Diet plan to manage high BP – Ms. Sushma Jaiswal

Blood pressure or hypertension is a silent killer and it can go unnoticed if you don’t check it regularly and it can be dangerous. So diet recommendation would be to lower down your salt, sodium, alcohol, caffeine and to increase potassium, calcium, and magnesium. So the recommendation would be having whole cereals and legumes, fibre rich food which reduces weight to some extent. Having lean meat, low fat curd and meat products and having more fruits and vegetables including sprouts some dry fruits because some of the dry fruits are rich in vitamin E and others are rich in omega 3 fatty acids like walnuts and flax seeds. You have to do exercise as well. People who are having high BP should restrict their salt like 1 gram to 1.5 grams a day. Foods which are high in sodium or salt content or some of the commercial foods like pizzas, salty biscuits, cheese, pickles and chips etc. So if you restrict all of them it would be very much helpful because adding cheese and pickles to healthy food also will make sodium high. If you are taking alcohol on a regular basis then it affects the absorption of some medications effectively. Caffeine increases your blood pressure. So you have to restrict to only one cup a day or completely give up. Follow all these diet restrictions and be healthy. Having BP cervical yoga postures will help. There are few yoga postures which help in relieving the neck pain. There are few yoga poses which help in reducing the weight like kapalbhati. They would help in relieving the symptoms of high BP also. There are different therapies for anxiety. By treating the deficiencies and having a very healthy diet will help in all three conditions. So nutrition can be used as alternative therapy for all these conditions by dealing with the deficiencies. So you follow a very healthy diet and stay healthy.

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