"Hypertensive diseases" are not only sudden diseases that endanger middle-aged and elderly people, but more and more young people are also harmed by hypertension and gradually tend to develop younger.

There are more and more people with hypertension in the mainland, the age of onset is mainly concentrated in middle-aged people aged 30 to 40 years old, the incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases has exceeded 103 million, and the incidence of men is significantly higher than that of women.

Although the current medical technology has been significantly improved, for the stubborn disease of hypertension, a clear treatment has not yet been found, and only antihypertensive drugs can be used to stabilize the disease.

Why are there more and more people with high blood pressure?

Chinese average salt intake is more than twice the amount recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO).

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends eating less than 5 grams of salt (table salt) per day, and we eat salt per capita 10 per day. 5 grams ,—— which is closely related to an unhealthy diet.

[1] Dietary factors

Nowadays, people's living conditions are gradually improving, the more people like to eat out, and gradually there is a situation of eating and drinking, and they will unconsciously consume more salt, and eating salt is also one of the main culprits of increased blood pressure.

[2] Obesity

According to clinical data statistics, obesity accounts for 30% of about 80% of hypertensive patients, which is due to the fact that obese people will become hypertrophied, which will cause capillaries to expand, increase blood circulation, and increase blood pressure.

[3] Grumpy

There are too many tedious and small things in daily life, and it is inevitable that there will be angry and grumpy, but it is worth noting that you must not be angry regularly, if you are too emotional, it will increase your heart rate and make your blood pressure rise.

[4] Genetic factors

More than half of people with hypertension also have hypertensive diseases in their parents, and after their parents have hypertensive diseases, the probability of their children suffering from hypertensive diseases will gradually increase.

Can people with "high blood pressure" eat sweet potatoes?

"Sweet potato" is also called "sweet potato" especially in the cold winter, eating a roasted sweet potato can warm the whole body, to achieve the purpose of warming up, summer can also eat roasted sweet potato, or make sweet potato into porridge.

As a common coarse grain, sweet potato contains more dietary fiber, coarse fiber, nutritional elements, amino acids, and a variety of nutrients in the body, which should promote the peristalsis of the stomach and intestines and alleviate the symptoms of constipation.

Because the taste of sweet potatoes is sweet and delicious, many people will subtly classify sweet potatoes as high-sweet foods, especially patients with high blood pressure and high blood sugar, and dare not eat sweet potatoes frequently, for fear of affecting the disease.

Is it true that high blood pressure can not eat sweet potatoes? First of all, why are sweet potatoes so sweet? Why do sweet potatoes taste so sweet? Mainly sweet potatoes have dietary fiber in them.

This is the fiber that after entering the human body, it will continue to pass through stomach acid, digest the gastrointestinal digestion, convert into a small amount of glucose substance, and provide it to the islets for normal operation.

The sweetness of the dietary fiber in sweet potatoes has no impact and harm to the human body, and people with high blood pressure can promote their gastrointestinal peristalsis by eating sweet potatoes.

Sweet potatoes have more dietary fiber and coarse fiber, which belongs to coarse grains, which can enhance the body's satiety after ingestion into the human body, and help reduce the intake of oil content.

Therefore, patients with high blood pressure can eat sweet potatoes appropriately, and can also improve their metabolic capacity to a certain extent.

Doctor: What you really can't eat is these 4 things

Tonic: Chicken soup

Especially after the initial recovery of a serious illness, for women who have just given birth, the family will prepare a bowl of chicken soup to nourish the body, because chicken soup belongs to the health and nourishment food can improve the body's immunity and resistance.

Although chicken soup is a tonic food, for patients with high blood pressure, it is not recommended to eat chicken soup regularly, because chicken soup has more oil components and oil content, which will continue to increase the fat content in the body.

When the oil continues to rise, it will also increase the pressure and burden on its own blood vessels, the risk of high blood pressure, high blood lipids, high cholesterol, and the risk of senior or atherosclerosis will also increase.

Liver: sheep liver

Whether it is sheep liver or pig liver, there are more iron components and content in the liver, which can supplement the blood content lacking in the body and reduce the appearance of symptoms of anemia.

Sheep liver has more cholesterol and oil content, its own triglycerides are relatively high, although it is a certain health products, eat more liver can achieve the effect of nourishing qi and nourishing blood.

However, for patients with high blood pressure and high blood lipids, it is necessary to avoid eating sheep liver frequently, because after the intake of foreign liver in the body, it will promote the viscosity of the blood, and it is easy to form problems such as atherosclerosis.

Fried: Fritters

Nowadays, people's breakfast time is becoming more and more urgent, shorter and shorter, and many people will rush to buy a few fritters with soy milk in the morning as a rich breakfast.

Although the fritters are delicious and have a better taste, the fritters are cooked with more cooking oil in the process of making, so the fritters contain more triglycerides and cholesterol content.

For patients with high blood pressure and high blood lipids, as well as chronic diseases, it is not recommended to eat fritters frequently, if you consume more oil content, it will increase the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

Cake category: sweets

Nowadays, small cakes and desserts, as well as cream cakes, are made with more butter, cream, as well as various additives and various flavor ingredients.

Although the taste of sweets is better, it can also improve people's appetite and taste, but regularly eating sweets will make the body continue to consume more sugar and oil content, affecting their own blood pressure and blood lipid levels.

If you eat sweets regularly, you will make people obese in a short period of time, and will also hinder their own blood circulation, which is not conducive to the stability of blood pressure and lipid levels.

Read further – what should be the daily salt intake for people with high blood pressure?

We all know that the Chinese dietary guidelines recommend that normal adults should not consume more than 6 grams of salt per day.

So for patients with high blood pressure, how much salt content should be consumed per day?

For patients with hypertension, it is recommended that the daily intake of salt should not exceed about 5 grams, and there should be strict control.

In daily life, we must pay more attention to avoid the high intake of salt, such as monosodium glutamate, chicken essence, soy sauce and other condiments with high oxygen content. #爱乐养生 #