Dietary guidance for hypertension

summary

In the prevention and treatment of hypertension, both western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine attach great importance to the diet therapy of hypertension. Patients with hypertension should pay more attention to reasonable diet and control blood pressure through diet. High blood pressure dietotherapy is mainly through the consumption of food, on blood vessels, blood, fat metabolism, to achieve the effect of lowering blood pressure. Therefore, patients with hypertension in the choice of food, you can choose those conducive to dredge blood vessels, promote metabolism of food. Now let's take a look at what high blood pressure eat.

Dietary guidance for hypertension

Hypertension diet principle: hypertension diet treatment principle: high vitamin, high cellulose, high calcium, low fat, low cholesterol, low salt diet; diet treatment of hypertension patients, is to reduce sodium salt, reduce dietary fat and add an appropriate amount of high-quality protein, pay attention to supplement calcium and potassium, eat more vegetables and fruits, quit smoking and drinking, scientific drinking water as the principle.

Hypertension diet: 1, three meals: diet should be a small number of meals, to avoid overeating; 2, low salt: everyone should eat 2-5 grams of salt per day, that is, about a spoonful. 3. High potassium: food rich in potassium into the human body can resist the pressor and vascular damage caused by sodium, can often "appear" in the diet. 5. Fruits and vegetables: the body needs vitamin B and vitamin C every day, which can be met by eating more fresh vegetables and fruits. 6. Calcium: should eat more calcium rich foods, such as soybeans, sunflower seeds, walnuts, milk, peanuts, fish and shrimp, red dates, fresh potherb mustard, garlic, laver and so on.

Food with certain therapeutic effect on hypertension: ① leaf vegetables: celery, chrysanthemum, amaranth, shancai, leek, daylily, water chestnut, spinach, etc.; ② rhizomes: Zizania latifolia, asparagus, radish, carrot, water chestnut, Horseshoe; ③ melons and fruits: watermelon, wax gourd, tomato, hawthorn, lemon, banana, fruit, red jujube, mulberry, eggplant;

matters needing attention

Food is not salty: limit salt. The daily salt intake of healthy adults should not exceed 6 grams, including the amount of salt intake through soy sauce, pickles, monosodium glutamate and other condiments. Food is not sweet: limit sugar. High sugar food is mainly rice, noodles, cakes and so on. Our staple food should be thick and thin, such as corn, millet, beans, buckwheat, potato and so on. It's better not to eat or less oil cake, fried dough sticks, fried cake, cream cake, chocolate, milk ice cream, etc.