knowing is to go to the doctor to test you. Except when the tension rises too up, there you can feel it with headaches, motion sicknesses and nose bled.

The half of the 55-year-old women and older, suffer from high blood pressure (value up to 140/90) and can provoke cerebral spillage, renal insufficiency and heart attack.

Before starting a diet, please consult your nutritionist, she help you lose weight in good health.