Hypertension isquite common disease. Today it occurs in about 10% of children and about half of people over 60 years old. More prone to its occurrence of men. They develop the disease much more often than women in the beautiful half of humanity. In addition, it is they who have arterial hypertension occurs somewhat earlier. Naturally, everyone who has this problem wants to lower blood pressure. At the same time, not everyone knows that in the early stages of hypertension, this can be done without taking any medication.
Reduce weight
It is well known that normalizeblood pressure and pulse can be by reducing the weight of your own body (of course, if it is excessive). In the early stages of hypertension, it is this method of treatment that should be the main one for patients with varying degrees of obesity. It has been established that with a decrease in weight of 1 kg, a person can reduce blood pressure by 1 mm of mercury. It would seem that it is not so much, however, losing weight by 10 kg will already allow lowering blood pressure by 10 mm of mercury. In many cases, this will be enough to forget about hypertension. For example, if a person has a blood pressure of 130 to 90, then with a decrease in weight of 10 mm Hg, this indicator stabilizes at a level of 120 to 80 mm of mercury. Today, this indicator is the norm.
Сбрасывать вес нужно рационально.It should not be allowed too sharp drops in body weight, as it is not very positive effect on human health in general. The "gold" standard today is considered to be losing body weight by 1 kg per week. Such rates are considered both quite soft and quite operational, allowing for a few months to have a pronounced effect on blood pressure indicators. In this case, the patient is recommended to change your diet. He is offered to consume less high-carbohydrate carbohydrates, foods rich in starch (especially potatoes), and fatty meats (pork, beef). In the diet must be present a sufficiently large amount of greenery, vegetables. From meat products it is recommended to eat boiled chicken breast. A person is required to eat at least 5 times a day, but in relatively small portions. You should not eat food for 3-4 hours before the expected bedtime. At night, you can pamper yourself with just a cup of kefir.
In order to reduce weight, it is often necessarymull over your lifestyle. The fact is that both increased weight and arterial hypertension are quite frequent companions of physical inactivity. This is due to the fact that without physical exertion, the tone of peripheral vessels may decrease. It is worth noting that with the help of physical exercises to lower blood pressure can be only a little. It should be remembered that during exercise themselves, the pressure in a person will increase, which means that the load on his body must be given consistently, without overloading the untrained body. Over time, this will help lower blood pressure.
