Arterial hypertension is a fairly common disease. Today it occurs in about 10% of children and about half of people whose age exceeds 60 years. Men are more susceptible to its occurrence. They have this disease develops much more often than representatives of the fair half of humanity. In addition, it is in them that arterial hypertension occurs earlier. Naturally, everyone who has this problem wants to lower their blood pressure. Moreover, not everyone knows that in the first stages of hypertension this can be done without taking any medications.
Weight loss
It is reliably known that blood pressure and pulse can be normalized by reducing the mass of one's own body (of course, if it is excessive). In the early stages of hypertension, this particular treatment technique should become the main one for patients with one degree or another of obesity. It has been established that with a decrease in weight of 1 kg a person can reduce blood pressure by 1 mmHg. It would seem that this is not so much, but losing 10 kg will already allow lowering blood pressure by 10 mmHg. In many cases, this will prove to be sufficient to forget about hypertension. For example, if a person has a blood pressure of 130 to 90, then with a decrease in weight of 10 mm Hg, this indicator stabilizes at 120 to 80 mm Hg. Today, this indicator is the norm.
You need to lose weight rationally. You should not allow too sharp drops in body weight, as this does not have a very beneficial effect on human health in general. Today, the “gold” standard is a decrease in body weight of 1 kg per week. Such rates are considered at the same time both fairly mild and quite operational, allowing for a few months to have a pronounced effect on blood pressure. In this case, the patient is recommended to change his diet. He is offered to consume less quickly digestible carbohydrates, foods rich in starch (especially potatoes), fatty meat (pork, beef). A sufficiently large amount of greens and vegetables must be present in the diet. Of meat products, it is recommended to use boiled chicken breast. A person is prescribed to eat at least 5 times a day, but in relatively small portions. In this case, you should not eat food 3-4 hours before the expected retirement. At night you can treat yourself only with a glass of kefir.
In order to lose weight, you often have to think about your lifestyle. The fact is that both increased weight and hypertension are quite frequent companions of physical inactivity. This is due to the fact that without physical exertion, the tone of peripheral vessels may decrease. It is worth noting that with the help of physical exercises you can only lower blood pressure a little. It should be remembered that during the physical exercises themselves, the pressure in a person will increase, which means that the load on his body must be given consistently, without overworking the untrained body. Over time, this will help lower your blood pressure.