Essential food for hypertension patients

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Hypertension is a high incidence in the elderly over 40 years old. About half of the patients with hypertension have family history, which is related to heredity and environment. However, hypertension often coexists with other risk factors of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, threatening human health. Traditional Chinese medicine often emphasizes that "medicine and food have the same origin". If we can strengthen diet management and choose vegetables that can help reduce blood pressure, it will be conducive to disease control and stability. Let's take a look at the following.

Essential food for hypertension patients

First: Celery nutritional efficacy: pharmacological studies have confirmed that celery contains coriander moss, mannitol and other substances, has the effect of reducing blood pressure and blood lipid, and has obvious curative effect on primary, gestational and menopausal hypertension. How to eat: celery can be ground juice, boiled, or fried with chrysanthemum, horseshoe soup, or mixed with other vegetables. Celery, chicken and rabbit.

Second: tomato nutritional efficacy: tomato is the best source of vitamin C, and this vitamin C has been protected by organic acids, it is not easy to be damaged when cooking, and it is easy to be absorbed by the human body. Tomato also contains a large amount of lycopene and other carotenoids, which have the functions of antioxidation, eliminating free radicals, slowing down the formation of atherosclerosis, and so on. It is beneficial to prevent cardiovascular disease and hypertension. Often eat tomato juice has the effect of slowly lowering blood pressure, diuresis, detumescence. How to eat: wash with boiling water before eating to avoid eating bacteria and parasites. Tomatoes should not be eaten on an empty stomach, otherwise it is easy to increase stomach acid, resulting in heartburn, abdominal pain and other symptoms. Tomatoes can be eaten raw, sweet and sour, or fried. Note: avoid eating with cucumber.

Third: the nutritional effect of water chestnut: pharmacological studies have proved that water chestnut has antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, antihypertensive effect. Edible method: water chestnut can be eaten raw, ground juice, soup or fried vegetables. Water chestnut is cold and not easy to digest. If you eat too much, it will cause abdominal distension.

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Kelp nutritional efficacy: kelp is cheap and good, rich in nutrition, is a treasure house of calcium and iron intake. The alginic acid in Laminaria japonica has antihypertensive effect. Kelp contains a lot of unsaturated fatty acids, which can remove the cholesterol attached to the wall of blood vessels; dietary fiber in kelp can regulate the gastrointestinal tract, promote cholesterol excretion and control cholesterol absorption. Kelp calcium also helps to reduce cholesterol absorption, lower blood pressure. Iodide in kelp can accelerate the excretion of pathological changes and inflammatory exudates, reduce blood pressure, prevent arteriosclerosis and promote the excretion of harmful substances. How to eat: kelp can be twisted juice, cold, soup or fried.