In recent years, more and more people have developed hypertension, and almost one in every three adults is hypertensive.
Once suffering from hypertension, although there is no very obvious discomfort in daily life, the blood vessel wall continues to suffer from excessive pressure, which will damage the heart, brain, kidney, eye and other organs, so that kidney function is reduced, vision is reduced, coronary heart disease, cerebral thrombosis, etc., and sudden death will occur in severe cases.
While there is no one-percent guarantee against high blood pressure, good lifestyle habits can help us stay as away from high blood pressure as possible.
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Stay away from the culprits
Everyone knows that eating too much salt will increase the risk of high blood pressure, so many people think that eating salt is the culprit that causes hypertension, usually eating less salt can be, but in fact, the real culprit of hypertension is not salt, it is sodium in edible salt.
Sodium in edible salt is just the tip of the iceberg, in addition to table salt, foods with high sodium content include:
Pickled foods: they are all made of salt and have a very high sodium content.
Dried tomatoes: 100g of dried tomatoes contain up to 2095mg of dried sodium.
Snack: 100g of pretzel biscuits contain 1715mg of sodium.
Cheese: 100g of cheese contains about 1700mg of sodium.
Sea Crab: A Leg of Alaskan King Crab containing 1436 mg of sodium.
Baking powder, baking soda: 1 tablespoon of baking soda containing 1368 mg of sodium; 1 teaspoon of baking powder, containing 530 mg of sodium.
Soup packet: One serving of 5g of soup, which contains about 1200mg of sodium.
Sausage, bacon, bacon: 20g beef jerky has a sodium content of 443mg.
Salad dressing, soy sauce: The sodium content of one spoonful of soy sauce is 335mg.
Yeast: about 6 g of yeast contains sodium up to 216 mg.
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Keep exercising
Away from high blood pressure must pay attention to exercise, studies have shown that daily physical exercise, not only can increase energy consumption, adjust the body's energy balance, prevent obesity, but also can promote cardiovascular function, enhance myocardial contractility, reduce blood vessel tension, but also make blood triglycerides and blood viscosity decrease, which has an important role in preventing the occurrence of hypertension.
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Reasonable meals
To prevent hypertensive diseases, we should start with diet, especially attention should be paid to calcium and potassium supplementation.
In life, you should eat more vegetables and fruits, reduce fat intake, maintain vegetable oil-based edible oil, and reduce fatty meat or meat foods with more saturated fat, so as not to increase weight rapidly and increase the incidence of high blood pressure.